Octopus hats

Today we made octopus hats! So adorable! We got the kids to fold construction paper legs into zig zag pieces then glued and stable them to the hats! (Mom you should totally steal this idea for your class) It was so cute!

We played a fun game while wearing our hats too! One person is the shark and is sent outside the room while all the octopuses sit in a circle. One octopus has the shark’s dinner (a plastic fish) and hides it in his hands and the other octopuses pretend that they are actually the ones with the dinner and hold their hands as if the fish is in them. Then all the octopuses shout “Shark, Shark, Where’s your dinner?!” and the shark comes in and gets 3 guesses to find who has his dinner. 

It was very fun but pretty hilariously confusing for the kids at first. It took three rounds of the game for them to understand not to yell out who has the dinner but that it is a secret. And I still don’t think they understand why to pretend to be holding the dinner if you don’t have it. But at least we got some really cute pictures!