MAKE A MODEL ROCK POOL
In some places, seals flop ashore to rest on the beach.
Grey seal
You can do this in a garden or indoors in a bathroom or kitchen – wherever it’s OK to get a bit me ssy!
Yo u will need
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large bowl, such as a A washing-up bowl Pebbles, sand and seashells S mall plastic toy sea creatures if you have them, or you could make some from modelling clay Seaweed (optional)
swimming crab
Crabs really do pinch people’s toes!
hides under rocks or seaweed.
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What you do 1. Use sand, pebbles and shells to cover the bottom and sides of the bowl.
ROCK POOLS
2. Pour in water to make a realistic rock pool.
As the tide goes out, seawater gets trapped in hollows in the rocks, making rock pools. You can find all kinds of creatures hiding here!
3. Add some sea creatures! You could make tiny silvery fish from kitchen foil. If you’re by a beach you could even collect some Sea anemones seaweed to add, or make some stick to rocks and from green wool or pipe cleaners.
catch passing food in their tentacles.
Beadlet anemone
of sea snail.
Shore crabs
Nip! Nip!
Mussels grow clinging to rocks. They close their shells tight when the tide is out.
Rockpool prawn
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P ipefish
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Goby fish
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Small fish wait in rock pools until the tide returns.
Limpets are sea snails with cone-shaped shells. At low tide, they clamp tightly to rocks. At high tide, they crawl around underwater to feed on algae.
Who lives on a haunted beach? A sand-witch!
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