"Fin, Noggin' Duuuude"

For this activity we learned a little bit about sea turtles. We watched a clip from "Finding Nemo".
We also learned about some art elements and different water color painting techniques. We got to draw our own sea turtles after that, we drew whatever kind of designs we wanted but had to create a pattern. The pattern was to have balanced symmetry, so the same thing on each side. We crumpled the papter to make is seem more like water, then we got to choose whatever water color technique we wanted to paint it. When we were done it, looked like the turtle was swimming underwater. One extension activity the students could do would be in science talking about turtles habitats and ocean animals.