CD Fish

We've been learning about the Great Barrier Reef so I wanted to do an activity to go along with it.

We had originally created some different types of coral out of air dry clay

but the clay crumbled as soon as it was dry

So

instead

I saw this cute fish craft on Parents.com 

and 

decided to give it a try

I've been stocking up on CDs for a while now so we could make plenty of fish

and 

I keep jars of little doodads such as

buttons, sequins, beads, glass stones, dried beans

etc.

so I set everything out in front of Miss C and let her go to town.

She basically did this whole activity by herself

since I let her use the glue gun 

She did burn herself and pouted a bit

but realized 

that she wasn't paying close enough attention to what she was doing

and after a little cry

picked up the glue gun and started up again

We were having so much fun creating our fish 

that 

Daddy joined in

and

made a ray-type fish

Our colorful reef fish swimming around in the girls room

This is a quick and simple craft that can be as unique as the creator wants them to be.

I guarantee that no two will look alike!

unless you want them to 

of course