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Learning Objective:To be able to create a paper plate fish.

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How do you think you could turn this paper plate

into a fish?

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How to make a simple paper plate fish!

Take a paper plate and carefully cut out a

triangle.

Use the triangle as the tail of the fish by attaching it to the opposite end. The part you cut out is now the tail and the gap is

the mouth.

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There are hundreds of ways you could decorate a paper plate fish. Even though the basic shape is easy to make, you can challenge yourself to make

the decoration more detailed and exciting.

This fish was decorated by painting it with metallic paint to make it

shiny and then adding scales made from holographic card.

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This fish was painted a base colour (yellow) before being sponge painted with different shades of blue and green.

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This fish was decorated using stripes of different coloured felt-tip pens around the edges. It was then painted blue in the centre and sprinkled with

glitter while the paint was still wet. BACK

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How else could you decorate a paper plate

fish? What other materials and

techniques could you use?

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This fish has had a tail and fins added from another paper plate with a smaller mouth cut out. It has been painted to make it look like a clown fish.

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You don’t have to stick to the basic fish shape if you do not want to. There are lots of ways you can adapt a paper plate to make it look more ‘fishy’!

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This fish has had a tail, spikes and a mouth added from another paper plate to make it look like a puffer fish.

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How would you decorate this paper

plate fish?

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What kind of paper plate fish do you want to make?

How will you decorate it?

What colours will you use?