Develop your kindergartener’s number sense and scissor skills with a colorful fish craft. Use old magazines or other recycled paper products to create fish scales in a variety of colors and textures. Your little one will be an expert at cutting out circles by the end of this project.
What You Need:
- Large piece of construction paper or tagboard
- A variety of paper products
- Scissors
- Glue
- Crayons or markers
What You Do:
- Help your kindergartener draw and cut out a simple fish shape from a large piece of construction paper or tagboard.
- Gather a variety of paper products to create the fish scales. Consider old magazines, tissue paper, gift wrap, wallpaper scraps, tinfoil, or crepe paper. Talk about the colors and textures that you find. Encourage your child to choose which papers to use. Talk to her about her choices. Which does she like the best and why?
- Help your child cut one- to two-inch circles from the different paper products. Ask her to estimate how many circles she will need to fill the fish template. Ask her to count the circles as she cuts them out. Let her stop cutting when she reaches her estimated number.
- Let your little one glue the circles on to the paper fish in an overlapping pattern, like real fish scales. Did her estimated number of scales fit? Does she need to cut out more or does she have too many? Help her cut out more if needed. Count the number of scales on the fish. How many circles did it take?
- Give your child crayons or markers and let her draw a face and other details on her fish.
Some fish travel in groups, or schools. Create several fish templates to make your own school of fish. Make the fish in different sizes to reinforce size concepts and the concept of less versus more. How many circles does it take to fill a small fish? What about a really big one?
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