Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

We made this little fish the other day.

I forgot to take photos of the ‘how-to’ though. Urgh.

Anyway, I’ll share the usual ‘what we used’ and ‘what we did’ info, and hopefully it’s descriptive enough so you can also have a go at it yourself.

Here goes.

What we used :

– Tissue Roll Tube

– Crepe Paper (to cover the tube, and for the two side fins)

– Strands of wool

– Paper (for the spiky fin and the eyes. You can cut out little shapes too and stick them onto the body)

– Scissors, glue, markers

What we did :

– Cut out the crepe paper – rectangular shape and needs to be double the length of the toilet roll tube

– Cut out two ‘fin-shaped’ ones too (using a different coloured crepe paper)

– Place the tissue roll tube at the centre of the rectangular crepe paper, roll the tube, cover it with crepe paper and glue the end together

– For the front of the fish : tuck the ‘leftover’ crepe paper into the tube

– For the back of the fish : use strands of wool to tie the crepe paper together so you get a ‘tail’

– Using the paper, cut out circles for the eyes, and other shapes, eg.  the spiky fin and other shapes to decorate the fish’s body

– Glue these onto the fish’s body, and use markers to add colours on the eyes, fins, etc

That’s it!

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Now our little purple fish sits on the top of our living room cabinet!