This Paper Fish is the perfect Paper Plate Fish Craft for little kids in preschool. Big kids can add decorations to the fish to make it as elaborate as they want. It’s an easy summer craft for all.
Fish Craft
This fish is a nice and simple fish craft to make. It’s an easy fish craft for preschool or little kids. That being said, It’s also a great fish craft for older kids. They can add folded cupcake wrappers or curved tissue paper to embellish the paper plate fish with scales.
Fish crafts are a great way to bring in summer or enjoy all summer long. Keep summer going as long as you can with this fun summer craft.
If you are looking for ocean-themed crafts, then you might like my post on a paper plate crab craft, or a coffee filter jellyfish
Tips and Tricks
- you can turn this simple paper fish into a tropical paper plate fish craft by adding colorful tissue paper squares, folded cupcake wrappers, decorative fish paper, and sequins
- Another fun idea, if you have a little artist on your hands, is to add polka dots, or stripes with contrasting paint
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Here’s what you’ll need to make this Craft Fish…
Craft Supplies Needed
- Paper plate
- paint
- sponge brush
- scissors
- large wiggle eye
- low temp glue gun with glue sticks or a Tacky glue like Fabri-Tac glue
Directions:
- paint the paper plate and let it dry
- Cut a large triangle out of one section of the painted paper plate
- Use the triangle you just cut out of the plate to make a fishtail on the opposite side of the cutout portion
- Glue it to secure
- Glue the eye above the mouth
- If you want, you can decorate with cupcake wrappers, tissue paper, or cellophane paper to make scales or more fins
Paper Plate Fish Craft
Equipment
- 1 sponge brush
- 1 Scissors
- 1 low temp glue gun with glue sticks or a Tacky glue like Fabri-Tac glue
Materials
- 1 paper plate You can use a regular sized one as I did, or make a mini fish with a dessert sized plate
- amount will vary orange paint for kids
- 1 large googly eye Mine was 1&1/2 inches wide
Instructions
- paint the paper plate and let it dry
- Cut a large triangle out of one section of the painted paper plate
- Use the triangle you just cut out of the plate to make a fishtail on the opposite side of the cutout portion
- Glue it to secure
- Glue the eye above the mouth
- If you want, you can decorate with cupcake wrappers, tissue paper, or cellophane paper to make scales or more fins
Notes
Tips and Tricks
- you can turn this simple paper fish into a tropical paper plate fish craft by adding colorful tissue paper squares, folded cupcake wrappers, decorative fish paper, and sequins
- Another fun idea, if you have a little artist on your hands, is to add polka dots, or stripes with contrasting pain
