15 Jaunty Jellyfish Crafts for Kids
You’ll love these jellyfish crafts for kids, perfect for World Jellyfish Day on 3rd November! Learn more about the jellyfish, that’s not really a fish!
What sounds like a fish, lives like a fish and eats fish, but is not a fish?
The jellyfish, of course!
The jellyfish is an invertebrate, but it’s not a fish. It’s got a unique structure of its own, and when you learn more about it, you’ll find that it is quite an amazing creature!
Fun Facts about Jellyfish
- Jellyfish are over 600 million years old and have been around before the dinosaurs
- These creatures can live in any temperature, from freezing water to warm oceans
- Jellyfish have short lifespans, with some living only for a few hours
- Jellyfish stings can be painful; 150 million people are stung by jellyfish every year
- NASA has sent jellyfish to outer space to study the effect of microgravity on them
With World Jellyfish Day coming up on 3rd November, it’s the right time to learn more about this creature that’s not a fish – with some jellyfish crafts for kids!
15 Jaunty Jellyfish Crafts for Kids
1. J for Jellyfish Craft
Jellyfish come in many sizes, from a tiny 0.5 mm to a giant 2 meters in diameter, which also weighs 200 kg! But don’t worry, these jellyfish crafts for kids are of the perfect size for little hands!
2. Bubble Wrap Jellyfish Costume
Do you know how jellyfish move? They contract their muscles and squirt water opposite to the direction they’re going. But if you dress up as a jellyfish this Halloween, you can move any way you like!
3. Scrape Painted Jellyfish Windsocks
Jellyfish are so diverse that you can find them in all kinds of colors – pink, purple, blue and yellow. You’ll also find clear jellyfish as well as ones that are bioluminescent, which means they glow on their own! This craft from Kids Craft Room features some jellyfish with all colors together!
4. Jellyfish Craft For Preschool
Simple Everyday Mom brings us jellyfish crafts for kids that are perfect for little kids, who’ll also enjoy seeing them in an aquarium. Public aquariums that feature jellyfish often have a blue background, so that even the transparent jellyfish will be visible.
5. Free Printable Jellyfish Paper Craft
What we love about the jellyfish from Simply Full of Delight is the fact that you can use any color or length of yarn to make the tentacles. The jellyfish with the longest tentacles is the lion’s mane jellyfish, with tentacles measuring over 27 meters!
6. Paper Chain Jellyfish Craft
This craft from Crafts by Ria is so much fun – we love making those paper chain tentacles! These jellyfish crafts for kids may feature jellyfish in groups, called blooms or swarms, but the truth is that they’re mostly solitary animals!
7. Paper Plate Jellyfish Craft
These jellyfish from Non Toy Gifts look quite mischievous, don’t they? The fact is that these creatures can be quite destructive too, destroying things from fishing nets to ship engines. In fact, there was an incident in 1999, when jellyfish clogged power stations in the Philippines, causing an escalating power blackout!
8. Paper Streamer Jellyfish Craft
Jellyfish are also called Medusa, because of their resemblance to Medusa, a Greek mythology character who had snakes instead of hair. Of course, she was rather evil, but these guys from Kids Activity Zone are certainly not!
9. Printable Paper Jellyfish Craft
These jellyfish from Arty Crafty Kids look like they’re confused about something, but the truth is that jellyfish don’t have a brain! Instead, they have a nervous system with receptors that sense light and vibrations.
10. Fruit Loop Jellyfish Threading
If making jellyfish crafts for kids has got you hungry, this craft from ABCDee Learning will make it worse! While this guy looks friendly, jellyfish can sting, and some are even poisonous. The Box Jellyfish carries enough venom to kill 60 people, and a sting can kill an adult human within a few minutes.
11. Handprint Jellyfish Craft
These guys from Made to be a Momma look adorable, and it looks like they’ve got some fun snacks in their tentacles! In fact, jellyfish are a snack in countries like Japan and Korea, being rehydrated or turned into candy.
12. Easy Paper Jellyfish Craft
Jellyfish are made of 98% water, which means that when they reach the shore, they evaporate and almost disappear. Fascinating, isn’t it? Well, these little jellyfish from Our Kid Things aren’t going anywhere, so no problem there!
13. Watercolor Paper Bag Jellyfish Craft
Jellyfish eat a variety of things – plankton, fish, shrimp and even crabs! They use their tentacles to sting and catch their prey. You can make these paper bag jellyfish puppets from In the Playroom and see how many things you can catch with the tentacles!
14. Free Printable Jellyfish Paper Craft
These jellyfish crafts for kids are a good place to learn fun facts about jellyfish – even if some of them are a little gross! For instance, did you know that jellyfish eat and poop from the same orifice? Yes, it’s true, and even the jellyfish from Mama Likes This seems amused by this fact!
15. DIY Jellyfish Seashell Craft
If you’re taking a trip to the beach in the near future, try making these shell jellyfish crafts for kids from One Crazy Mom. It’s also a reminder about climate change, which jellyfish are surprisingly adapting to quite well, although further climate change can affect their population.
These jellyfish crafts for kids are great for young kids, even preschoolers. Be sure to take them to an aquarium to see these creatures in action, so they’ll be truly awed by the whole experience!
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