Ocean Movement Book & Cards | Brain Breaks Gross Motor | SPED Autism OT PreK

Dive into movement with your class! These Ocean Movement Cards (and Book!) get students up and moving like octopuses, crabs, fish, and dolphins — building gross motor, motor planning, following directions, and imitation skills. Use them for movement breaks, brain breaks, circle time, or those wiggly in-between moments. The teacher reads and models while students imitate — or students pick a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• An ocean movement book with action prompts
• A set of ocean movement cards
• Print, laminate, and bind/cut for repeated use

📚 How to Use

• The teacher reads the book and models the movements while students imitate
• Students can choose a movement card and practice each movement
• Use during circle time, as a warm-up, or as a small group language activity
• Use as a movement break or brain break before/after transitions or to fill a few minutes
• Great for whole group, small group, 1:1, or therapy sessions

📖 Excerpt from the Book

"I can wiggle like an octopus.

I can wiggle through the sea.

I can crawl like a crab.

Will you crawl with me?

I can swim like a fish.

I can swim all the day.

I can scoot like a seal--

move my tail and scoot away!

I can dive like a dolphin--

down in the deep, deep blue......"

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🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor development and movement
• Motor planning
• Motor imitation
• Following directions
• Self-regulation (movement and brain breaks)
• Ocean and sea animal vocabulary
• Listening and attending

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and autism support classrooms
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive PE
• ABA programs (imitation skills)
• Speech-language therapy (following directions, vocabulary)
• Preschool, PreK, and early elementary
• Movement breaks, brain breaks, and circle time
• Ocean and summer units, early childhood, ECSE, and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• A book PLUS movement cards — flexible, two ways to use it
• Builds gross motor, motor planning, and imitation skills
• A ready-to-go movement break and circle-time activity
• Keeps students engaged and gets the wiggles out
• Fun ocean animal theme kids love
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🌊 Want music AND movement? Pair it with the Ocean Adapted Song Book Set — "Animals Live in the Ocean".

🐙 More hands-on ocean, summer, and adapted song activities:

• Hands-On Ocean Activities
• Hands-On Summer Activities
• Adapted Song Books Collection