Paper plates are a key item in our craft box. They are so useful as a paint palette whenever Jessica is doing painting or as the basis of a craft project. This week we’ve been making a paper plate aquarium.
You will need:
- A blue paper plate (we used a white one that we had painted blue)
- Puffed rice cereal
- Fish shapes cut from coloured card
- Green tissue paper strips
- PVA glue
- Marker pen
1) Spread glue across the bottom half of the plate.
2) Sprinkle puffed rice cereal all over the glue and shake off the excess.
3) Glue on some fish shapes. Draw eyes and mouths on the fish shapes with a marker pen.
4) Add some green tissue paper strips for seaweed. Jessica enjoyed scrunching up the tissue paper and having little seaweed balls too.
She was really pleased with her aquarium. It was such a nice simple pre-school craft activity. I’ll be giving it a try again this week when I run the craft session at toddler group.
We’ve done a similar activity using lentils instead of rice krispies and made the fish by drawing around the child’s hand.
#letkidsbekids
Oh love the sound of that as well 🙂
This is great! My toddlers will love doing this – especially love the puffed rice. Very creative!
Thank you 🙂
Aaaà h bless her she looks so cute crafting away there.xx
Thank you 🙂
A great idea, I’ve never liked rice krispies anyway! Popping by from let kids be kids
Thank you – it’s a good way of using them up! 🙂
That’s a lovely idea for a craft. I love her aquarium she made.
Thanks for sharing #LetKidsBeKids
Thank you Karen – lovely to link up again 🙂
This looks like great fun & really simple too! My son made a really cool one at school using a shoe box on it’s side x
Thank you – the shoebox idea sounds like fun 🙂
Looks lovely! We made one a few weeks ago, and it was a fun project 🙂 #letkidsbekids
Thank you 🙂
Fab! Looks like she’s having a great time 🙂 And, her aquarium is brilliant x #letkidsbekids
Thanks Sara – she had a great time 🙂
I love the rice Krispies for the gravel, a great idea #letkidsbekids
Thank you 🙂
A lovely fishy craft idea. Love the use of the rice krispies for the sea bed. We ve had a go at making goldfish bowls today using paperplates and bubblewrap. #letkidsbekids
Thank you – love the idea of using bubble wrap too! 🙂
Such a cheap and simple idea that looks like it kept Jessica entertained. She looks so sweet too. I used to enjoy making things with the children when they were little, now they’d look at me like I was crackers!
Thank you – we had fun making it 🙂
My girlies would love to do that! Will definitely do at the week-end. x
Hope you enjoying making it! 🙂
They look pretty awesome!!!! #letkidsbekids
Thank you 🙂
Looks like something fun and fairly quick to do before dinner perhaps. Very cute, too!
Thank you 🙂
We love any craft that make use of paper plates. I’ll put this on our list of things to do. #letkidsbekids
Hope you have fun doing it 🙂
I love the concentration on Jessica’s face. The aquarium looks really cute.
Thanks for linking up to #playathometuesdays
Thank you – lovely to link up 🙂
Lucas says – What an AWESOME idea. This is such a cool aquarium………… and if you get a little hungry when making it, you also have a snack available. Works for me!!! Thanks for linking to #minicreations
Thank you – lovely to link up 🙂