This ocean clipart set brings 12 sea pictures to your page: a waving octopus, a sideways crab, a leaping dolphin, a big blue whale, a sea turtle, a jellyfish, a curling wave and a bright coral reef. Behind every creature the PNG background is clear, so it rests on a blue worksheet or a sandy slide with no white box around it.
Tap Download PNG to save a sea animal, or tap Copy and drop it straight onto your slide. With the background preview you can test each sea animal on chalkboard, kraft paper or a deep ocean blue. For more sea life, open the shark clipart and fish clipart pages, and print something to color from our animal coloring pages.
Cute Sea Animals Clipart
Bright colors and happy faces make these sea creatures easy for young kids to name. They are made for name tags, cubby labels and under the sea party printables.
A purple octopus waves with four of its curly arms and smiles wide. It is a cheerful mascot for a class job chart or a reading corner.
Try this Write one classroom job on each of the eight arms and move a clothespin to show who does what.
A bright red crab holds both claws high inside a thick white sticker border. Kids like it on good job stickers and beach day treat bags.
Try this Stick one on each first grader's paper when they snap through all their math facts on time.
A loose marker seahorse curls its tail and floats beside two bubbles. The hand-drawn look suits notebook covers and handmade cards.
Try this Glue it on the front of a homemade card and add a pun like You Are Sea-riously Kind inside.
Whale Clipart, Dolphin Clipart and Seal Clipart
Sea mammals breathe air just like us, which makes them a great hook for a science lesson. These three cover big and small, fast and slow.
A big blue whale glides along and blows a spout of water from its blowhole. Its wide shape fits a slide title or the top of a bulletin board.
Try this Second graders can write how whales breathe on a speech bubble that comes out of the spout.
Soft gray and blue washes show a dolphin in a curved leap. It looks lovely on thank you notes, calm classroom signs and summer camp cards.
Try this Print it on the corner of a quiet zone sign so the reading nook feels calm and peaceful.
A mid-century style seal sits up and balances a striped ball on its nose. The muted colors make a fun poster for a balance or forces lesson.
Try this Add it to the front page of a third grade forces and motion packet about balance and gravity.
Ocean Wave Clipart, Coral Reef Clipart and Sea Turtle Clipart
Waves and reefs set the scene, and a sea turtle swims right through it. Use these to build a full ocean picture on a poster or slide.
A tall blue wave curls over with a white foam crest. It works as a header for a water cycle page or a fun corner on a beach party invite.
Try this Line three of these waves along the bottom of a water cycle worksheet so the arrows rise from the sea.
A small cluster of coral shows a brain coral, a fan coral and branching coral. It helps kids see that a reef is many living parts together.
Try this Glue it at the base of a shoebox diorama and let fourth graders add paper fish around it.
A green sea turtle glides with its front flippers spread wide. The patterned shell and scaly head are clear enough for a report cover.
Try this Use it on the cover of a sea turtle life cycle report and add the turtle's age on a sticky note.
Ocean Clipart Black and White
These black and white outlines are made for coloring and cutting. Print them on plain paper in black ink, or send the silhouette to a cutting machine.
A smiling jellyfish floats with long wavy tentacles. Kids can color the bell and each tentacle a different color for a rainbow effect.
Try this Kindergartners color each tentacle a new color while saying the color names out loud.
A five-armed starfish lies beside a ridged scallop shell. Both shapes are simple, so they are easy to cut out with safety scissors.
Try this Count the starfish arms and shell ridges with preschoolers, then cut and glue them on a sand paper page.
Two dolphins leap together in a solid black shape. It looks sharp cut from vinyl for a water bottle or a swim team sign.
Try this Cut it from black paper and mount it on a sunset-colored background for a simple art class display.
Ocean Unit Ideas for Every Grade
- Pre-K and K: Make a sea animal matching game. Print two of each cute picture and play memory on the rug.
- Grades 1 and 2: Sort the pictures into mammals and not mammals. The whale, dolphin and seal go in one pile, the crab, jellyfish and starfish in the other.
- Grades 3 to 5: Build an ocean zones poster. Put the wave and dolphin at the top, the sea turtle and reef in the middle, and add deep sea animals from the shark page below.
- Middle school: Use the realistic coral reef for slides on reef health, and the turtle for a talk on plastic in the sea.
For a matching shell and sand theme, see our beach clipart.
Color Pairings and Print Tips for Sea Pictures
Sea animals look best on soft sand, pale aqua or deep navy paper. Try the red crab on aqua, the purple octopus on light yellow and the silhouette dolphins on bright orange. The background preview lets you test these pairings before you print.
Each file is 1000 pixels square, which gives clean prints near 3 inches across at 300 dpi. Plenty for stickers, flash cards and worksheet corners. For a bigger bulletin board picture, print it at 5 or 6 inches and stand back, or trace the outline onto poster board.
When you print the black and white outlines, choose grayscale or black ink only. You save color ink, and kids get a crisp line to color inside.
Questions people ask
Can I use this ocean clipart for free?
Yes. It is free for personal use, lessons, school projects and anything you are not selling. You may skip the credit line. Just do not sell the pictures themselves, and if a sea creature is headed for a product you plan to sell, check with us via the Contact page.
Do you have octopus clipart black and white?
The cute octopus is in color, but the black and white section has a jellyfish, a starfish and shell, and a dolphin silhouette. For a full page octopus to color, try our animal coloring pages.
Is the sea animals clipart a PNG with a transparent background?
Yes. Every sea animal saves as a clear PNG, so you can lay it on a blue slide or a sandy paper color with no white edge. Use the preview button to see it on different colors.
Which wave clipart works for a water cycle worksheet?
The flat color curling wave is the best fit. It is simple and bold, so it reads well at small sizes. Put it at the bottom of the page and draw arrows rising from it for evaporation.
Is there realistic sea turtle clipart for a report?
Yes. The realistic green sea turtle shows the true shell pattern and flippers. It looks good on a report cover or a slide. For more turtles and tortoises, see our turtle clipart page.
What is the easiest sea creature for little kids to cut out?
The starfish and shell outline is the easiest. The shapes are round and simple with no thin parts. The crab sticker is a good second choice because its white border gives kids room to cut.
