26/07/2026
Ocean Plate with Bubble-Wrap Fish 🌊🐠✨
Over the past two weeks, the children in Orchard Nursery have been busy creating their beautiful Ocean Plate with Bubble-Wrap Fish artwork.
The children began by painting their paper plates blue to create an ocean background. They explored different shades of blue, used big brush strokes, and talked about how their marks looked like moving water.
Next, the children used bubble wrap to create colourful printed patterns. They dabbed paint onto the bubble wrap, pressed the paper down, and lifted it carefully to reveal their wonderful textured prints. Once dry, these prints were turned into fish and added to their ocean scenes.
The children then added seaweed, sand, shells, and other underwater details to bring their rock pool and ocean plates to life. They used lots of fine motor skills as they painted, printed, cut, glued, arranged, and decorated their work.
This project supported the children’s creativity, fine motor control, ocean vocabulary, communication and language, and understanding of different materials and textures.
What beautiful underwater worlds our Orchard Nursery artists have created! 🌊🐠✨
