Have a Luau in your classroom. Provide leis, grass skirts, coconuts, and Hawaiian music. this is so much fun. Let the children bring in a beach blanket during beach week. They can take naps on them are sit on them during activity time. Ask each of the children bring in a different type of fruit. Then cut up the fruit and have a tray of fresh tropical fruit.. . You can also serve frozen drinks. Add seashells to your sand table for a great beach feel.

• Pineapple
• Papaya
• Coconuts
• Mangos
• Bananas
• Frozen Drinks (With Umbrellas)
• Ham

Have your children wear their swimsuits one day and have a beach party complete with beach balls, volleyball (over a short net or no net at all), Frisbee's, etc. Have a hula party where your children where hula skirts, Lei, dance with hula skirts. In your dramatic play area set up a seafood restaurant complete with menus, plastic food, and play money. They can pretend to be waiters and waitresses. Remind your children to order healthy food.

Create an ocean area by putting as many ocean items as you can in the area. Some ideas are:

• Fishing Nets
• Sharks jaws/teeth
• Dried seahorses
• Seaweed
• Shells
• Sponges
• Starfish

Use a small cooler and put everything that you would need for a trip to the beach:

• Beach Towels
• Sun Glasses
• Swim Suits
• Sand Toys
• Soda Bottles (Empty)
• Kite

Go to a health food or ethnic grocery store and buy different types of seaweed. Let your children taste the different types of seaweed
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