While we’ve been exploring our fish theme, we’ve been creating a whole school of fish crafts. Last week we shared our marbled fish craft. We also painted with forks to make some more tropical fish for our large group mural.
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To make our fish we used white card stock, plastic forks, and washable tempera paint.
We have used forks for painting since we learned about inchworms, so it was like a whole new experience for the kids.
They experimented with ways to hold the fork, tapping it, dragging it, swirling it, and more.
When they were finished, I cut out a basic fish shape, and we had some very colorful fish to add to our display.
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Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.
This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:
1) 1-15 Fish and Fish Bowl Counting Mats
2) Uppercase Letter Fish Cards
3) Lowercase Letter Bubble Cards
4) 0-31 Fish Number Cards
5) Fish Patterning and Sorting Cards
6) Fish Roll and Graph Math Game
7) Word Segmenting Fish
8) Shape Fish
9) Fish Word Building Mats
10) Fish Size Ordering and Sorting Cards
Bridget Hebbert
HI I have a family child cares this would benefit my kids.thanks for sharing,
Rebecca
What a lovely idea. I’ve featured this on the Sunday Showcase this week.
Erica
Oh I love this idea SO much! I will be trying this with my 2 year old son and niece soon. Hopefully they don’t try and eat the paint lol!
By the way, your “basic” fish shape is so much more advanced than mine would have been! 😉
Shaunna Evans
I’m so glad you like the idea, Erica! Hopefully the kids like the painting process so much they don’t eat it. 🙂
And thanks! I’m not very artistic, so I appreciate that you like the fish shape.
Jodi
I love this craft. I just pinned it and will be featuring it this week at Meaningful Mama. Thanks so much for linking up at Mom’s Library. I love your content and hope you’ll be joining us again this week!
Dawn
I love this! My son and husband love to go fishing, so we will def be doing this for a father’s day gift!! Ps. Your daughter has the most beautiful eyelashes in the world!!
Shaunna Evans
What a fun and meaningful gift idea that celebrates one of their favorite times together. Love it!
And thanks–she’s definitely got her Daddy’s eyelashes. 🙂