Craft "Fish": 6 different versions

Children in kindergarten and primary school make crafts from various materials: natural and junk, plasticine and s alt dough, cereals and polystyrene. Works can be created from strips of paper using the quilling and cutting technique. During production, children learn the properties of materials, give objects a second life. Working with their hands, kids learn to create, develop logical thinking and imagination.

In the article we will consider what materials can be used to make fish crafts, we will tell you step by step how to do this work with a child at home.

Big fish

To make such crafts - fish - you need to take a square of colored paper, it is desirable that it be double-sided. Next, you need to bend the sheet in half diagonally. In the resulting double triangle, you need to cut off all the corners. You should get the shape of a trapezoid. Then the bent sheet turns back and on one side is cut into thin strips to the level of the head of the fish. This moment must be determined by eye. But about two thirds of the distance from one end to the other. There should be three slits at the top and three at the bottom.

Then it remains only to correctly fold the strips in pairs and glue them together alongcenter. They start this procedure from the middle of the craft in the form of a fish. The two central strips are first crossed, and the junction is smeared with glue and pressed firmly until completely dry. Further work continues with the second and extreme strips. When all the details are glued together, the fish itself takes on a three-dimensional shape. It remains only to finish the small details: eyes and mouth.

Fish from plates

Very large and colorful fish crafts are made from disposable paper plates. Turning the product on the reverse side, you need to apply the main background with gouache paints. While the plate is drying, let's start making the tail. It is made by folding paper with an accordion. We take thin double-sided glossy paper, and carefully leveling each line with your finger, fold to the end.

Then you need to fold the accordion in half and smooth the fold line well. The inner parts are smeared with glue and glued together. It turns out a triangular accordion tail.

The next step is to assemble the craft - the fish takes shape. To prevent the tail from falling out of the plate, it must be securely fixed there. Since it is upside down, there is an empty space inside. From the back of the plate, where the tail will be located, you need to cut out a few centimeters of the rim to give the “accordion” an outlet. From the inside, the edge of the tail is also smeared with glue and attached to the plate. It remains to draw the eyes and mouth. Instead of scales for this fish, you can stick pieces of torn paper. Then the body drawing will be voluminous, and the craft will be more interesting.

Weaving method

Craft "Fish" from paper can be made by another original method. The interlacing of multi-colored stripes is often used when working with paper. Let's see how to do it step by step. First you need to cut out the shape of the future fish. To make the body symmetrical, you need to draw the contours of the body on paper. First, cut the tail in the shape of a trapezoid, and fold the rest of the sheet in half. Before cutting, you can draw the necessary contours with a simple pencil.

In the middle of the body of the fish, you need to make cuts with scissors, but not completely. Look carefully at the photo with the manufacturing master class. At the end of the work, all that remains is to insert multi-colored strips into the slots, threading through one.

Their edges are glued dotted at the end of each row of weaving. Then you can do it differently. Cut off the remains at an angle to make fins, or you can cut to the shape of a fish. At the end, the eyes and mouth are made.

Quilling method

To perform this work, you need to purchase a set of quilling strips in two colors at the stationery store. If you do not have a special hook, then do not worry, any thin stick will do, for example, the back of a paint brush. The body of the fish is performed by winding the strip freely, without strong tension. If one piece is not enough, then you can glue the next one on the end and continue winding.

When the desired volume is reached, the edge is glued to the PVA glue tolast turn. The ring is carefully pulled off the stick and pressed down a little with fingers on both sides. The shape of the body is ready. Now glue the plane on one side and, gently pressing down with the whole palm, glue it onto a sheet of cardboard. Next work is on the fins. They need to make four pieces of the same size. The method of manufacture is the same, we will not repeat. When all the details are ready, we begin the assembly. Everything, the craft "Fish" is ready. Here are a few more ways.

Crafts from plasticine

Fish is easiest to make for children from plasticine. Let's see how easy it is to make Nemo with this plastic material. First you need to take a large piece of orange and make the main shape of the torso. This is an oval and a triangle for the tail. Next, you will need two colors for the bright black and white stripes inherent in this species of ocean inhabitants.

First, a black stick is made by rolling, then it is flattened and applied to the body of the fish. When all three flattened strips have found their places, we do the same with white plasticine, only the details are taken in a smaller size, so that when the white strip is located on top, the contours of the black one look out from the sides. At the end we make an eye and a side small fin.

S alt Dough Crafts

Fish can be molded from dough mixed with s alt. The body is given the shape of a pointed oval. The mouth is cut with a knife. Fins are also performed with a knife or incision with scissors. And for pushing the scales take a cork or a smalla glass, only one edge is pressed in.

The process resembles modeling from plasticine, only after manufacturing the product will have to be baked in the oven over low heat. When the product is completely baked, you can start coloring the fish from the dough. The craft turns out to be original, and there are a lot of options for creative ideas. To make the work smooth and bright, at the end the craft is covered with acrylic varnish.

Creative success!