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Coral Reef Play Dough Activity

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My kids find coral reefs fascinating. The colors, the creatures, the activity, they can sit and read, watch or explore this theme for hours. After reading some books recently about life in a coral reef we set up this play dough activity for the girls to act out their own coral reef adventures.

Coral Reef Play Dough Activity

Coral Reef Play Dough Activity for Kids

Get a full week of ocean theme or coral reef theme lesson plans.

Materials

Coral Reef Play Dough Materials

Usually we make our own play dough but we received a set of Play-Doh from some friends recently that was perfect of this activity, so we put it to good use.

    • Store bought Play-Doh or homemade play dough made from a recipe in The Homemade Play Dough Recipe Book
    • Coral Reef Toob
    • Aquarium jewels and pebbles
    • Neon chenille stems cut into halves and quarters


Building playdoh coral reef

Both girls started by creating a small separate space for their individual coral reefs.

Coral Reef made from play dough

They spent time decorating their reefs, adding creatures, coral, shells and more.

Coral Reef art

Once they added all the details they wanted the story telling and pretend play began.  Their creatures swam from coral reef to coral reef visiting one another and making new friends.

mini coral reef

This is a great play dough invitation to set up at home or school during an ocean or summer theme. For more play dough inspiration, you can find all of our play dough invitations here.

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Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

CORAL REEF THEME LESSON PLANS

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Preschool Coral Reef Theme Lesson Plans

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Get a Full Week of Ocean Theme Learning and Play

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) Shark Dice Game (color and black/white)
2) Whale Dice Game (color and black/white)
3) Starfish Sorting and Patterning Cards
4) Ocean Letter Matching Puzzles
5) Ocean Life Number Cards 0 to 35
6) Ocean Family Counting Sets for Numbers 1-10
7) Sea Life Cards (for counting, patterning, and sorting)
8) Ocean Roll and Graph Game
9) Sea Life Word Building Cards
10) Sea Life Syllable Sort Activity

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Preschool Ocean Theme Lesson Plans

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