I’ve been getting lots of requests for another set of printable puppets, so I asked my kids what I should make and after a lot of crazy suggestions (does anyone know a Yoda song?) we finally settled on jellyfish, three of them!
Here are our Three Jelly Fish Printable Puppets!
Do you know the Three Jelly Fish song? It’s one of our favourite counting songs with great actions and it’s lots of fun to sing and act out.
We set up our jelly fish with some rocks and shells on a piece of blue foam for the water. We had lots of fun making the jelly fish do crazy things and make crazy sounds as they fell into the water and then climbed back up on their rock.
If you don’t know the Three Jellyfish song, Morgan and I made a quick video for you.
It involves a fair bit of toddler induced camera shake, as well as my less than perfect singing, but Morgan is rather impressed with our efforts and so am I. And I am, standing behind my belief that little kids don’t care if you can sing or not, they just care that you DO sing. So if I can share my singing voice with the whole internet, you can definitely share yours with your kids!
Three Jellyfish
Three jellyfish,
Three jellyfish,
Three jellyfish sitting on a rock.
One jumped off!
Splash!
Two jellyfish…
One jellyfish…
No jellyfish,
No jellyfish,
No jellyfish sitting on a rock.
One climbed up!
Horray!
One jellyfish…
Two jellyfish…
Three jellyfish…
You can download the three jelly fish puppets here.
This is an A4 sized pdf document – if you are printing on US letter sized paper make sure you select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Simply download the pdf, print it and cut around the outline of each jellyfish. Then cut between each tentacle and roll the tentacles around a pencil to give them some curl. Attach them to a suitable stick, we used bamboo skewers but you could use chop sticks or even sticks from the garden.
We covered our jellyfish in contact paper on one side before cutting them out so they are a bit more robust for toddler hands, but covering both sides means the tentacles don’t curl as well, so best stick to one.
What is your favourite counting song?
If you like these, then you’ll love our other free printable puppets.
permanently amanda says
I did not know the jellyfish song, but it does sound like something our Kinder teacher sings, so I am going to tell her to pop on over and check out your jellyfish in about an hour’s time :)
And I enjoyed your singing, but I will be keeping my own singing for my Miss 5 only. I’m pretty sure. Unless there is alcohol involved. :D
katef says
Bloggers karaoke night (that I can actually attend) here we come! LOL
Louise Allana says
Wierd Al has a Yoda song. My kids love it. The lyrics are funny :)
katef says
I HAVE to google that…. my boy is Yoda mad, he’d love it! Thanks
Christie-Childhood 101 says
Love your jelly fish, my clever friend :) You are so brave, I would never sing on the internet!! (But you and M were fab!)
Brenda says
Thanks, these are gorgeous!
Veronica says
I love the video!
Kate @ Puddles and Gumboots says
The jellyfish are gorgeous! Loved the video!
mermaid says
Love your jellyfish and the video!
Betty says
Beautiful performance.
Beth says
These look awesome ~ what a fun idea! I wanted to invite you to come link up at TGIF Linky Party on Friday – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
Beth =-)
CreativeBusyHand says
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on Nov. 17, 2011. Thanks again.
penny @ Wildlife Fun 4 Kids says
This is just fantastic Kate! Another fanatatsic resource. I’m downloading them on the weekend and linking to it when I finally write a linky love post!
helen @mostly monsters says
We are so going to make these this afternoon…gorgeous, thanks for sharing xx
Kelly says
You are so awesome.
Lady Bugs with Zoi says
cute!
The Learning Site says
the jelly fish printable puppets are so cute. great for seawater-related activities. :)
jenny says
Great counting Morgan and beautiful singing Kate Very nice to see you (M) feeling so much better than when we visited. Hopefully you’ll fit in a beach visit soon I saw jelly fish ( only two jelly fish) swimming in the water off the ferrry yesterday. Gran Nan sends her love
katef says
Morgan is MUCH better and everyone is VERY keen to come up to the beach in the holidays!
Amy @ MahliMoo says
Thanks so much for these Kate, My kids were transfixed by your video. They remember the jelly fish song from swimming lessons last year.
x
Marita says
The jelly fish are almost as cute as Morgan… almost :)
Jodi says
So fun! I’ll use this at a library story time. THANKS for the music video. : ) I believe what you say about singing.
Cindy says
Love the jellyfish! Thanks- I used the printout with students in my speech/language sessions. They were a big hit!!!
Becky from BeckyandJames.com says
Kate, you are too clever. These are cute as! Thanks for sharing them and this song with us.
sarah says
haha love them.. My Boy Blue loves this song.. I will be printing these out for sure once we get moved and have a printer again!
Cheri says
Hi, Just wanted to thank you and Morgan so much for the wonderful printable puppets!!! We love them and really hope that you keep making more! You have Frogs, Ducks, and now Jellyfish…maybe you could create one for each letter of the alphabet?! Thank you again!!!
Dawn says
Loved your singing!! : ) Thank you for the printables – I’ll be printing them out fotr my grandkids!
zeta says
Hi I run a daycare in Canada and next week is our under the sea week so 50 kids will be busy making your beautiful jelly fish thanks so much. Zee
Joy Morin says
All of your little puppets are wonderful!! I am a piano teacher, and I’m going to make these for a Piano Readiness Class of 4-year-olds. Thanks SO much for sharing!
Yvonne says
Hi Kate, thanks for sharing your video :) my 2.5 year old loves watching it and has asked for it to be played again and again. Would like to make the jelly fish puppets for her. Is this printable still available? Clicked on the link but it went to an error page.
katef says
So sorry the link went dead! I’ve updated it and you can now follow the link and download the pdf or print it straight from the page by clicking the little printer icon at the bottom right of the image box.
Thanks for letting me know!
Yvonne says
Thanks Kate!
Nicole says
Can’t wait to make these jelly fish and sing the song with my 3yr. old preschool class in Aug. when we do our ocean theme. Thanks so much for the creative idea.
Luci Blanco says
Easy to learn. Will probably use this for my ocean theme. Very cute:) Thanks
Deb says
So cute! Thanks for sharing.
Deb says
I know I will like making these and my students will enjoy using them too.