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An Ocean of Fun

Atlantis Marine World Long Island's aquarium located in Riverhead. Check out the Shark Cam or the Kids Zone for a coloring and activity book.

DLTK's Animal Crafts for Kids Check out DLTK's site for patterns and directions for making a lobster craft, an otter craft, a paper plate crab, toilet paper roll lobster and otter, several octopus crafts and several fish crafts.

First-School First-School has a section of preschool crafts and activities on ocean animals.

Kids'Turn - This link will bring you to an Aquatic Animals word search.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Lots of fun games and activities for a program on bays or oceans and the animals that live there. See the Wild about Otters Bingo game.

National Aquarium, Baltimore Check out a nice collection of fact sheets on a multitude of marine animals to print and distribute or use for quick facts or trivia games.

National Park Service. Games and Activities Kids can join WebRangers and find several online theme-related activities including “Protect the Harbor,” “Water Quality,” “Exploring Tide Pools,” “Turtle Hurdles,” and “Swimming for Home.”

Robert Sabuda.com Patterns and directions for making a pop-up shark and more.

San Diego Aquarium. Shark School You will find puzzles and quizzes all about sharks.

Sea World Click on Kid/Teens Fun Stuff at bottom of page where you will find a Shamu and Shark Cam, and directions for making an origami penguin, whale, and fish.

High Seas Adventures

Family Fun Jet Boat Directions for making a balloon-powered boat.

Pirate Translator - Type in a phrase and see how a pirate would say it.

National Geographic Kids' PIRATES! - Face Blackbeard's High Seas Adventure Challenge.

About.com Pirate Crafts - Lots of links to crafts such as making your own pirate costume, designing your own pirate flag, and making a treasure chest.

Splish Splash Summer

Crafttown Directions for a beach towel craft.

Family Crafts Directions for a beach towel craft.

WaterFun4Kids.com - Learning about water can be fun! This site has games, water experiments, and more!

Buzzle.com's Water Games - This site has a list of swimming pool games.

Buzzle.com's Watercolors - Use this link to see Buzzle.com's watercolor art project ideas.

FamilyFun - Here are the instructions for making a watercolor butterfly.

AHC.org (Artists Helping Children) - This site has an extensive list of craft ideas. Be sure to scroll down this page for 'Aquatic Crafts for Kids'

Squish Squash Freshwater and Wetlands

Boat Safe Kids This Web site has answers to important life jacket and other boating and water safety questions.

EEK Web site activities for children grades 4-8. Check out Critter Corner.

Enchanted Learning You'll find swamp animal printouts.

Kids' Planet This site by the Defenders of Wildlife organization provides facts and information on endangered species and includes booklists, teacher curriculum, online games, coloring pages, word searches, puzzles, and quizzes.

Nova: Crocodiles Companion site for the Nova program Crocodiles!

More fun sites to explore

KidSites.com - Take your pick! This site has lots of links to fun sites.

National Geographic Kids - Check out how cool this site is!

Linkasaurus.com - This site has lots of great links for kids.

Fun-Attic's Great Game List - You'll never get bored again! This site offers a huge list of game ideas.

Craftideas.info - This site offers Rainy Day Craft Ideas

whowhatwherewhenwhy?com - Check out this list of fun sites for kids!

YahooKids - What can I say? More fun!