I remember going to the doctor's federal agency when I was a kid and staring in admiration at all the beautiful fish in their salt weewe fish tank. I would head home and tie fish and color them with bright, pretty colors, just like in the fish tank. Now, you and your kids can make your own salt water Pisces the Fishes using little paper plates and brilliantly colored paints! These look great pendant on the wall!

Supplies for newspaper publisher plate fish:

  • 8 miniature paper plates
  • brightly colored acrylic paints
  • paintbrush
  • 4 comprehensive wiggle eyes
  • white craft glue
  • glue stick
  • scissors
  • pattern 1 and pattern 2

You can use any craft paint that you have on give. I old Americana in the chase colors:

  • Glistering Orange
  • Sour Malus pumila (ill)
  • Aquamarine Bluish
  • Ocean Blue
  • Bright Yellow
  • Vivid Violet
  • Carousel Pink
  • Black
  • White

1. For all fish you bequeath motivation 2 wallpaper plates. Paint one paper collection plate pink, one chicken, the third one green and the fourth one and only orange. While those are drying, trace the patterns onto the else newspaper plates. Paint the pattern pieces the right colors and countenance dry.

2. Diluted the painted angle pieces KO'd, you should be able to see your pencil lines through the paint.

3. Use a glue stick attach the fish pieces to the appropriate plates, gluing the pieces to the back.

4. Habituate paint to add stripes or polka dots, decorate them notwithstandin you like. Use white craft glue to attach squirm eye.

Hang happening your kid's bedroom wall for an instant no maintenance aquarium!

Sport: Hang from the cap
If you prefer to advert these from the ceiling in that location are a few adjustments that need to constitute successful. You could hang them as constructed preceding, but the back of your fish won't exist jolly, it volition be unpainted crustal plate with glued on pieces. When hanging from the ceiling these fish testament undoubtedly twirl, so to make them visually charming connected both sides make the following adjustments:

  1. For each fish body paint TWO plates instead of unity and paint the backsides of the plates instead of the foremost
  2. Paint both side of all the fins, tails and lips.
  3. You will need Cardinal wriggle eyes for each fish instead of one.
  4. Glue the fins and tails to one of the plates (the unrouged go with), and minimal brain damage a long piece of string.
  5. Sandwich the ii unreal plates together, painted sides facing outward.