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Free Printable Ocean Animals Dot it Marker Pages

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These free printable ocean animal do a dot pages are a fun, no-prep activity for toddlers and preschoolers. They’re a great activity for your ocean-loving little learner and can be used as a completely mess free activity when you use round stickers instead of dauber markers.

There are lots of free printable do a dot pages here on The Artisan Life because my daughter adores them and will happily dot or sticker them for ages. Be sure to grab these free printable summer dab it marker pages while you’re here for even more beach fun! Your older children will enjoy these cute sea creature coloring pages for kids. Make sure to print them off, too.

A preview of seven printable dot marker coloring pages. Each page has a large ocean animal with dots to color in with a dauber style marker. Animal include: shark, whale, lobster, crab, dolphin, angelfish, and octopus

If you have young children at home (or are an early education teacher) and are looking for low-prep ocean-themed activities, you’ve come to the right place! Here are a few of the most popular ocean theme posts on The Artisan Life for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners:

  • Ocean animal addition (1-10)
  • Ocean animal roll & count mats
  • Ocean theme prewriting practice
  • Narwhal cut & past craft
  • The best ocean books for toddlers
  • Color ocean animal dot marker pages

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My daughter has always loved fish and the ocean. If your little learner loves sea life, too, be sure to check out this post with toddler-approved books about the ocean for toddlers and preschoolers. 

We have lots of books about animals and fish. If you’re looking for new books about ocean life, I recommend pretty much anything by DK, Eyewitness, or National Geographic. These books have large, colorful photographs and dependable information. 

I recently bought a book about animals at Costco because it caught my eye. It was packaged with a poster, so I wasn’t able to look through it before purchasing. After reading it, I realized it contained several pieces of misinformation. Yikes! (For example, it claimed that elephants only have 4 teeth…that’s just not true.) Now I stick to books I trust to have accurate information for my little animal lover.

Eyewitness Ocean: Discover What Lies Beneath the Watery Surface of Our...
Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia
Children's Encyclopedia of Ocean Life (Arcturus Children's Reference...
Eyewitness Ocean: Discover What Lies Beneath the Watery Surface of Our...
Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia
Children's Encyclopedia of Ocean Life (Arcturus Children's Reference...
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Eyewitness Ocean: Discover What Lies Beneath the Watery Surface of Our...
Eyewitness Ocean: Discover What Lies Beneath the Watery Surface of Our...
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Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia
Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia
Children's Encyclopedia of Ocean Life (Arcturus Children's Reference...
Children's Encyclopedia of Ocean Life (Arcturus Children's Reference...

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  • Benefits of coloring with dot markers
  • How to use dauber marker printables
  • Free ocean animal dab it pages download

Benefits of coloring with dot markers

Dauber marker coloring pages are an easy, no-prep activity. They’ve become increasingly popular, too. (I recently saw some at the Target Dollar Spot!) But are they developmentally appropriate and beneficial for your child’s development?

Yes, they are! Thank goodness. A child’s activity that’s fun, inexpensive, easy, and beneficial. They can help your child develop and strengthen their:

  • Hand-eye coordination
  • Grip strength
  • Finger strength
  • Manual dexterity
  • Creativity and artistic expression

Providing your child with plenty of opportunities to practice fine motor skills helps them prepare to tie, button, zip, lace, and snap their own clothing. It also prepares them for writing.

How to use dauber marker printables

These cute ocean animal dab it pages will delight your little learner. There are 11 page with popular favorites to color including:

  • Shark
  • Dolphin
  • Cute fish
  • Whale
  • Octopus
  • Angelfish
  • Clam shell
  • Lobster
  • Crab
  • Clownfish
  • Stingray
A preview of a free printable dolphin dot marker coloring page with an illustrated purple dauber marker

The circles on these pages are based on the diameter of my daughter’s Classic Do a Dot Markers. The circles are sized for this brand of markers, but they also work with other dauber or bingo style markers. The only ones that might not work as well are the really narrow-looking ones I’ve seen packaged with books at the Target Dollar Spot. I don’t own any of these markers to be sure, but they looked a lot smaller than typical dot markers.

We’ve been using the same set of rainbow Do a Dot markers for two years at the time of writing. The ink in them seems to last forever! They can be a little spotty when they’re first used for the day. Make sure to always store dab it markers on their sides, not upright, and pounce a few times to get ink flowing (as needed). This is actually good advice for pretty much any marker. Store your markers on their sides, not end up in a pen cup.

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Do A Dot Art! Markers 6-Pack Rainbow Washable Paint Markers, The Original...
Washable 8 Colors Dab and Dot Markers for Toddlers and Kids - Non Toxic...
Washable 8 Colors Dab and Dot Markers for Toddlers and Kids - Non Toxic...
Washable Dot Markers for Toddler: Ohuhu 8 Colors Bingo Daubers 40 ml (1.41...
Washable Dot Markers for Toddler: Ohuhu 8 Colors Bingo Daubers 40 ml (1.41...

You can make the pages reusable. Have your child cover the circles with pompoms, big buttons, or another small item. Math manipulatives like unifix cubes and counting bears work, too, they just don’t perfectly fill the circles. You can also use edible items like o-style cereal, fish crackers, etc.

Traditional plastic bingo chips work for reusable pages, too. Make sure your child is past putting things in their mouth, and doesn’t have a younger sibling around who could access them, before getting plastic counting chips.

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For an easy, no-mess activity on the go, use these dot it printables printables with round coding label stickers. This is a great activity for car trips, doctor’s appointments, and any time when you just don’t feel like having yet another pair of pants stained with marker.

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Round stickers come in several common sizes. Get 5/8″ or 3/4″ round stickers, not 1″ stickers. One inch round stickers are too big for these pages. We have these stickers. You get thousands of them for just a few dollars. Ours came with a surprisingly sturdy zippered pouch to keep them in, too. Below you can see my daughter (3 years old at the time of writing) using round stickers with an Easter do a dot printable:

A preschooler placing a yellow round sticker on a do a dot printable shaped like an Easter bunny

For cuter colors and easy to store rolls, get washi tape dots. Many washi dot stickers are very small – the largest ones I’ve found are only 9/16 of an inch. Make sure you don’t get the super tiny ones or there will be a lot of blank space inside each dot on the printables.

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  • MATERIAL: This masking tape made by traditional crafts and paper with soft surface and lasting color, you can easily stick with ideal adhesion, and...
  • MUTI-USE: The washi tape can be used to decorate your diary, hand book, bullet journal or gift wrapping, beautify lipstick, eyeshadow box, pencil,...
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Free ocean animal dab it pages download

This set of ocean creature dot marker coloring pages includes 11 pages.

All 11 pages are located in one convenient PDF. Download information is below the preview images. Each image has its own page in the PDF printable. The preview images are shown in groups to help this page load more quickly.

A preview of four ocean animal dot marker coloring pages Animals include: shark, dolphin, fish, and whale.
A preview of four ocean animal dot marker coloring pages Animals include: octopus, angelfish, clam, and lobster
A preview of three ocean animal dot marker coloring pages. Animals include: crab, clownfish, and stingray

Like all preschool printables on The Artisan Life, these are for personal and single classroom use. This includes use with scouts groups, Sunday school classes, homeschool co-ops, your own therapy clients, etc.

You are not licensed to sell, or redistribute the files to other adults for use with their students/children. Instead, please refer them to this post so they can download their own copies.

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I hope your little learner loves these ocean creature themed do a dot pages! Be sure to check out these additional free printable dot marker coloring pages while you’re here on The Artisan Life:

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Dot marker coloring pages are always popular with toddlers and preschoolers. Use them with round stickers for a no-mess activity or cover each circle with a pompom to make the pages reusable.

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These weather themed dot marker pages are perfect for your weather unit study for homeschool preschool, totschool, or in the classroom.

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Kids always love when it's farm theme time!

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These summer do a dot printables are a great boredom-buster or quiet time activity.

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Dinosaurs are always popular with little learners!

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Use these Cinco de Mayo dot marker pages as part of a lesson on global cultures, Hispanic heritage month, or Cinco de Mayo.

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These Halloween dot marker coloring pages are cute, not scary, for your tots.

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