DLTK's Educational Activities for Kids
Rainbow Fish Coffee Filter Craft

Tip from Val: To make the Rainbow Fish Crafts look underwater, stick it to a blue sheet of construction paper and glue on top one sheet of slightly crumpled cling wrap.

For an alternate idea see Sarah's suggestion.

Materials:

• coffee filter (we used the brown kind, but white ones work too)
• children's markers (ex:  crayola)
• water
• wiggly eye or paper eye
• tinfoil

Instructions:

• Flatten out coffee filter on a plate.
• Color roughly with various colors of markers - this is wonderful as even the youngest children can color this way.

• Wet coffee filter (using a squirt bottle or by flicking drops of water onto the filter with your hands).
• Set aside to dry for a few hours 
  OR
• blow dry with a hand held blow dryer on low heat for about 5 minutes.  (note:  my girls LOVE blow drying the projects...  I have no idea why *grin*)

• Once dry, cut out a fish shape from the coffee filter (we always save the scraps as they substitute well for any tissue paper projects we might make at a later date).
• Glue on some small strips and triangles of tinfoil.
• Glue on a wiggly eye and draw on a mouth.

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