
This free printable activity book invites your child to build a big, floaty jellyfish entirely out of cut-and-paste geometric shapes, perfect for little ones who love ocean animals and hands-on projects. It suits kids who are working on scissor skills and enjoy seeing a picture come together piece by piece.
The PDF holds all 3 pages, already sized for a standard sheet — print the whole book or just the pages you want.
Page 2 holds these 156 shapes as separate cards with dashed cutting lines. Each card carries a letter, a dot in the colour that piece should be, and the colour’s name — so a child can colour and cut without turning back to another sheet. The letter is how the piece finds its place on the canvas. Either way they can be cut in any order.
| Letter | Colour | Which piece |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 2 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 3 | Indigo light | Indigo |
| 4 | Indigo light | Indigo |
| 5 | Indigo light | Indigo |
| 6 | Indigo light | Indigo |
| 7 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 8 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 9 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 10 | Azure deep | Azure |
| 11 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 12 | Indigo light | Indigo |
| 13 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 14 | Azure | Azure |
| 15 | Azure deep | Azure |
| 16 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 17 | Azure light | Azure |
| 18 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 19 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 20 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 21 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 22 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 23 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 24 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 25 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 26 | Azure light | Azure |
| 27 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 28 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 29 | Azure | Azure |
| 30 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 31 | Indigo | Indigo |
| 32 | Azure light | Azure |
| 33 | Azure | Azure |
| 34 | Azure | Azure |
| 35 | Azure light | Azure |
| 36 | Teal light | Teal |
| 37 | Indigo deep | Indigo |
| 38 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 39 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 40 | Azure light | Azure |
| 41 | Azure | Azure |
| 42 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 43 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 44 | Azure light | Azure |
| 45 | Azure | Azure |
| 46 | Azure deep | Azure |
| 47 | Azure | Azure |
| 48 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 49 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 50 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 51 | Azure light | Azure |
| 52 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 53 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 54 | Azure | Azure |
| 55 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 56 | Teal | Teal |
| 57 | Azure | Azure |
| 58 | Azure | Azure |
| 59 | Azure light | Azure |
| 60 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 61 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 62 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 63 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 64 | Sapphire light | Sapphire |
| 65 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 66 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 67 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 68 | Teal light | Teal |
| 69 | Teal | Teal |
| 70 | Teal light | Teal |
| 71 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 72 | Teal | Teal |
| 73 | Azure | Azure |
| 74 | Azure light | Azure |
| 75 | Azure | Azure |
| 76 | Azure | Azure |
| 77 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 78 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 79 | Teal light | Teal |
| 80 | Teal | Teal |
| 81 | Azure | Azure |
| 82 | Azure light | Azure |
| 83 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 84 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 85 | Teal light | Teal |
| 86 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 87 | Azure deep | Azure |
| 88 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 89 | Teal light | Teal |
| 90 | Sapphire deep | Sapphire |
| 91 | Sapphire | Sapphire |
| 92 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 93 | Teal light | Teal |
| 94 | Teal | Teal |
| 95 | Teal | Teal |
| 96 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 97 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 98 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 99 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 100 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 101 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 102 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 103 | Magenta light | Magenta |
| 104 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 105 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 106 | Teal | Teal |
| 107 | Teal light | Teal |
| 108 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 109 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 110 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 111 | Teal | Teal |
| 112 | Magenta light | Magenta |
| 113 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 114 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 115 | Teal | Teal |
| 116 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 117 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 118 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 119 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 120 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 121 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 122 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 123 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 124 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 125 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 126 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 127 | Teal deep | Teal |
| 128 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 129 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 130 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 131 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 132 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 133 | Violet Pink | Violet Pink |
| 134 | Magenta light | Magenta |
| 135 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 136 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 137 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 138 | Coral deep | Coral |
| 139 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 140 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 141 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 142 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 143 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 144 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 145 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 146 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 147 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 148 | Coral | Coral |
| 149 | Coral deep | Coral |
| 150 | Coral light | Coral |
| 151 | Magenta deep | Magenta |
| 152 | Violet Pink deep | Violet Pink |
| 153 | Violet Pink light | Violet Pink |
| 154 | Magenta | Magenta |
| 155 | Coral deep | Coral |
| 156 | Coral light | Coral |
This activity book turns a simple sea creature into a fun geometry puzzle. Across three pages, your child will find a bell-shaped jellyfish body built from rounded shapes, long wavy tentacles made of thin strips, and a scattering of small circles and diamonds meant to look like bubbles drifting through the water. Every piece is a basic geometric shape, so kids get plenty of practice recognizing circles, ovals, triangles, and rectangles while still ending up with a picture that clearly reads as a jellyfish.
With 156 pieces total, this is a longer, more absorbing project than a quick one-page craft. Kids cut out each shape, sort them by size or color if they like, and glue them into place to build the jellyfish's rounded dome, its trailing tentacles, and the bubbly ocean scene around it. The repetition of cutting similar shapes helps build steady scissor control, while placing pieces in the right spot builds patience and spatial thinking.
A grown-up will be most helpful before the child even starts, laying out the pieces or pre-cutting a few tricky curved edges for younger scissors. Because there are so many pieces, it also helps to have glue ready and maybe split the project across two sittings so it stays fun instead of tiring. Once assembled, the finished jellyfish makes a bright, three-dimensional-feeling piece of art worth displaying.
Best suited to ages 4–7, though younger children enjoy it with a hand and older ones tend to add their own detail.
Print at 100% (not “fit to page”) if you want the exact size shown. Ordinary copier paper is fine for crayons and coloured pencils; if your child prefers felt tips, slightly thicker paper stops the colour bleeding through. The drawing is pure black on white, so it uses almost no ink.
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