MAKE A MODEL ROCK POOL

You can do this in a garden or indoors in a bathroom or kitchen –wherever it’s OK to get a bit messy!

You will need

A large bowl, such as a washing-up bowl

Pebbles, sand and seashells

Small plastic toy sea creatures if you have them, or you could make some from modelling clay Seaweed (optional)

What you do

1. Use sand, pebbles and shells to cover the bottom and sides of the bowl.

2. Pour in water to make a realistic rock pool.

making rock pools. You can find all kinds of creatures hiding here!

Sea anemones stick to rocks and catch passing food in their tentacles.

Beadlet anemone

Small fish wait in rock pools until the tide returns.

Goby fish

Pipefish

Rockpool

3. Add some sea creatures! You could make tiny silvery fish from kitchen foil. If you’re by a beach you could even collect some seaweed to add, or make some from green wool or pipe cleaners.

Shore crabs grow clinging to rocks. They close their shells tight when the tide is out.

Who lives on a haunted beach? A sand-witch!

Limpets are sea snails with cone-shaped shells. At low tide, they clamp tightly to rocks. At high tide, they crawl around underwater to feed on algae.