Try this fun and easy fish craft by adding nature items like flower petals and leaves to these free fish printables. Craft and printables by Penny Whitehouse of MotherNatured, photo updates by our Editorial Team.
Updated August 2024
We love this lovely fish craft for kids that uses flowers and leaves. It comes to you, complete with free printables for you to download and use, by Penny Whitehouse of MotherNatured. It’s been on the blog for a few years, and so we decided to try it again and had a blast making these botanical fish!
It’s super simple to print out the fish templates and use flower petals and leaves from the garden as the scales and fins of the fish. You can glue them down so your designs stay or choose a more ephemeral project without glue.
See below for a video showing the fish craft printables in action!
A Fish Craft from Nature Items
MATERIALS
- Free fish template
- Nature items like flowers and leaves
- Glue stick
INSTRUCTIONS
- Gather nature items
The first step is a fun and easy one – go out into your backyard and see how many different leaves and flowers for your fish.
The natural variations in the size, shape and color of leaves, petals and other nature materials means that you get a unique creation every time. - Print out your fish templates
Download the fish templates and print them out! Inside this free printable pack, you’ll find a variety of cute little fish templates just waiting for you to fill in.
- Decorate your fish!
Finally, use the glue stick to attach petals and leaves to your fish.
We had so much fun figuring out which petals worked for the scales, and which worked for the fins.
If you missed it up above, click here to download your free printables!
No matter where you get your inspiration from, our challenge to you is to bring the outdoors into your art in one way or another.
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