Egg Carton Fish Craft
Let’s make some fun fishy fishy fishies! Are you ready for a trip under the sea? How about we make this adorable Egg Carton Fish Craft? These fish are so fun and such a great, colorful last minute summer craft.
It’s nearing the end of the summer season here, but it’s also still blazing hot outside. One last sweat-fest before summer ends. But that just means it’s perfect to make some more fun summer crafts, and this fish craft is a great one to craft together. Especially when the afternoon is too hot for much of anything else.
Egg Carton Colorful Fish Craft
To make our adorable, colorful egg carton fish you will need paper egg cartons, acrylic paint in your color of choice, pipe cleaners in the same, a white paint pen, small googly eyes, a hole punch, and scissors.
Egg Carton Fish Craft Supplies Needed
- Egg carton
- Acrylic paint – colors of choice
- Pipe cleaners – colors of choice
- White paint pen
- Googly eyes, small
- Single hole punch
- Scissors
Summer Fish Craft Step by Step Directions
Begin with an empty and clean paper egg carton.
Carefully cut out the individual cups. An adult may be needed for this part.
Then, paint the cups in the paint color of your choice. Let the paint dry completely.
While the paint is drying, grab a pipe cleaner in the color of your choice. Mix and match with the paint color or go completely wild, it’s up to you. Bend the pipe cleaner into an MM type shape, so basically two Ms formed together, to form a tail fin.
Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together to secure.
Next, when the paint on the egg carton cup is dry, punch a hole at the back of the cup.
Bend the twisted ends of the pipe cleaner over, so it’s more substantial and won’t move as much in the hole, then insert in the pipe cleaner tail fin in the hole.
Add googly eyes to the front of the fish. Self-adhesive googly eyes work great here.
Now, use a white paint pen to draw a small circle mouth.
Finally, draw some wavy scale lines on the sides of the fish, too.
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More Fish Crafts for Kids
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Egg Carton Fish Craft
Use paper egg cartons and pipe cleaners to make this fun and colorful egg carton fish craft
Materials
- Egg carton
- Acrylic paint - colors of choice
- Pipe cleaners - colors of choice
- White paint pen
- Googly eyes, small
- Single hole punch
- Scissors
Instructions
- Begin with an empty and clean paper egg carton. Carefully cut out the individual cups. An adult may be needed for this part.
- Then, paint the cups in the paint color of your choice. Let the paint dry completely.
- While the paint is drying, grab a pipe cleaner in the color of your choice. Mix and match with the paint color or go completely wild, it’s up to you. Bend the pipe cleaner into an MM type shape, so basically two Ms formed together, to form a tail fin.
- Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together to secure.
- Next, when the paint on the egg carton cup is dry, punch a hole at the back of the cup.
- Bend the twisted ends of the pipe cleaner over, so it’s more substantial and won’t move as much in the hole, then insert in the pipe cleaner tail fin in the hole.
- Add googly eyes to the front of the fish. Self-adhesive googly eyes work great here.
- Now, use a white paint pen to draw a small circle mouth.
- Finally, draw some wavy scale lines on the sides of the fish, too.