Jellyfish Bead Craft
A cardboard jellyfish with pipe cleaner tentacles strung with matching colored beads. Color sorting hidden in a craft.
🧒 Ages 3-5, 6-8⏱ 25 min🌊 Ocean life🐾 Animals
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How to do it
- 1
Draw the jellyfish body on cardboard.
- 2
Attach colored pipe cleaners to the bottom as tentacles.
- 3
Have the kid string beads onto each tentacle to match its color.
Tips & extensions
Save leftover pipe cleaners and beads for similar threading activities.
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