A beautiful artificial "aquarium" of fish using the macrame technique, from scraps of fabric, beads, lego is easy to make together with your child, on your own, if you have asked a task in the lesson or you want to have an interesting time on weekends.
This is a hobby, arts and crafts, trash art.
Fabric fish
To make a DIY fish craft from fabric, you need to draw a sketch. On a notebook sheet in a cage, a fish of the desired shape is drawn.
This could be:
- Whale,
- Scat,
- Gold fish,
- Jellyfish,
- Octopus,
- Sea Horse.
The sketch is applied to the fabric and fixed with invisible pins. It is better to use a material with a high density, bulky fabric that does not wrinkle, such as felt, drape, wool, felt.
- A square or rectangular flap is needed.
- The sketch is sewn to the flap with a basting stitch along the main lines.
- From the seamy side, all the details of the fish will become noticeable.
- The paper sheet can now be removed and threaded into the basting stitches of the beautiful ribbon color.
- The edges of the canvas are carefully wrapped.
- The fish is placed in an aquarium.
The craft can be used as an applique, to create paintings, as an independent element in the layout of an aquarium or a character in a puppet theater, a fragment of a decorative curtain.
From a foam sponge
The bright palette of foam rubber sponges for dishes or cleaning, some washcloths looks charming. The porous texture is similar to soap bubbles.
How to make a craft fish out of them? It's not hard. You can make several large and small fish at once to decorate a bathroom, courtyard, artificial reservoir, a window sill near a table fountain or the fountain itself.
- You will need several rectangular foam sponges of different colors so that you can make a fish with an expressive fin and eyes.
- Choose the right color for the torso sponge.
- It should be divided in length into three approximately equal parts.
- Marking is applied with a marker or chalk.
- A thread should be wound around the edges of the rectangle, giving the product a rounded shape.
- From sponges of a different color, you need to cut out the tail, fin, sew to the oval part.
- Chenille wire, decorative feathers, ribbons, yarn - you can choose different materials for combs, tail, if you don't have the right color of foam rubber at hand.
Crafts from brushwood and branches
Thin branches that fall from trees in windy weather can be used to make simple crafts such as fish. It is desirable to find even branches. For a small craft, a few rods are enough.
- They should be laid out on the table, neatly connected together with a thread or bundle in the center.
- Draw fish on paper.
- Move the contour and cut the rods, each branch so as to give the craft the desired shape.
- So that they do not crumble, you need to wrap them with threads around the edges, at the head and at the tail of the fish, glue the thread if they are not held firmly.
- The fin and tail are made from grass or yarns.
A fish made of branches can be hung on a cornice, glued to a flower capsho, and placed in a makeshift aquarium.
Glitter paper fish
In no time at all, you can make a beautiful craft fish out of paper or thin colored cardboard.
- It is necessary to divide the A4 sheet into three parts in length.
- Fold one wide tape formed in half.
- Cut a triangle along the fold of the sheet in the center. These will be the fins of the fish.
- Another triangle for the tail must be cut from the remaining sheet of cardboard.
- The strip must be folded again and fixed in this position with a stapler.
- You also need to glue the tail and fin, draw or glue the plastic eyes of the fish.
- Sequins are glued to the bottom on both sides.
The craft can be placed on a desk or on a bookshelf, or decorated with a pencil holder so that the mood is always great.
Diamond-shaped bulk fish made of paper
A wide strip of paper should be cut in two thirds on one side, as if wanting to make it shorter.
- Again, bend and thread the second edge into the resulting slot.
- The leaf will look like a whale.
- And so that you can immediately recognize it, you need to glue or draw eyes, teeth.
From plastic spoons
You can make a fantastically beautiful fish from disposable spoons:
- The handle of the spoon is shortened by two-thirds;
- The remainder is cut into two strips;
- A small triangle-mouth of the fish is cut out on the spoon on one side;
- At the top, you need to draw an eye with a marker.
Photo crafts fish will surprise your friends. Such a craft is useful for a windmill, as a decoration for a flower pot, to create a complex artistic composition of several elements.
Fish from plastic spoons can be made completely different, large. Spoons are very similar to the scales of real fish. You just need a sheet of cardboard and either a fish or a sea urchin will appear.
Miracle fish with diamond embroidery
The diamond embroidery technique will help to make a fantastically beautiful fish. For work, you will need a regular 220 W light bulb, double-sided tape or silicate glue, sequins.
You need to choose a marine life. It could be a whale, a shark. For crafts Goldfish, you can give preference to the diamond mosaic. With the glitter of sequins, the fish will look great.
- On the lamp, you need to draw outlines with a marker - eyes, head, fins.
- To make a tail, chiffon, organza, lace, lurex yarn or ribbons are useful.
- The chiffon is glued to the lamp base and tied over with lurex threads.
- Sequins of different colors are glued to the lamp itself.
- When the work is completed, you can set the craft on a stand made of cardboard, pebbles, so that it is more static.
- A less complex craft fish for children from a light bulb can be made using acrylic paints or watercolors, gouache.
- The lamp along the contour must be painted, glued to the base of ribbons, organza, ribbons, lace.
- You can also decorate the piece with sequins, but place them in a less complex pattern so that the work is completed faster and more fun.
Original things, interesting toys, crafts on the theme of nature, animals, fish can be done in one evening, a couple of hours.
Talking fish
Fish with moving parts can also be easily crafted.
- For this you need ordinary clothespins, cardboard, markers of several colors or watercolors, gouache.
- Cut a circle out of cardboard with a small additional margin for the tail, divide it into two parts.
- The fish will also be in two parts. One should draw eyes.
- Contour and cut out one tail fin.
- On the second part, they also draw the fin of the tail divided in half, cut it out along the contour.
- On the other side, you need to glue an additional piece of paper with a drawn outline of the waves, a ship with a sail, or another small fish, a treasure chest.
- The fish should be painted in the colors you like.
- The upper part of the fish is glued to the side of the clothespin, which usually holds the linen on the rope.
- The other half of the clothespin needs to be sharpened a little with a clerical knife or file and the second part of the sea monster should be glued.
- Now, by pressing on the free edges of the clothespin, you can set the applique in motion.
The fish seems to be talking, not letting go, however, the ship into the ocean.
Photo crafts fish
