1)             GLUE FISH
                (GR. 3-6) 
                A great lesson submitted by Karen Larmour - Teacher, Salem
Baptist Christian School, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
                
                Materials: 
                
                a.. Black construction paper 
                    b.. White glue 
                    c.. Crayons 
                    Directions: 
                
                a.. The students drew the outline of a fish on large paper.
Black paper works best. 
                    b.. They added scales, fins and any other detail they
wanted. 
                    c.. The students then traced over these lines with glue
and allowed it to dry.
                    
                    d.. The students then colored in the areas that were not
covered with glue with crayonss. The brighter the better. The effect was
wonderful.
                    
                    e.. We entered some of the fish in a local art show and
won best in show.

2) Triangle Fish

Cut a 9" X 12" piece of construction paper diagonally from corner to corner.
Now you have triangle to make two fish.  Cut a muffin paper in quarters.  Glue
one quarter to the tail, one quarter to the top near the right angle and one
quarter to the middle of the bottom ( the longest side) for fins.  Add eyes
and decorate anyway you desire.  We usually use crayons and markers.

3) Circle Fish

Cut out a 6" circle from constuction paper and glue to a piece of light blue
construction paper.  Cut a triangle from the same color or a contrasting color
and attach to the back of the circle for a tail.  Draw eye, mouth, gills,
fins, a fish line with a hook and worm and whatever else you want.

4) Paper Bag Fish

Lay a plain paper bag down flat.  Leave the bottom folded up and fold in the
corners of the bottom of the bag and staple in place to form the fishes snout.
Loosely stuff the sack with scrap paper or whatever you have.  Close the end
of the bag with a rubber band.  Slide it up a couple of inches and spread out
the end to make the tail.  Let the children paint the bag with watercolors or
tempera paint any way they want.  Add paper or googly eyes if the children
haven't already painted on eyes.  Some times we have attached these to a piece
of yarn like a fish on a string.  We have also added a straw to the yarn for a
fishing pole.

5) Books

We always read McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss because it is so imaginative.
Some other good books are
Fish is Fish   by Lionni
Swimmy by Lionni
Magic Fish by Littledale
My First Nature Book by Kuhn
Fish Do the Strangest Things by Hornblow


6) Read the two "Rainbow Fish" books by Pfister


7) For toddlers why don't you just make a simple fish pattern out of construction
paper and let them do several different things on it:
1.  string painting
2.  marble painting
3.  fingerpainting
4.  shaving cream with a little bit of tempera paint in it.

If the children can cut let them cut out there own fish


8) FLASHY FISH
Have children glue oval shaped tissue paper and foil pieces onto a white
const. paper fish shape.  Attach a black dot sticker to resemble the eye.
Punch a hole near the mouth of the fish. Put a paper clip through the hole in
the mouth then attach to the rope.To display, suspend a length of rope from
your ceiling, then attach your fish like you would on a stringer.

9) Toothpaste Aquriums-Get a small snack-size zip-lock bag and put blue sparkle
toothpaste in it, add a couple gummy fish.  Close the bag and let them squish!

10) Another project idea is to take 2 pieces of construction paper (white if you
would prefer to let the kids color them themselves & colored paper for another
look)cut out both of them into fish shapes. Staple them all the way around
except for the tail end. Let the kids stuff them with crumpled newspaper till
they are completely filled, then staple the tail end together & now they've
got their own little fishy!!!

11) Make an aquaruim-Take 2 paper plates and cut the inner circle out. Tape blue
cellophane to on to the inside of each plate. Glue or tape fish and seaweed to
inside and then tape outside paper plates together thus making an aquarium.  

12) Cut a large fish pattern from two peices of colored cellophane, and punch
holes around the edges.  Stuff with small peices of hollagram or shiney paper,
and "sew" around the edges with ribbon. 

13) Fish Idea-Take bubble wrap and cut out two fish shapes and glue both pieces
together leaving an opening to stuff. Fill the fish ith colored tissue paper
and then seal the opening. Hang these from the ceiling and you have a room
full of beautiful rainbow fish!


14) Fish
    give each child a precut out fish from construction paper...let them
choose the color they want. Then mix a little glue and a little water in a
cup...give each child a paint brush.
then they can use this mixture to stick on tissue paper squares, confetti,
foil...whatever!
they come out nice and cheerful!!


15)   Stencils- Use stencils to sponge goldfish onto blue or paper that has been 
  bubble printed before hand.
  
  Cotton Tip Painting- Make goldfish and tropical fish from cardboard shapes. 
  Paint them with cotton tips and bright colours. Hang the fish up as a 
  mobile. Hang strips of green cellophane amongst the fish.
  
  Provide fish shapes and a fish mould to be used in sand and water play.
  
   Threading- thread wool through holes punched around the outer perimeter of 
  a fish outline.


16) Seeing "Rainbow Fish" brough back what we did!  We have a local craft store
that sells things really inexpensively.  I purchased what they called
"Bangles" -- large circle sequins -- in assorted colors.  We cut a fish out of
posterboard.  Using both circles of construction paper and those bangles --
encouraging the children to SHARE the bangles just like the Rainbow Fish -- we
filled the fish in.  Really turned out cute


17) Fish Snack

Needed: Blue napkins, medicine cups, pretzels, gold fish crackers, peanut
butter
Open up napkin and place fish in the middle. (The napkin is the ocean.)
Have peanut butter in the cup. (This is the bait cup.)
Use pretzels for fishing rods. Dip in bait (peanut butter) and catch a fish. 
Eat fish and bait. keep fishing until all the fish are eaten.


18) Jellyfish
My children created "jellyfish" today during art for our oceanography unit -
they are adorable!!  I read the post on one of the loops, so this was our
first try.  We took 5 oz. bowls and with water and glue mixture painted the
bottomand undersides of the bowl - decorated with pastel colored tissue paper,
and glitter.  Then we took streamer strips of baby blue, different lengths,
and glued them to the inside of the bowl hanging down.  Hung them from the
ceiling 


19) We brought in a lobster - used it as a stil lifemodel for drawings and
paintings - mixed the colours to get exactly the right hue, counted legs,
claws, etc. Today we defrosted frozen squid! All parts intact. Tommorrow
we'll make drawings and painting, identify the parts we've read about in
books and together make a huge one using paint and cheerios for suction cups
on the tentacles. The real life fish explorations are absolutely wonderful -
but smelly!
We've added the words - fish, lobster , squid, fin, tail, gills, scales,
etc. to our word wall - and most of the fours and fives can print fish.

Books:
From Sea to Sea
One Fish Two Fish - theres a video with that
Rainbow Fish
Swimmy - leo lionni
Fish is Fish - leo lionni
We got many non fiction picture books from the library to search for answers
to the many questions that have come up - many we learned from the
exploration of the fish.


20) ship's porthole / stained glass fish
materials: 2 paper plates, scissors, glue, stapler, crayons/markers,plastic
wrap, sand or cornmeal,pebbles, yarn/sponges/tissue or fabric (precut
construction shapes work too) and goldfish crackers.
1. color thecenter of one plate to look like water.
2. glue sand and pebbles to the bottom of the water.
3. using pieces of yarn etc.. create sea plants and animals by gluing to the
water. glue on the goldfish crackers too.
4. cut out the center of the other plate leaving the rim intact. glue the
p;astic wrap across the cut out opening to form the porthole's glass.
5. staple the two plates together, rim to rim, with the water scene inside.
* i found this works best if you pre glue the porthole window ahead of time
and have some sea plants precut as the child may become frustrated .
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Stained Glass Fish
materials: wax paper 9"x12", liquid starch, paintbrush,black crayon,tissue
paper squares,construction paper, scissors and glue
1. with black crayon draw a large fish shape onto the wax paper.
2. cut out the fish shape and paint it with the liquidstarch.
3. cover the fish with tissue paper "scales" overlapping as desired, adding
starch as needed for the pieces to stick. let it DRY!
4.glue on construction paper details such as eyes,mouth or fins.
5. hang or tape the fish ion a sunny window.
  * make different objects such as flowers hearts stars ect....