Caroline
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Supplies needed:
- small paper plate
- orange cardstock paper
- orange paint
- paint brush/foam brush
- orange round .75-inch stickers
- Elmer’s orange Painter’s Marker
- large googly eye
- glue
Tutorial:
1. Paint your plate
2. Glue labels to the plate
Use your orange round labels and stagger them across half of your paper plate to create fish scales. If you want to make colorful fish, you can use all of the colored labels.
3. Cut out fin pieces
Cut out all the fin pieces from your orange cardstock paper. I cut out a back fin, a top fin an two fins for the bottom. I also cut small triangle ridges all along the bottom of the fins. This step is optional, dependent on the ability of children.
4. Draw lines on fins
Use your orange Elmer’s Painters Marker to draw lines down all of your fins. You can easily use an orange crayon instead, but I loved how the painters marker looked.
5. Glue your fins, eyes & cut out mouth
Glue your fins to your paper plate. Finish your fish by cutting out a mouth at the front of the fish and gluing on a large googly eye.
I love how the scales turned out with using the round stickers! We made our fish orange, but you could personalize your fish with any colors you choose. In fact, I bet preschoolers would love making their own colorful fish.
