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Coffee filter rainbow fish craft

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

color coffee filter

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.