Red Fish Blue Fish Craft: An Easy Paper Plate Craft
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With Dr Seuss’ birthday on March 2nd, the kids are celebrating Dr. Seuss all day this week! And what better way to kick this off than with an easy Red Fish Blue Fish craft?
How to make this Red Fish Blue Fish Craft
So this morning, while Lia was away at school, my two-and-a-half-year-old made this sweet Red Fish Blue Fish paper plate craft.
These soon turned into Red Fish, Blue Fish props for our Red Fish, Blue Fish story session later in the evening.
This is an easy craft for any toddler or preschooler to do independently.
An adult’s assistance is only required to cut the tail and stick the same to the plate (and the ice-cream sticks if you plan to make these puppets.)
Materials needed for the paper plate fish craft:
- Quarter plate-sized paper plates (You can use larger but if you’re making these puppets you may need larger “puppet” sticks
- Blue and Red paint
- A paint brush
- Glitter(optional)
- Wiggly eyes
- Craft sticks(optional)
- A pair of scissors
- Cello-tape
How to make this One Fish Two Fish craft
Step 4: Now here’s where the adult steps in.
Once the paint dries, cut a small triangle out from the area adjacent to where your child has stuck the eye.
This becomes the tail.
Stick this on at the back, with a strip of cello-tape. /
Step 5: If you want to make your fish puppets, all you need to do is tape the craft sticks to the back and then you’re done!
Aren’t these adorable?
Enjoy reading the story out to your kids and treasuring their proud, accomplished expressions as they hold their props up!
If your kids enjoyed making this sweet paper plate craft, try these too:
I love everything that is so simple…and love Dr Seuss 🙂
Very cute! I’m a huge Dr. Seuss fan!
Fun!! My son’s favorite story was One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
So cute! I was planning on doing something for Dr. Seuss’ birthday, but my son and I are both sick, so I didn’t get around to it. I will save this for next year!
so cute! love the idea!