ACTIVITIES
Explore our great activites about the Great Barrier Below!
Test your knowledge with our Quiz, try and complete our Word Search or put yourself in an animals shoes in our Reflection piece!
Heaps to explore so get started below!
Quiz!
Want to test all the knowledge you've learnt so far? Complete our Great Barrier Reef quiz below to see how much you already know or to find out what to learn about next! Good Luck!
Reflection
We want to know what your favourite animal is! Using all you've learnt so far we want you to pick an animal from our Gallery page and put yourself in that creatures shoes and let us know what you think it is like to live as them. Is it great? Is it scary? What dangers does your animal face? What could you do to help? Research and write it down or fill out our form below! Have fun!
Arts & Craft
Want to make some Great Barrier Reef themed arts and crafts?
Then check out this masterpiece on how to make your own Reef Sponge and Artwork!
Reef Sponge
What you'll need:
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Some colorful household sponges (3 sponges per ball)
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Scissors
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Dental Floss or zip-ties
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Instructions:
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Cut one sponge into quarters (in half and then in half again)
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4 pieces long ways will give you a large ball
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4 pieces short/width ways will give you a small ball
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Do this with all of the sponges and pile them up
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Grab 12 of the sponge strips and twist them tight and ask some one to hold them for you so you can tie otherwise it's a bit tricky
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Using your floss/string/zip-tie, tie the centre of the sponges together to secure them
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Fluff them up so they look like a ball and your done!
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Check out this link for the full blog with picture direction too!
Reef Painting
What you'll need:
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Some colorful household sponges
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Scissors
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Paint
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Blue construction paper
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Instructions:
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Use an extra sponge and cut it up into different shapes and sizes and a small sponge ball from above.
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Get your paper and paint ready
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using your sponge balls, dip different pieces of the ball into different colours to then press on the paper to get a multi-colour coral reef
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Use all the different sponges you made to create different textures making the water, fish, coral and whatever else you want in your painting!
Or this link for even more arts and crafts about the Ocean and Reefs
Word Search
Check out word search all about the Great Barrier Reef below!
To download just click on the Red PDF Button in the top right corner of the picture and it'll open right up for you to print!
