Fun Fish Craft Ideas to Make at Daycare and Kindergarten

Drawing an ‘ocean’ with colored ice

[Summer Craft] Painting with Colored Ice! [For 1-Year-Olds]

Let’s take a peek into an underwater world using refreshing ice paints.

To make ice paint, place your favorite paints or food coloring into each section of an ice tray, add water on top, and mix.

Insert a stick to make a handle, then put it in the freezer until it freezes.

While the ice paint is freezing, draw sea creatures on white drawing paper using a white crayon.

Once the ice paint is ready, brush the colors over the paper with your drawing.

The areas you drew will repel the ice paint, and your picture will magically appear.

If the teachers at a daycare or kindergarten draw the pictures and let the children do the coloring, even very young kids can enjoy this activity with ease!

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Rainbow Fish

[Kindergarten/Daycare] July “The Rainbow Fish” Painting and Craft

This is a July seasonal art project inspired by the popular picture book The Rainbow Fish! First, use dark paint to draw a fish that fills the entire drawing paper.

By sketching a bold outline as the base, the colors will pop and look vibrant when you paint them in.

Once the paint is dry, use crayons or other materials to color the scales however you like! Finish by drawing the fish’s face and embellishing it with small squares of silver origami paper.

Open-ended painting projects like this nurture the creativity of five-year-olds, so be sure to incorporate them actively.

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Let’s create an ocean with scissors and glue

Scissor Practice [Summer Craft] Let’s make an ocean with scissors and glue! Perfect for developing fine motor skills! [For ages 2–3]

This project is perfect for kids to practice using scissors.

First, cut construction paper to make sea creatures.

It’s a good idea to choose animals with lots of legs, like octopuses and squids.

When making an octopus or a squid, don’t cut each leg individually at first—start by cutting a fairly rough overall shape.

Once you have the basic shape, draw straight lines where the legs will be, and have the children cut along those lines with scissors.

On a separate piece of paper, draw zigzag patterns, then cut along the lines to make seaweed.

After everything is cut out, glue the pieces onto a large sheet of construction paper to complete the ocean scene! It’s a fun way to practice scissor skills, so give it a try.

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Goldfish on drawing paper & scoops made from paper plates

[WakuWaku-san’s Craft Workshop] Make an easy “Goldfish Scooping” game and have fun playing it!

Here’s an idea for a goldfish scooping game where you scoop paper goldfish made from construction paper using a poi made from a paper plate.

The poi is a paper plate with the center cut out and a handle attached; its lightness actually makes it harder to control, which increases the game’s challenge.

The goldfish are easy to make too—just roll and fasten strips of construction paper—so overall it’s simple to create.

By shaping the goldfish at an angle, you leave a gap between the table and the goldfish for scooping, so you can adjust the difficulty by tweaking that gap and the poi’s unwieldiness.

Putting care into decorating the goldfish is important as well—aim for cute designs that make people want to scoop them.

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The Rainbow-Colored Fish

[Kindergarten/Nursery] July “Rainbow Fish” Painting and Craft

This is a colorful fish craft made with origami paper, construction paper, crayons, glue, and scissors! Cut colored construction paper into shapes for the fish’s body, tail, and face, then glue them together.

Next, cut various colors of origami paper into strips and glue the inner ends together to form loops.

After that, stick the loops onto the fish’s body to resemble scales, and you’ll have a rainbow fish.

It’s also super cute to combine origami parts to look like the fish’s fins before gluing them on!

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Goldfish you can make in 3 minutes

Summer Origami: Easy Goldfish Origami ⭐︎ A simple origami you can fold in 3 minutes [with voice instructions]. Cute goldfish origami – how to fold a goldfish ​⁠@tentenmimi9626

When summer comes, you feel like folding a cool-looking goldfish out of origami, don’t you? This goldfish is simple and takes about three minutes to make, so please give it a try.

The folding method is very similar to the samurai helmet (kabuto).

Instead of folding the horn parts of the kabuto, imagine folding back the part that goes over the head in the opposite direction.

After that, rotate the origami 90 degrees and fold it back the other way, then cut open and spread out the tail section.

Be careful not to cut your hands when using scissors.

Finish by drawing a cute face.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Wobbling Goldfish

Action Origami “Wobbly Goldfish”

This goldfish origami can be moved to recreate the gentle swaying motion of swimming.

The folding process is similar to the yakko-san, pinwheel, and trick boat models up to a certain point, so it should be easy to get started.

Every part is three-dimensional, and when you move the tail fin, it looks as if the fish is actually swimming, so you can enjoy not only making it but also playing with it.

You can also make it cute by adding eyes with round stickers or a felt-tip pen.

Be sure to give it a try!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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