EM3050 Activity: Make a Fish Windsock
OBJECTIVES
To learn about fish native to our watershed, and to learn color-resist painting method.
MATERIALS
11” x 14” paper, light weight watercolor paper, card stock, or poster board, (recycled cereal box, brown paper shopping bag will also work)
Crayons
Watercolors and brushes
Crepe paper
String
Glue stick
Glue, liquid or hot glue
Clothes pins or clips if using liquid glue
Scissors
Hole punch
US Fish and Wildlife ABC’s of Fishing Coloring Book A fun booklet to look at online or download to color and learn about our local waterways.
ACTIVITY
- Cut a 1 inch deep scallop edge one long side of the paper (this is the end that the streamers will be attached to).
- Use crayons to decorate one side of the paper with scales, circles, and squiggles. Make it look like fish skin! If you like, draw a “mouth” on your fish on the unscalloped side (end).
- After you have decorated the paper with the crayons, brush over the decoration with a light film of water.
- Brush on watercolors - 1 or 2 bright colors look best. Let dry.
- Cut 6 to 8, 2 foot long streamers, On the scalloped end, on the inside, two inches from edge, glue (with glue stick) the streamers side by side.
- Roll the fish into a cylinder, right side out. Overlap (1 inch) and glue the edges together. Hot glue works well. If you use liquid glue, hold the edge together with a couple of clothes pins or clips.
- When the cylinder/fish is dry, punch two holes in the “head” opposite to each other, 1 inch from the edge. Cut a yard of string and thread it through the holes and tie a knot in the end.
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