🪼 Letter of the Week: J is for Jellyfish

Featuring the Jellyfish Printable Kit from our Letter of the Week Bundle

This week's theme is "J is for Jellyfish", and we're pairing it with our Jellyfish Printable Pack from the Letter of the Week series, designed especially for sensory play and perfect for decorating your IKEA Flisat table. The Ocean & Surf kit turns your FLISAT table into an underwater world — jellyfish drift above the bins while kids sort, scoop, and explore the deep. New to the table itself? My IKEA FLISAT beginner guide covers the setup these packs decorate.

Ocean sensory table setup with jellyfish theme

🛒 What's in the Jellyfish Printable Pack

The Jellyfish pack is one of the 26 nine-page kits in the Letter of the Week Bundle, and includes:

  • "J is for Jellyfish" banner, awning, and ocean signs
  • Printable jellyfish and ocean scene pieces
  • Worksheets: letter J tracing and ocean-themed activity pages
  • Vocabulary cards: jellyfish, tentacles, ocean, drift, and more

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🧰 Materials You'll Need

  • Jellyfish Printable Pack (from the Letter of the Week Bundle)
  • IKEA Flisat table (or any sensory bin)
  • Blue water beads, blue dyed rice, or water with a drop of blue coloring
  • Ribbon, tulle, or streamer strips for jellyfish tentacles
  • Plastic sea animals and shells
  • Scoops, nets, and sorting trays
  • Glow-in-the-dark stars or pebbles for a "deep sea" glow

🪼 How to Set Up Your Jellyfish Sensory Bin

  1. Print and hang the banner, awning, and ocean signs on your pegboard or backdrop.
  2. Fill one bin with your blue filler or water to make the ocean.
  3. Hang the printable jellyfish above the table so their tentacles drift over the bin.
  4. Add sea animals, shells, and glow pebbles to the water for discovering.
  5. Place the vocabulary cards and worksheets nearby, then dive in — scoop, sort, and rescue the sea creatures!

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🎯 Learning Objectives by Age Group

  • 6–12 mo: Watching colors and ribbons move; gentle water play with close supervision
  • 1–2 yrs: Scooping and pouring water or filler; naming ocean animals
  • 2–3 yrs: Sorting sea animals, counting jellyfish, matching colors
  • 3–4 yrs: Letter J tracing, learning how jellyfish move and drift
  • 4–5 yrs: Ocean habitat talk — who lives near the surface and who lives deep down

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  • All 26 Letter of the Week themes
  • Printable calendar
  • Links to each week's setup
  • Email reminders with learning extensions

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💡 Tips to Extend the Activity

  • Make a Jellyfish Craft: A paper bowl plus ribbon tentacles makes a jellyfish to hang over the table.
  • Ocean in a Bottle: Layer water, oil, and blue coloring in a sealed bottle for a wave jar.
  • Sink or Float: Test shells, pebbles, and toy animals and sort them by what happens.
  • Deep Sea Dark Play: Dim the lights and explore the bin with a flashlight.
  • Story Time: Read a favorite ocean picture book before diving in.

📚 Related Activities

  • Mermaid & ocean small-world sensory trays
  • Letter M: Mermaid week
  • Sea Ocean Memory Game
  • Ocean sensory jar play

🔤 25 Vocabulary Words for "Jellyfish" Theme

jellyfish, ocean, sea, tentacles, drift, float, swim, waves, tide, coral, shell, starfish, seahorse, turtle, shark, whale, blue, deep, glow, sting, gentle, water, beach, sand, splash

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