Dolphin Daze

The National Aquarium in Baltimore is celebrating the birth of a new baby dolphin! In honor of our new local celebrity, here are a few dolphin activities that preschoolers and kindergartners (and their grown-ups) might enjoy!

• D is for Dolphin: Click here for dolphin coloring pages and printables.
• Whale and Dolphin crafts.
• Make a Venn Diagram and compare dolphins babies and human babies. Dolphin and human babies both grow inside of a mother's body, drink milk, breathe air, and depend on their mother.
• Visit the Dolphin Place: Just for Kids.
• Visit National Geographic's Secret Life of Dolphins.
• Explore Bottlenose Dolphins on National Geographic's Creature Feature.
• Crayon Resist: Have children draw/color a dolphin on water color paper (or white construction paper). Encourage them to color heavily. Using a large paint brush and blue water color paint (watered down tempera paint will work as well), paint the whole page varying shades of ocean blue.
• Find more dolphin facts, pictures, and projects at Dolphinkind.
• Learn to sign dolphin using American Sign Language.
• Learn about how bats and dolphins use echolocation.

Great books budding scientists: