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Glue Fish

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Grade: 3-8   •   Age: 7-12  •  Written by: Karen Larmour & KinderArt®
[Karen is a teacher at Salem Baptist Christian School, Winston Salem, North Carolina]


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What You Need:

  • Black construction paper (or poster paper)
  • White glue (we used Crayola® School Glue, which dries clear)
  • Oil pastels (we used Sakura Cray Pas® Junior Artist oil pastels)

What You Do:

  1. Students draw the outline of a fish on large paper. Black poster paper works best.

  2. Encourage them to add scales, fins and any other detail they would like.

  3. Students then trace over their drawn lines with glue and allow the glue to dry (preferably overnight).

  4. Students then color in the areas between the glue lines, with oil pastel. The brighter the better.
Note from Karen: We entered some of the fish in a local art show and won best in show.

Note from KinderArt: We used Sakura Cray Pas® Junior Artist brand oil pastels and Crayola® School Glue (it dries clear)

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Recommended Products

Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels

Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels - Class Pack

Easy to use, fun and safe, these student-quality oil pastels help to build basic art skills in classrooms worldwide. Children can achieve oil painting effects without the mess of paint. Junior Artist Oil Pastels produce bright, intense colors. They contain pigments that blend easily and last without fading. Ideal for texture rubbing, blending, scratch art, almost any coloring project. Individual pastels are round, measuring 2-3/8" × 5/16" (60 mm × 8 mm), and have paper sleeves. Non-toxic, they conform to ASTM D 4236. The Colorpack offers a convenient and economical way for schools, camps, youth centers, and daycare centers to purchase, organize, and store Cray-Pas Oil Pastels. The sturdy cardboard box contains 432 pastels in all, 36 each of the following colors — Black, Orange, Purple, White, Yellow, Green, Cobalt Blue, Yellow Green, Pale Orange, Red, Pink, and Brown. Individual pastels are round, measuring 2-3/8" × 5/16" (60 mm × 8 mm).



Crayola School Glue school glue
Makes glue projects cleaner and easier for your students. All Crayola School Glues are non-toxic and washable. Bottles feature a "no clog" tip and "no lose" cap that attaches to the back of the applicator. No-run formula dries clear and resists cracking. Recommended for kids 5 and up.

Recommended Books:

Fish (An Eyewitness Book)
by Steve Parker, Dave King, Colin Keates
Photographs and text explore the characteristics, habitats, and variety of fishes and other undersea life.

The Rainbow Fish
by Marcus Pfister


© Karen Larmour & KinderArt®
Artwork created by students at Deer Island Community School in New Brunswick, Canada

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