Handprint Sea Scene

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Small circular sponge
• 5 googly eyes
• White craft glue

Tissue Paper Fish

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Tissue paper cut into squares
• Googly eye
• Coloured cardboard paper

Method:

1. Cut out a simple fish shape from the coloured cardboard.
2. Spread white craft glue all over the cut-out in a thin layer - using a small spatula works perfectly.
3. Stick the pieces of tissue paper onto the glue. It's ok if the tissue paper goes over the edges as you can trim it off once it has dried.
4. Stick on the googly eye with the craft glue.

Speckled Beans Sea Bed

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Blue poster paint
• Speckled beans
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Small piece of yellow cardboard paper
• Googly eye 

Method:

1. Paint the whole of the paper plate blue and put aside to dry.
2. Whilst drying, cut out a small, simple fish shape from the yellow cardboard.
3. Once the plate has dried, spread a thin layer of craft glue on the bottom third of the plate and sprinkle with speckled beans to create the sea bed.
4. Stick on the fish and googly eye.

Foot Print Sail Boat

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Poster paint

Duck Foot Print

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Blue poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• Googly eye
• Orange kokie
• White craft glue
• Red glitter glue

Cabaret Paper Plate Fish

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Acrylic paint
• Sequins
• Googly eye
• Feather
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Cardboard paper

Method:

1. Use the acrylic paint to paint the paper plate (I use acrylic as it gives a more professional, shiny finish)
2. Cut a mouth and use the cut out as a tail.
3. Stick the tail to the back of the fish with craft glue.
4. Decorate with paper hats, sequins and feather using craft glue to stick them into place.

Paper Plate Fish

Age Range: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Scissors
• Poster paint
• Different coloured tissue paper
• White craft glue
• Cellotape
• Small piece of white cardboard paper
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Use the poster paints to paint the paper plate and leave to dry.
2. Once dry, cut out triangle from the plate to make a mouth.
3. Stick the triangle that you just cut out on to the back of the fish as a tail. Use cellotape for this.
4. Spread a thin layer of craft glue over the fish and paste on little bits of tissue paper.
5. Cut out a circle from the white card as an eye and stick it on with the craft glue.
6. Use the black kokie to draw a dot inside the eye.

Fork Imprint Puffer Fish

Age Group: 4 years to 10 years
Estimated Time: Under 10 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• White poster paint 
• Yellow poster paint 
• Plastic fork
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Submerge the fork into white poser paint and press the painted fork onto the black card in a semi-circle pattern at the bottom on the page. You may have to put paint on the fork several times.
2. Follow the same procedure with the yellow poster paint, this time completing the top part of the  circle.
3. Paint on triangular ears in yellow and use the fork with white paint to make an imprint on them.
4. Cut out a small oval from the white card and draw a smaller black oval in the middle to create a snout. Stick this onto the middle of your fish with craft glue.
5. Cut out 2 small circles from the white card for eyes and draw in the pupils with the black kokie. Glue these on with craft glue too.

Suppliers:

• White poster paint - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=601&category_id=90
• Yellow poster paint - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=596&category_id=90
• Black kokie - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=587&category_id=90

Shark Fin Hat

Age Group: 3 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Around 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• 2 A4 pieces of white cardboard paper
• Blue poster paint
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Elastic
• Bostik glue
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate and one piece of white card with the blue paint and let dry.
2. Out of the other piece of white card, cut out 8 triangles for shark teeth.
3. Once the blue card has dried, fold it in half and cut out a shark fin shape.
4. Glue the two sides of the shark fin together with white craft glue and let dry.
5. Secure the shark teeth on the under side of the rim of the paper plate with cellotape. 
6. Place a thin line of Bostik down the middle of the paper plate just big enough for the fin.
7. Hold the fin steady in the Bostik until the fin stays standing by itself. 
8. Poke holes in either side of the paper plate (behind the teeth) and attach elastic.

Suppliers:

• Blue poster paint - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=598&category_id=90

Hand Print Crab

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Blue paper
• Orange paper
• Red paper
• Scissors
• Pritt glue
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Trace both your child's hands on the red paper and cut them out.
2. Cut out a wavy pattern about a third from the bottom of the orange paper.
3. Stick the orange cut-out onto the bottom of the blue paper with Pritt glue to mimic sand.
4. Glue the red hand cut-outs onto the blue/orange page. Slightly overlap the one hand onto the other so that they are joined.
5. Draw black dots in the thumbs as eyes and draw on a mouth.

Suppliers:

• Black kokie - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=610&category_id=90

Cute Plastic Cup Whale

Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 10 years

Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Plastic cup
• Blue acrylic paint
• Blue cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• Scissors
• Blue or grey buttons
• White craft glue
• White pipe cleaners
• Permanent marker
• 2 googly eyes

Method:

1. Paint the plastic cup blue with the acrylic paint (if the paint is not acrylic, it will just peel off).
2. Cut out 2 fins from the blue card.
3. Draw around the cup and extend into a tail and cut it out (so that the cup can be glued to the tail)
4. Once the cup has dried, use craft glue to stick the fins on either side of the cup and the top of the cup (the drinking part) onto the circular part of the tail.
5. Poke a hole in the bottom of the cup (now the top of the whale's head), and push in white pipe cleaners to mimic water.
6. Around the pipe cleaners, glue some blue buttons.
7. Glue on the googly eyes.
8. Draw in a nose and mouth.

Glitter Fish

Age Group: Under 2 years to 5 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Glitter
• Small beads
• White craft glue
• 1 piece of coloured cardboard paper
• Kokies or crayons
• Ice-cream stick
• Scissors
• A little hand!!

Method:

1. Trace your child's hand onto the coloured card and cut it out.
2. Decorate the cut-out with kokies or crayons.
3. Once finished, apply a thin layer of white craft glue all over the decorated side of the fish.
4. Sprinkle the little beads and glitter onto the glue.
5. Use craft glue to stick an ice-cream stick onto the back of the fish.

Contact Paper Jellyfish

3 year old

 Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Blue cellophane
• Contact paper
• Scissors
• Sequins
• Small beads
• Anything small and shiny

Method:

1. Cut out 5 strips of blue cellophane to make tentacles.
2. Cut out 2 same sized squares from the contact paper.
3. Peel off one of the squares and stick the cellophane strips onto the bottom on the contact paper.
4. Sprinkle sequins, small beads and any other small shiny material onto the contact paper.
5. Peel off the back of the other piece of contact paper and stick it on top of the decorations so that they are secured.
6. Cut the sides of the contact paper to create a semi-circle shape.

Pipe Cleaner Fishing

Very simple, fun and different! Generally better for younger children - under 4 years old.

Age Group: 2 years to 4 years
Estimated Time: Depends on child's concentration span
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Pipe cleaners
• Magnet and string / magnetic fishing rod
• Blue card or paper (optional)

Method:

1. Cut out the blue card or paper into a pond type of shape.
2. Twist the pipe cleaners into a basic fish shape.
3. Start fishing!
4. Because the pipe cleaners and made out of metal, they are magnetic!

Footprint Insects

These are easy and simple to make. Kids love getting their hands and feet painted and enjoy the feeling of the paintbrush on their skin! The look on their faces when they see what their feet and hands have been turned into is absolutely priceless!!

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Googly eyes
• Black kokie
• Glitter glue