Handprint Fish: Turn Your Hand Into a Colorful Fish

Your hand is already shaped like a fish. The fingers are the tail fin. The palm is the body. All you need to do is trace, cut, and decorate.

Materials

Supplies:

• Construction paper (blue for the bowl, plus one or more colors for the fish)
• 1 googly eye
• Sequins or O-shaped cereal (for bubbles)
• Craft glue or glue stick

Tools:

• Pencil
• Scissors (grownup help needed)
• Black marker

No sequins? Draw circles with a white crayon or cut tiny dots from white paper. No googly eye? Draw one with a marker.

Steps

1. Cut the fishbowl. Cut a large fishbowl shape from blue construction paper. A simple rounded rectangle or oval works.
2. Trace your hand. Spread your fingers apart on a piece of colored construction paper. Trace around your hand with a pencil.
3. Cut out the handprint. Cut along the traced line. This is your fish. The fingers are the tail fin and the thumb sticks out as a top fin.
4. Glue the fish in the bowl. Place the handprint cutout on the blue fishbowl paper with the fingers (tail) pointing to one side. Glue it down.
5. Add the eye. Stick a googly eye on the palm area, near the wrist end. That’s the fish’s head.
6. Draw the mouth. Use a black marker to draw a small curved mouth on the head end.
7. Add bubbles. Glue sequins or cereal pieces near the mouth, trailing upward. Bubbles!
8. Add details. Draw fin lines on the fingers with a marker. Add scales, stripes, or spots to the body if you want.

Grownup help needed: Cutting for younger kids.