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Fish Paper Bag Puppet Craft

Prep Time: 12 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 27 minutes
Need a fun craft for ocean animal unit studies? This fish paper bag puppet craft is perfect and comes with a free printable template!
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Author: Sam
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Materials

  • Brown paper bag
  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Fish template

Instructions

  • Download the fish template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  • Optional: To have a colorful background, glue blue paper onto the flap and main portion of the brown paper bag.
  • Create the fish's head by gluing the face to the end of the head.
  • Place the eye above the mouth and glue it in place.
  • Take the smaller top and bottom fin and secure them with glue on the fish's head.
  • Next, create the body by gluing the tail fin to the back of the fish's body.
  • Glue the main top and bottom fin to the body piece, then glue the side fin in the middle of the body.
  • Turn the paper bag sideways, with the flap portion on the left, and glue the body on the main piece, just below the flap.
  • Finish by aligning the head to the body and glue it to the flap portion of the paper bag.