Stuffed Paper Fish and Tissue Butterflies

I am woefully behind in updating this blog. This summer seems to have flown by and while we have finished several of the project ideas on the side bar of this blog, we haven't gotten to all of them. Yikes! More fun for Fall I guess!


Here are a couple of pictures of stuffed paper fish we made, patterned after the ones found here. Hiding behind the fish is a scene we made out of a piece of paper the kids had painted a while before. We needed something to do, so I cut out some sea creatures and sea weed and had them glue them on the blue painted paper for a quick activity. I love saving the papers they paint and using them later since at this stage, my kids don't actually paint anything, but just put the paint on the paper. (I like to pretend we are artists like Eric Carle)


Also, a while back we made butterflies out of tissue paper. I'm fairly certain I copied that idea from somewhere, but it's been too long for me to remember where! To make them, do the following:

1. Take two pieces of different colored tissue paper rectangles and crunch them together in the middle. (Color them first if you like)
2. Using one pipe cleaner, twist around middle of tissue paper and curl tops to make antenna.
   

Fast, simple, cheery!