What’s Inside The Whale Activity

Save those pant legs from those jeans you want to turn into shorts and use them for this super simple, What’s Inside the Whale Activity.

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What’s Inside the Whale

This is a fun guessing game activity that preschoolers could play during an ocean theme while they’re exploring whales, or when they’re learning about the Bible story of Jonah and the whale.

How to Make the Whale

Supplies You’ll Need

• a pant leg from a pair of jeans you want to turn into shorts.
• scissors
• a rubber band
• a large wiggle eye
• items your child would be familiar with (to go inside the whale)

Step 1: Shape the pant leg to look like the shape of a whale.

Step 2: Cut straight across.

Step 3: Tie the cut end off with a heavy rubber band ( yarn would work too).

Step 4: Stick on a large wiggle eye. I used a 30mm. I got it in a multi-pack from Amazon.

Step 5: Find familiar items to hide inside the whale.

How to Play What’s Inside the Whale

There are many activities you can do with your whale. Here’s six to get you started:

Activity 1 – Fill the whale with items. Have your child stick their hand in and pick one item to hold and feel. Have them tell you what item they think they are holding, and then let them pull it out to see if they were right.

Activity 2 – Name an item for your child to find. Let them feel around inside the whale, and when they think they’ve found it, let them pull it out.

Activity 3 – Stick one familiar item inside the whale. Let your child squeeze the whale from the outside to see if they can tell what the item is.

Activity 4 – Use different-shaped blocks or magnet numbers as your item for any of the above activities to reinforce numbers and shapes.

Activity 5 – Use bear counters, colored blocks, or some other similar items. Put in ten of one color and 1 of another color. Have your child put their hand in and pull one item out. See how many they can pull out before finding the odd color (the item there was only one color of)?

Activity 6 – Have your child play Activity 5 with someone. Each player takes a turn until someone finds the odd piece.

Sometimes, play this, trying to be the one to find the odd piece; other times, play to avoid it.

Free Activity List

Be sure to print out your FREE What’s Inside The Whale Activity List! The download is found in our Free Printable Resource Library

Be sure to check out more ocean-related activities:

• Ocean Activities for Preschoolers
• Jonah and the Whale
• Under the Sea Crayon Resist Art