Goldfish to Piranha

This project can be done by all year levels (younger children may need some assistance with folding paper). Older students can add more intricate details and more visual information to their backgrounds.

Watch the YouTube link and follow the instructions to create your fish. There are also some sample pictures below.

Sarcha & Jenna-Lee

Jordanne & Jennifer

Angel (Georgina)

Koi Fish

This was such a relaxing project! I worked with a group of Year 6-7 ESL students who had a Ocean classroom theme. We looked at lots of pictures and photographs of Koi fish and talked about the unique patterns that each one had. Each student came up with their own design and then painted with ink. The results were stunning!

Clay - Project 4 - 'Eggs'

This is definitely on the trickier side. However, it lets the kids really lets their imaginations loose as to what creature they will create. The molds used were created using an ice-cream container, plaster and a polystyrene ball.

Add circular pieces of clay and don't press too hard - the idea is for it to retain the circle pattern on the outside of the 'egg'.

Use a piece of clay to pull the 'egg' away from the side of the mold.

These are just two ideas of what the 'egg' could be made into!

Thanks to Ann Murray for her fabulous ideas!

Fish on Marbled Paper Waves

A great easy project for junior year levels. We used some fish templates but you could just as easily draw your own. We did some paper marbling and then, when they were dry, we drew 'wavy' lines. We cut along each line and then collaged them to create a layered effect.

We coloured our fish and then used sequins and googly eyes to decorate them. You could always add some glitter as well! Rather than glue our fish down, we added a velcro dot - this way the kids could reposition their fish or use them for storytelling.