Colorful 3D Paper Plate Fish Craft (and our 10 Favorite Fish Books!)

Today I've got another unique paper plate craft to add to our ever growing list of paper plate crafts. Recently I transformed several paper plates into beautiful 3D fish. Then, my son and I got to work painting them with all the vibrant colors of the rainbow!

Awesomely colorful, 3D Paper Plate Fish

Kids Paper Plate Fish Craft- Make Paper Plate fish with kids and our 10 favorite Fish books

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As always, here's a great list of our favorite fish books to go along with this beautiful and fun kids craft!

Out 10 Favorite Kids Fish Picture Books

The Pout-Pout Fish
The Rainbow Fish
Fish is Fish
Hooray For Fish
Mr. Seahorse
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Ten Little Fish
Swimmy
This is Not My Hat
Cat in the Hat

Let's Make Colorful 3D Paper Plate Fish!

Print out my free Paper Plate Fish Template and cut out the pieces.

Fold the paper plate in half and then trace the pieces.

Then, cut them out.

Cut out the 3 slits in the fish's body. (I folded the body to start the slits.)

Stick the top fin through the top of the fish.

Then, cut a little slit in the bottom of the fin. Push down 1/2 one way and the other 1/2 the other way. Then, tape them down to the bottom of the body.

Now you're going to connect both bottom slits together. Cut 1/2 of one slit from the front and cut 1/2 of the other slit from the back. Now the fins should slide into one another.