This week, we concentrated on our amazing hands and we had quite the discussion about what our hands could do.
We used those amazing hands of ours to cut on the line…lots of lines…again and again. We created a fun fish while practicing our line cutting. The children did a wonderful job and those fish were adorable, every one!
Our floppy fish project focuses on beginning skills of cutting straight lines and stopping! "Stay on the line!!" We also focus on making baby glue dots, not glue lakes! These are all great skills that toddlers and beginning preschoolers can work on!
Free Floppy Fish Tutorial
Step 1: First, you'll want to print out the fish body and mouth onto a colored piece of paper! Any color you would like for your fish to be. Print out the other page as well. If you want, do it on a white piece and let the children color it themselves. It adds an extra fun step for children to do.
Step 2. For this step, you can help the children get the fish body cut out and folded, or have them do it themselves. Either way is great! Fold the entire body in half like shown above. We paperclipped the top to help keep it together. Continue to cut out the rest of the fish pieces.
Step 3: Have the child cut on the lines. "Stay on the line!!" as we say in class. Be sure to stop at the black horizontal line.
Step 4: Fold the fish and form it into a sort of triangle, overlapping the bottom two pieces and putting baby glue dots. "Ahh! No glue lakes!"
Step 5: Now you can see the basic fish shape! Oh no! He needs a face and some fins! Put some glue onto the mouth piece and stick it inside the fish mouth with the round part facing out. Say ahhhh!
Step 6: Glue the fins to the underside of the belly, and the tail fin to the end! Hooray! All finished!!
Step 7: Hold onto the floppy fish! Don't let him slip away!
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