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Hello and welcome to my site. My name is Olga and I love everything crafty. I especially love making crafts with my daughter Ann. Here you can find lots of tutorials about simple crafts that you can make with your kids. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Paper Plate Fish - 1
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With merry inhabitants of the wall aquarium neither children, nor grown-ups will ever get bored. Make colorful fished from paper plates. This occupation will become not only useful for fine motor skills development, but also an informative one.
During the process of creation you can tell your kid about the sea abodes. After the activity is over arrange an unusual contest about fishes to check how the kid has remembered new information. It will be funny!
Tools and Materials:
- 2 paper plates
- a glue gun
- a black marker
- a pencil
- scissors
- a yellow and crimson acrylic paints
- a brush
- googly eyes
Step-by-step instructions:
1
Prepare 2 paper plates for your work. Turn them upside down. Draw the nose, the tail and 3 fins on the corrugated raised edge of one of the plates. The second plate will become the fish body.
2
Cut out the drawn workpieces.
3
Apply the glue by means of the glue gun and stick the nose, the fins and the tail to the front side of the plate, as the fish will be convex.
4
The craft is prepared for decoration.
5
Draw 11 stripes of different width on the craft with a pencil. Paint them alternating yellow and crimson colors. Start decorating the fish from the tail, coloring it yellow, then the fish nose will be yellow as well.
6
Stick googly eyes. A beautiful fish is finished!
