Ask children to bring illustrations of whales. Organize a mural by gluing them on a large piece of paper. Encourage children to observe the whale's body parts. You can also show a short documentary about whales. Then, ask the children to shape a whale using clay. Use small buttons or beads to make the eyes. Paint the whale when the clay is dry. Alternatively, use colorful play dough.
Recycle old socks and fabric leftovers while crafting a stuffed whale. Fill half the sock with fabric leftovers, cotton balls or leftover yarn. Alternatively, include a sachet with scented herbs, such as lavender, in the sock, to have a scented whale. Tie the sock in the middle, using a piece of yarn. Shape the empty end of the sock by cutting it in the shape of a whale's tail. Use a black marker to draw eyes, mouth and blowhole.
Cut small pieces of colorful paper or old magazines and stuff a paper bag with them. Also add some candies. Leave 3 to 5 inches unstuffed to tie and create the tail. Paint the bag blue, grey or black and white, if you want to create an Orca whale. Leave it to dry. Draw and cut out the fins and tail from a piece of construction paper. Glue them to the stuffed bag, draw the mouth and glue to candies for the eyes. Attach a thread to the top of the bag to hang the whale pinata.
Paint an empty plastic pot blue and allow it to dry. Draw tail and fins on a piece of blue construction paper and cut them out. Make a hole on the top of the pot, to represent the blowhole. Stick in some white chenille stems, bend them towards the pot and glue blue beads at the end, to represent the water coming out from the blowhole. Finally, glue the fins to the sides and tail near the pot’s rim. Glue wiggle eyes and paint the mouth.