Free I Spy Ocean Printable (Sea Creatures)
Grab this free I spy ocean printable and incorporate the beach and ocean into learning for young children, including preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Learning about the ocean can be such a fun activity for young kids! With these free printables, kids can practice number recognition, learn about sea animals, and work on language skills.
I Spy games are a fun way for kids to work on counting, visual discrimination, fine motor skills, new vocabulary, and just learning about marine life.
They’re not only a great activity for classrooms, but also for summer break, a beach trip, road trips, or even a rainy day activity!
What Is I Spy And I Spy Printables?
I Spy is a fun game where one player in a small group chooses an object within sight and tells the other players that “I spy with my little eye something ______.” Other players attempt to guess what they spy.
These worksheets are just a version of that game. These free printables allow children to find thematic objects on the sheet itself, count them, and then color them according to the color key.
They’re a combination of traditional I Spy games and a color by number activity. For other color by number worksheets see our Back to School and Fall ones.
I Spy Ocean Printable
This printable worksheet encourages kids to count how many different ocean animals there are, such as dolphins, crabs, cute jellyfish, and more. At the bottom of the worksheet, it shows how many of each animal there is to find.
Once they’ve counted all the sea life, they can use it as a coloring page. It even comes with an answer key, which makes it handy if you want to make multiple copies for lots of kids, or the classroom.
You can also use them once or laminate them for repeated use! Or make a book out of them and you’ve got plenty of activities to keep the kids busy.
For more ocean themed activities, check out our baby platypus, seaweed and algae, and shark coloring pages. Or learn how to draw a fish!
How To Use This I Spy Ocean Printable
First click the image to print the pdf. The answer key is on page two –so no peeking! Then use a pen or pencil to mark down how many of each ocean animal you see on the printable.
Next, check the answer key to see if your count matches the correct number!
You may also like our other hide and find games like these road trip and fall scavenger hunt printables.
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