Paper Plate Fish Preschool Beach Craft
Summertime is almost here, which means you’re going to need some simple crafts for kids to help them pass the time. If you can’t head to the ocean this year, why not bring the beach to you with a fun craft? This cute preschool beach craft is the perfect way to bring the ocean home! Turn a paper plate into a cute fish with this fun paper plate fish craft.
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Not only is this cute paper plate fish craft easy to make, but you probably already have everything you need to make it at home! Keep reading to find out what supplies you need to turn a paper plate into an adorable ocean fish.
Paper Plate Fish Craft
To make your own preschool beach craft, you’ll just need a handful of simple craft supplies, including
- A yellow paper plate
- Mini cupcake wrappers in yellow, red, green, blue, and purple
- A yellow full-size cupcake wrapper
- Googly eyes
- Glue
- Scissors
Easy Preschool Beach Craft
The first step to making this cute fish from a paper plate is to cut out the mouth. Simply use your scissors to cut a triangle out of the paper plate, then throw the triangle away because we won’t be using it.
Add a googly eye over the top of the mouth. Secure it in place with glue.
Make the paper plate fish’s tail by folding a full-size yellow cupcake wrapper in half, then half again. Glue the pointed end to the back of the paper plate to create a tail on your fish craft.
Set your paper plate fish aside for a minute so you can prepare your fins. Start by flattening your mini cupcake wrappers, then cut each cupcake wrapper in half. Depending on the size of your plate, you’ll need two to three cupcake wrappers of each color. The plate we used was a small dessert plate leftover from a party, so we only used two wrappers of each color. If you’re using a larger plate, you’ll probably need three.
Create the fins on your fish by gluing a row of mini cupcake wrappers along the center of the plate, overlapping each of the wrappers slightly.
Continue adding rows of cupcake wrappers to your paper plate until the entire back half of the plate is covered. You can glue them in rows of each color or vary the colors to create a different rainbow effect.
Beach Themed Craft for Preschool Variations
This adorable beach themed craft for preschool is perfect for little hands! It’s great for helping them with pattern recognition and perfect for practicing fine motor skills. They even get to practice using their scissors to create the fins!
And while this cute paper plate fish craft is perfect for preschoolers, there’s no reason kids of any age couldn’t make this fun fish craft! If you’d like to change up your craft, why not consider one of these easy ideas:
- Paint the plate. If you don’t have a yellow plate at home, any paper plate will work for this craft. If you’d like to spruce up a plain white plate, just add some paint! Paint the fish any color you want, then continue gluing the fins as directed above.
- Dye your cupcake wrappers. Don’t have mini cupcake wrappers in different colors? If you have white cupcake wrappers, you can dye them by painting them with watercolors or dipping them in water tinted with food coloring. Let the cupcake wrappers dry completely, then cut and glue them according to the instructions.
- Use full-sized cupcake wrappers. Maybe you don’t have any mini cupcake wrappers. Don’t worry! You can make this craft with full-sized cupcake wrappers, too. Cut the wrappers in half and glue them according to the instructions. You just won’t need as many of the larger cupcake wrappers to cover the paper plate.
More Fun Crafts for Kids:
Preschool Paper Plate Sun Craft
Pink Paper Plate Flamingo Craft for Preschool
Emily is a midwestern mom of two boys. She loves all things DIY — from home renovations to kids birthday party planning. Whether she’s making a new farmhouse craft for her home or helping her kids with a cool activity, you can bet she’s in the middle of some kind of DIY project (or three) right now!
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