Colorful egg carton fish – crafts for kids

Summer trips are often associated with knowing new animals. Often these are the fish, saltwater fish and freshwater fish. Those in the wild and in aquariums. If your children have been fascinated by the colorful fish from warmer regions of the world, you can do your own fish to hang in the kid’s room.

Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Craft supplies needed to make egg carton fish

To this art project for kids we need really little craft supplies:

  • one or more egg cartons,
  • utility knife,
  • scissors,
  • white glue to the tree and paper (eg. PVA glue),
  • paint brush
  • and paint (eg. poster paint or acrylic paint).
Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Recycled egg carton fish

The first step of the craft requires our involvement. Adults should help young kids in cutting all the elements: cup sections for bodies and fish’s fins. Use the utility knife to cut four cup sections (one fish) from the egg carton. Two cups will serve as a body, one as a tail, and one will be used to cut the fins.

Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Cutting the cup sections from recycled egg carton

Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Cutting the fins from recycled egg carton

When you cut all the elements , children can begin to stick cups, for example, according to previously prepared copy. In our case, almost five year old son got glued bodies, fish tail and dorsal fin, leaving me the finer elements. Having 3.5 years old daughter got glued only bodies and tail.

Painting is already creativity of each fish producers. No fish does not repeat itself!

Anyone willing to own coral reef?

Colorful egg carton fish made from recycled materials during activities for kids

Recycled egg carton fish

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