Marine Animal Party Ideas
- Games & Activities:
- Colouring in: 0 to 5 have marine animal themed templates for colouring in, see sea themed templates. They also have colouring templates of a crab, a dolphin, an octopus, a seahorse, a shell and a whale.
- Pin the fin on the fish.
- Adapt traditional party games with a marine theme. Duck, Duck, Goose becomes Fish, Fish, Shark. Slightly older children can play simple card games like Go Fish.
- If you don’t have too many children to look after, or you have help from other parents, take everyone to the local aquarium or zoo to see the real thing.
- Food & Snack Ideas:
- Edible aquarium: Make blue jelly and put gummi fish in it as it sets. You could make single serves in clear cups so you can see the fish swimming in the ‘water’.
- Eat fish fingers.
- Make a cake in the shape of the birthday child’s favourite animal. Ideas include fish, sharks, starfish and octopus.
Books & Magazines About Marine Animals & Fish
- QBD Books – buy all their favourite books and merchandise online, or check stock and click and collect at bookstores around Australia.
Marine Experiences
- Whale Watching – Whale watching season in Australia varies as the whales migrate north to mate and give birth, and then return south to their summer feeding grounds in Antarctica.
- Hervey Bay annual whale watching season is from August to November with the Hervey Bay Whale Festival held in August. Hervey Bay is 300km north of Brisbane
- Gold Coast Whale Watching Tours from early June to late October.
- Coffs Harbour from June to October
- Port Stephens from June to mid-November
- Sydney whale watching tours from late May to early December.
- Whale Watching WA season in Perth is from early September to mid November.
