Day at the Seaside - Part 1 - Activities & Crafts Backpack, Aquarium, and Beach Building

Oct 1, 2026

A children’s activity guide for a seaside-themed day, combining backpack learning and hands-on crafts. It provides instructions for wearing and organizing a backpack safely and comfortably, including what to pack first and how to store items during the day. The guide then presents craft ideas such as making a shark and octopus mask, building beach scenes with boards, mats, plants, and beach props, and creating an aquarium diorama using a shoebox, glue, plastic film, tissue paper weeds, fish templates, and aquarium materials like pebbles and sand.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages17

Reading Time26 min

AccessFree to download

Activities & Crafts

Know Your Backpack

Backpack Usage Tips

What You Will Need

How to Do It

Songs

Visits

Beach Building at Head Quarters

Aquarium Craft (Shoebox Aquarium)

ACTIVITIES & CRAFTS Know Your Backpack What Shall we Pack Backpack Craft Building Beaver Beach Building an Aquarium Paper Plate Fish Shark Mask Octopus Mask SONGS VISITS Wearing your backpack • Wear a backpack that’s the right size for you. • Always wear both shoulder straps when you carry your backpack. • Make sure the shoulder straps fit snugly on your shoulders, but that they aren’t too tight. • The bottom of the backpack should rest a little lower than your bellybutton. • If the backpack has a belt to wear around your waist, wear it! Using your backpack • Put the heaviest items in the backpack first so they will rest against your back. • Once everything is in your backpack, make sure the school supplies don’t slide around when you walk. If they do, move the supplies around so it’s more comfortable. • If your backpack is too heavy, carry a book or other item in your hands so the backpack will be lighter. • When possible, take out your lunchbox, gym clothes, show-and-tell items, and any other supplies and place them in a locker so you don’t have to carry them around all day. • If your backpack is too heavy, take a look and see if you can take something out that you don’t need. What you will need: • Backpack Templates • Brown paper lunch bags • Glue • Crayons or coloured pencils • Scissors. How to do it: • Print out the backpack templates. • Colour the templates and cut them out. • Glue the back pattern (strips) to the back of the lunch bag and stick the flap. Glue the rest of the patterns to the bag as shown in the picture. Glue only the sides and bottom of the front pocket to the bag so that the pictures can be placed in the pocket. Since some localities are not near the sea, why not‘build’your very own beach at your own Head Quarters?? Here’s what you need to do it: Materials Needed: • A white board or notice board with the name of the beach or theme of the day written on it. Beavers can have fun decorating this board • Large pictures of shops that one usually finds around the beach • Beach mats of different colours —brown = sand, blue = sea water, grey = concrete floor • Photocopies of plants, trees and flowers to embellish the beach • Any sort of equipment related to the beach and swimming : flippers, goggles, buckets, spades, deckchairs, beach towels, etc etc • Large pictures of life guard stations and/or pictures of lifeguards • Scissors, Glue, Tape, Glue Tack • Tons and Tons of Imagination and Creativity What You will need: • Shoe box of any size • PVA glue • Plastic film • Sticky tape • Thread • Coloured tissue paper Scissors • Paint • Paint brush • Aquarium animals template How to do it: • Cut out a rectangular shape into the shoe box lid. • The inside and outside of the box can be painted any colour. Some people prefer using blue as it is a standard colour for seawater. • Glue a plastic film over the space of the shoe box lid from the inside. • You can start cutting strips of coloured tissue paper preferably green colour to make it look like weeds. Attach by using glue or sticky tape to hold it at the top of the inside aquarium. • You will colour in any number of fish, paint and decorate them. Use glitter if you want. • Attach fish to the shoe box lid with thread, sticky tape or string. You can do this by attaching one end of the thread to the fish and the other to the top of the box as shown in the picture. • Put other aquarium materials like pebbles, sands and others at the bottom of the shoe box.

FAQs

How should a child wear a backpack for comfort and safety?

Wear a backpack that fits, use both shoulder straps, and make sure the straps are snug but not too tight. Let the bottom of the backpack rest a little lower than the bellybutton.

What is the best way to pack the backpack contents?

Put the heaviest items in first so they rest against the back. Ensure school supplies don’t slide when walking, and if the backpack is too heavy, carry an extra item in the hands.

What materials and steps are used to build a shoebox aquarium?

Cut a rectangular shape in the shoebox lid, paint the inside and outside, and glue plastic film over the lid from inside. Add green tissue paper strips for weeds, color and attach fish templates, then place pebbles and sand at the bottom.

Oct 1, 2026

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