Paper Plate Fish Bowl

Turn a paper plate into a lively fish bowl by decorating your pet fishes with lots of colorful lines and patterns. In this activity, the basics of creating color shades will also be introduced.

Materials Needed

  • Paper plate
  • Sketch paper
  • Colored pencils or markers
  • Poster paint
  • Paint brushes
  • Palette
  • Spoons
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors

Paper Plate Fish Bowl

Safety Guidelines

  • Wash hands thoroughly after finger painting.
  • Always let your child use child-safe scissors.

Steps

Step 1 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 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.
Step 2 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 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.
Step 3 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 3. Transfer some of the blue paint onto one of your empty palette sections. Add a little black to it.
Step 4 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 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.
Step 5 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 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.
Step 6 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 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.
Step 7 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 7. It's time to paint! Paint the area above the water mark with the light blue color.
Step 8 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 8. Paint the area below the water mark with the blue paint.
Step 9 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 9. Make some wavy lines with the dark blue paint. After you're done, set the paper plate aside to dry.
Step 10 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 10. Draw three fish shapes or print out our fishes template. Cut out the fish shapes.
Step 11 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 11. Use colored pencils or markers to decorate the fishes. Draw the eyes and mouth on each one. Decorate your fishes's bodies with lines and patterns. You can use different types of lines such as wavy, straight, zigzag, curved or curly lines. You can also make some stripes, spots, spirals, or other patterns on them.
Step 12 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 12. Glue the fishes onto the paper plate fishbowl.
Step 13 Paper Plate Fish Bowl 13. Use your finger or the opposite end of your paint brush to paint some water bubbles.