If you need a quick and fun activity this easy paper bag jellyfish art project is for you! This ocean themed jellyfish project is great for kids between the ages of 2 and 8 both at home and in the classroom! It helps kids work on their fine motor skills and it can be used for an educational opportunity!
Paper bag jellyfish art
Making these paper bag jellyfish is really easy! Setting up this art project takes little to no time, and all that is required are a paper bag, a string or pipe cleaner, markers and scissors. To make it a little bit more fun you can always add googly eyes, streamers, yarn, or any other materials as well.
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This fun ocean art project is an amazing opportunity for kids to develop their fine motor skills with cutting the lines for the tentacles. Paper bag jellyfish are a great introduction to using scissors if it is your kids first time using scissors too! Kids loved creating their own jellyfish decorations and they learned a lot about the ocean while making this art.
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Materials needed for paper bag jellyfish
Instructions to create a paper bag jellyfish art project
First: Create the tentacles
First we need to cut the tentacles of the jellyfish. To make it easier, draw some lines from the opening of the paper bag all the way to the fold near the end of the paper bag. Cut down each line from the opening of the paper bag to the fold. Don’t cut past the fold or the jellyfish may fall apart!
Next: Decorate the jellyfish
Now draw the head of the jellyfish, color it, and add some googly eyes! If you want you can also glue on streamers, yarn, other pipe cleaners, buttons, sequences and more to make it extra fun!
Finally: Hang it up!
The last part to this project is poking a hole at the top back side of the jellyfish and adding a string or pipe cleaner through the hole so you can hang it up on a wall or the ceiling! This part may need to be completed by an adult.
OUr paper bag jellyfish art projects!
This is what our paper bag jellyfish art project look like! The kids had so much fun creating these and even more fun playing with them. While making these art projects we talked about different kinds of jellyfish, their lives in the ocean and more! One kid asked me a really good question too; “Why are jellyfish called jellyfish when they aren’t actually fish?” I thought this was a great question!
Active Time
15 minutes
Total Time
15 minutes
Difficulty
easy
Estimated Cost
$0
Materials
- – Paper bags
- – Googly eyes (optional)
- – String or pipe cleaners
Instructions
- Draw and cut lines from the opening of the paper bag to the crease.
- Decorate the paper bag to look like a jellyfish and add googly eyes
- Poke a hole through the top back side of the jellyfish and add string or a pipe cleaner to hang it up!
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Do you know why they are called jellyfish? Let us know the answer in the comments below!
