Make kids a healthy fun snack to share. Pour juice into paper cups. Insert a craft stick and then add gummy worms around the edges, inserting the gummy worms partially into the juice. Dangling the gummy worms over the edges of the cup will give the impression of octopus legs. Freeze the octopus juice treats until completely solid before serving to the class.
For this craft you need two different colors of yarn, a few cotton balls, two googly eyes, scissors, and glue. Choose one of the yarn colors and cut 24 pieces into 12-inch-long sections. Place the pieces in the shape of a wheel with the pieces overlapping or intersecting in the center of the shape. Roll the cotton balls in your hand until they form one ball the shape and size of a ping-pong ball, which you should place in the center of the yarn pieces. This cotton ball is the head of the octopus. Gather the yarn pieces around the octopus head. Use the other color of yarn to take a section around the base of the head and tie a knot, then a bow on top of that knot. Cut off the ends. With the octopus sitting right side up, take sections of six yarn strands and braid them. To braid, take six strands of yarn and section into three groups of two strands and braid. Repeat this process with the remaining strands and you will create eight braided octopus legs. Tie off each braided leg with the alternate colored yarn, then trim. Glue the eyes in place on the head, above the bow tie. Finally, take a small section of the alternate color yarn and glue on a mouth shape.
For this version of tag, choose a child to be the octopus. Other children are fish and will be lined up on one side of the playing area. When the octopus calls out, "Fish, fish, swim in my ocean," the children playing fish must run to the opposite side past the octopus. Any child tagged by the octopus serve as tentacles and hold hands with the octopus or another tentacle. The captured fish now help the octopus tag other fish by stretching out a free hand. The tentacles cannot move their feet to chase or tag fish, however. The game ends when the last fish is tagged. That fish becomes the next octopus.
Using a purple or blue balloon, blow up the balloon and tie off. Then have children count out eight matching streamers to serve as legs. Attach reinforcement circles used for binder pages for the tentacles and for eyes.