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Having established that I go overboard to satisfy my son's obsessions, I went one step further. After filling a Pinterest board with Octonauts goodies for his next birthday party, I realized that something was sorely lacking. So I took out my scissors, my stack of unused felt, and started making masks, of every Octonaut!
Meomi liked them, so you can find the full set of instructions on the homepage for the original Octonauts stories. If your bent doesn't run to felt masks, there are scores of other things you can do to embellish your appreciation of the sea faring adventurers:
- There are activity sheets and coloring pages on The Octonauts website, we have already gone through several sets of these.
- You can make your own complete cosutme, I like Captain Barnacles and Peso, but have to say that this Dashi is my favorite.
- Pull out the iron, dust it off (ahem), and make Perler bead Octonauts - Knitty Mummy lays out how for you.
- You can make your own finger puppets, or purchase a full hand puppet set on Etsy.
- There aren't nearly enough crochet or knitted patterns out there, but this amigurmi Captain Barnacles and Kwazii are a good start. My next project is to use my favorite Amigurumi books
and attempt to creat a set of Octonauts for the baby, who likes to chew on his brother's toys!
- Carve Octonauts pumpkins
- For everyone who hoards toilet paper inserts for craft projects, there are printable Octonauts toilet paper crafts and also instructions on making more detailed figures.
- If you aren't especially crafty, you can use your minecraft server to create a virtual underwater world.
- Or if you feel the need for an Octoanuts/Firefly mashup theme for a birthday party, you can get some great ideas from The Daddy Doctrines.
Since my son is the only child among his friends to take an interest in this particular show, we have found the crafts, especially the masks to be a great way of involving his friends. They each don a mask and have a pretend adventure, without needing to know anything else other than "this is fun." It's a win win playtime!
