Shoebox aquarium ( you can also make puppet theaters and other story telling designs out of this same kind of box, just choose different types of stickers)
What You’ll Need:
- Shoebox
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Fish stickers
- Bamboo skewers
- Card stock
- Scotch tape
- Paint
- Craft knife
Instructions for the Project:
- Paint the shoebox. Wait to dry and set it on its side
- Decorate the back of the shoebox (inside back) with two layers of wavy blue paper. Also decorate the foreground with a layer of wavy blue paper
- Add small rocks and plants to the bottom of the shoebox
- Place a bamboo skewer down on a piece of heavy paper and press a fish sticker onto the skewer and the paper. Repeat this process for all of your fish stickers
- Cut out all of your fish stickers. Cut small rectangles of card stock
- Take two of the rectangles of card stock and place them together so that they form an “X” shape and punch a hole through the middle of the “X” so that the skewer can fit through it. Repeat this process for all of your skewers.
- Cut two slits down the length of the top of the shoebox, make sure that they are wide enough for the skewers to go through
- Push the skewer end of the skewered fish up through the slits
- Push the card “X”s down over the end of the skewers popping up through the box and tape them into place