Take your little ones for a magical journey under the sea as, together, you explore the oceanic depth while enjoying delectable ocean-themed treats.
Turtle: The Incredible Journey (2009)
Rated G
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Nick Stringer
Starring: Miranda Richardson (narrator)
This fantastic underwater voyage explores one of the natural world’s most incredible journeys through the story of a single, small loggerhead turtle as she departs her Florida beach birthplace into the great, wild unknown.
Join her as she swims up toward the Arctic riding the Gulf Stream, then around the North Atlantic, over to Africa and ultimately back to her place of origin.
As harrowing at times as it is beautiful and inspiring, the film shows how challenging and courageous such an undertaking can be, as only one in ten thousand who attempt the journey actually make it back alive.
That said, this story is one of true wondrousness and triumph.
Ocean-Themed Snack idea: Healthy Sea Turtle Snacks
To make your own healthy, edible sea turtles, start by taking half a green apple and setting it in the center of a snack plate with the rounded side up; this will be the shell.
Then, array green grapes around the apple to form the head and four legs. Use a sliced grape half for the tail.
Finally, place two mini chocolate chips in the "head" grape for eyes. You can then sprinkle goldfish crackers to fill in the spaces around the turtle.
As an alternative to the green apple halves, you can also use kiwi slices as your turtle shells.
Stream Turtle: The Incredible Journey on Apple TV.
Blue Planet II (2017-18)
Seasons: 1
Genre(s): Documentary, Reality TV, Made in Europe
Director: Alastair Fothergill
Starring: David Attenborough (narrator)
This magnificent miniseries delivers a close-up study of oceanic life and its history. Each episode explores the mini-cultures existing in different regions of the ocean, from the coasts to the coral reefs to the great blue depths, including how they got there.
Some of the otherworldly creatures you’ll meet along the way are like none you’ve seen before and defy imagination.
Ocean-Themed Snack: No-bake Ocean-themed Cookies
These no-bake cookies will make you feel like you’re watching this series from the ocean floor as you’re sitting in your own living room floor eating them.
Take some shortbread cookies and spread blue frosting over the top. Sprinkle brown sugar across the bottom to make the ocean floor.
Carefully lay some sprinkles for the undersea plant-life. And, place a couple of goldfish crackers or Swedish fish to finish it off.
Stream The Blue Planet on Discovery+.
Disneynature: Dolphin Reef (2018)
Rated G
Genre(s): Documentary, Kids & Family
Director: Keith Scholey
Starring: Natalie Portman (narrator)
Dolphin society is not much different from human society in all its complexities. Get a peek inside this oceanic civilization through the eyes of a young Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Echo, who’s at that point in young adulthood when the frivolity of his youth pulls against the beckoning responsibilities of adulthood.
Sound familiar?
As you follow the coming-of-age of this charismatic dolphin, you also get to explore the spectacular coral reef where he lives and meet his friends, including cuttlefish, orcas, humpback whales and sea turtles.
Ocean-Themed Snack: Banana Dolphins in Jello
Take the half of a banana with the stem intact and carefully slice the stem down the middle to create the dolphin’s long, pointy mouth.
Then, stick the banana with the cut side down in a cup so it stands on its own; you may have to trim it to get it to do this.
You can draw the eyes on your dolphin, whether with food-grade dye or not, because it’s on the skin, which is only going to get peeled off to eat the banana.
Next, fill the space in the cup around the banana, your dolphin, with cubes of blue-colored jello cooled in ice-cube trays.
For good measure, you can even stick a Swedish fish candy in the dolphin’s mouth.
Stream Dolphin Reef on Disney+.
Wonders of the Sea (2019)
Rated G
Genre(s): Documentary, Made in Europe
Director: Jean-Michel Cousteau , Jean-Jacques Mantello
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger (narrator)
The sea has never looked more like an animated movie than in this rich and vivid IRL film. As kids learn about the threats our oceans face, they get to explore its most wondrous and fantastical features and creatures in exotic locales like Fiji and the Bahamas.
Ocean-Themed Snack: Starfish Sandwiches
Take everyday sandwiches and cut them with a cookie cutter (or a skilled hand and eye) into the shape of stars.
Stream Wonders of the Sea on Fubo TV, Vudu, Tubi TV, Crackle, Popcornflix, Plex.
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
Rated G
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Philippa Ehrlich , James Reed
Starring: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
If you ask any kid who’s their best friend, doubtlessly few will say an octopus; yet, that’s exactly the answer for Craig Foster, who forms an unlikely bond with a young octopus.
Without giving too much of this extraordinary true-life plot away, suffice it to say that this friendship develops in the most natural of ways and reaches as deep as any between two humans.
Over the next year, Foster documents his new friend’s life.
Ocean-Themed Snack: Octopus Snacks
Here are two fun ways to snack on octopus-themed yummies–one sweet, one savory.
To make an orange octopus, take a small orange and carefully slice the skin from the bottom into eight arms, or "tendrils." Then draw an octopus face on the side. Not a very elaborate or extravagant snack, but certainly a delicious one.
To make a bell pepper octopus vegetable platter, prepare a vegetable platter as normal, but, inside the dip in the bowl at the center, bury a bell pepper upside down for the head and array pepper slices around the sides hanging over the edges of the bowl for legs.
Now, it looks like you have a giant octopus emerging from the sea of dip.
Stream My Octopus Teacher on Netflix.
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