Here Fishy Fishy Fishy!

As part of our Ocean Study, we read about the fish that live in the coral reef. Inspired by a pin on Pinterest, made our version of fish!

Materials: For one fish
Paper plate
Giant googly eye
Sequins
Glue
Tape
Scissors

How to:
Have the child cut out a triangle (I drew it on first). This is the mouth!
Tap the triangle to the opposite side. This is the tail!
Glue on googly eye. Now the fish can see!
Glue on scales. Now the fish can swim!

You can use ANYTHING for the scales. Buttons, pompoms, feathers, glitter, or even just color the fish. I liked the sequins because they reminded me of the Rainbow Fish book we had read the night before.

I have found that Thing 2 liked doing the glue part, but got tired of making the glue dots. She wasn't done in putting on the scales so I would put on a bunch of glue dots for her and then she had the (more fun) part of sticking on the scales.

Thing 1 didn't really care for this craft as much, and I had to be creative in encouraging him to put more scales on so the poor fish could swim!

All in all, this was really fun, and kept them engaged for about 10 minutes in total.

With Love,
Emily