As well as being great to decorate at home with your child this template would also make a great resource for preschools and classrooms. This fun bottle cap fish craft is fun to make in the summer, when learning about the ocean or when reviewing shapes or colors. The fish are made from bottle caps and foam. After adding painted fish bubbles, tissue paper seaweed and paper ocean creatures, you have a pretty underwater scene! Letting kids experiment with different colours, shading techniques, and even textures if you incorporate materials like paint and glitter, will encourage them to think creatively and learn how to make artistic decisions about colour and colour placement. Building on these skills as a young child lays the foundation for development and growth in the later stages of education. We have yet to meet a child that doesn't love looking at aquariums and, with this craft, your children can make one of their very own. This aquarium craft is a simple preschool craft that will encourage your kids to be creative. Use our template to print and cut out some plain fish that your children can decorate anyway they would like.

Colouring is not just a fun activity for children, but also an important formative part of education. It’s one of the best ways for children to strengthen their fine motor skills and confidence in holding and using pens and pencils. This means that there’s a direct link between practising colouring in and handwriting. You could use your student's finished templates to create a beautiful classroom display on the topic of ocean life. Once decorated, they can be used to add a splash of colour to the walls, doors and windows of your learning space. Other sea life resources you may like:

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Mosaic: Grab scrap paper, junk mail or construction paper and cut out shapes to glue onto your fish template. Do you have a treasured photo of your child catching their first fish or going on their first fishing trip? This fishing frame craft is the perfect way to display it and your kids will have a blast creating it! This fish craft is made from unfinished wood pieces and a little bit of paint and wire (though you could use string instead). This is also a great homemade gift for a fisherman in the family. With these amazing resources, you will be able to teach your students about the fascinating and diverse forms of life that can be found under the waves. You will also be able to introduce them to food chains and the role that they play in maintaining biodiversity in the oceans.

Need a fun and simple fish craft to do with a toddler? This fish craft is perfect for toddlers. Print out our fish template and let your kids use the materials and their imagination to make their unique fish. With all of our free printable templates we like to share a few ideas of ways in which you can use them so you can start a fun new art project, create a cool craft or just use them as coloring sheets, the choice is yours.Turn your child's handprint into a cute fish swimming in a fish bowl with this handprint fish craft. This fish craft for kids is a great way to entertain your children while creating a keepsake for yourself! Making this handprint fish craft is very simple and with fun materials (dried beans for gravel) your child will love it. Try squishing balls of playdough to make scales to place on your fish shape, if you have a lot of different colors you could also use this as an activity for The Rainbow Fish. Your ocean themed lessons would be a perfect opportunity to discuss with your children the dangers of plastic pollution and it’s negative impact on our oceans. You can use this PowerPoint to start your discussion with your class. I’ve shared tons of free printables to help you get creative with your kids and ocean animals have to be one of our most popular topics! Use our template to make this fun magnetic fishing game for your kids! A magnet and some paper clips turn a handful of paper fish into a great preschool activity. Our game started out simple (a way to practice hand-eye coordination with our toddler daughter), but we'll soon try writing letters or numbers on the fish to make it a fun preschool learning activity! Please make sure to supervise your children while they play this game as it uses magnets, small paper clips and length of string.

Can you make a ‘Treasure hunt’ game? With clues to help find, stars, bean bags, balls, cakes, biscuits, a dog? Super Hero capes. As you can print as many copies as you like it would be perfect for giving a sheet to each child to decorate that you can then cut out and use as an under the sea bulletin board display. You could also add some of our other ocean themed templates that I’ve shared below. We can point at numerous beautiful under the sea display resources and also crafting ones, where you could let the children make the displays themselves for a unique result. You could pass them around the class while learning about different things that are found under the sea. In case you want the images in different sizes or colours we also offer an editable version. This fish picture frame craft turns a simple unpainted wooden fish shape into a fantastic frame for your favorite picture. This fish craft makes a fantastic homemade gift or decoration. It is a fantastic preschool craft - perfect for children to use their imaginations to come up with their own special fish.As well as these printable fish templates, we also have a huge range of resources that will help to support your teaching of ocean life to your students. Your students could colour their fish in with pencils or crayons, or if they are feeling more adventurous, try using things like glitter, foil or magazine cut-outs to make a fantastic collage. Twinkl has lots of resources you can use to teach your children all about the oceans and what lies beneath! You could make some fantastic under-the-sea themed display walls to make your children’s learning environment really exciting. There are PowerPoints to teach your class about the different oceans and there are some fun activities for your children to do in groups. We have taken a dive through the Twinkl resources and caught these which we think you might find useful: This seahorse template is a great one for decorating and here you can see the bleeding tissue paper craft that we tried out using it. Construction paper shapes (made with our printable template) make up this cute shape fish craft. This fish craft is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to help them learn to identify and name their shapes. It's also a great learning tool to show your children that putting different shapes together is a fun way to create new things. This fish craft is easy to do and your kids will love it.

Why not try our fun book for children Starry-Eyed Stan about a starfish and friends? Hear an extract with the storytelling video below. What kind of things are under the sea?Our shark template is always really popular and it’s one that we’ve used to do a fun painting activity with too.