Paper Plate Fish Bowl

Paint a paper plate into a fish bowl and glue on some colorful paper fishes. In this art activity, lines and color shades will also be introduced.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors. Wash hands thoroughly after finger painting.
Materials Paper plate Sketch paper Colored pencils or markers Poster paint or water color paint Paint brushes Glue stick Scissors

Steps

	1.	Position a paper plate with the bottom side up. Turn it into a fish bowl by drawing a wavy line to mark the water level.
	2.	Let's learn some basics of creating color shades. Put some blue, black and white paint on your palette. Make sure you've got a lot of the blue paint.
	3.	Transfer some of the blue paint onto one of your empty palette sections. Add a little black to it.
	4.	Put several drops of water and mix. You've just created dark blue. If you add a little black to any color, you come up with a darker shade of that color. The more you add black, the darker the shade becomes.
	5.	Now let's make a light shade of blue. Again, transfer some of your blue paint into an empty section in your palette. Add some white paint to it.
	6.	Add a bit of water and mix. This time you've created light blue. And of course, the more white paint you add, the lighter the shade becomes.
	7.	It's time to paint! Paint the area above the water mark with the light blue color.
	8.	Paint the area below the water mark with the blue paint.
	9.	Make some wavy lines with the dark blue paint. After you're done, set the paper plate aside to dry.
	10.	Draw three fish shapes or print out our fishes template. Cut out the fish shapes.
	11.	Paint or draw details on the fishes. You can make all sorts of lines and patterns or you can go with mostly solid colors.
	12.	Glue the fishes onto the paper plate fish bowl.
	13.	You can finger paint some bubbles if you like!

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