Create and Craft - Underwater

Anemone is not the enemy

by Anna McGregor

Anemone lives alone in the rock pool. The tide comes in and the tide goes out. All Anemone wants is a friend, but friends are hard to make when you accidentally sting everyone who comes near you. Perhaps Clownfish has a solution to the problem.

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The rainbow fish

by Marcus Pfister

The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

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Louie and Snippy save the sea

by Collette Dinnigan and Grant Cowan

Louie and his trusty companion, Snippy the dog, dream they are diving into an ocean and swimming amongst all the sea creatures. Soon they discover it's not the world they were dreaming of and their adventure takes a turn... What will Louie be inspired to do?

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Octopus Socktopus

by Nick Sharratt

Knock Knocktopus! Who's there? A Toffee Choctopus? Yum! A Party Frocktopus? Nice! A Scary Shocktopus? Help! Lift the flaps and join in the octopus fun!

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Chester and Gil

by Carol Faulkner and Ann James

Who would have thought goldfish could be so unique? Chester and Gil live in the same goldfish bowl. While Gil just floats around the same old place, Chester knows he can save the world. His motto — 'Life is what you make it' — takes on epic dimensions in this funny story of a fishy odd couple and the power of thinking big.

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Who fed Zed?

by Amelia McInerney and Adam Nickel

Zed the fish is white and red. His poo hangs down in one long thread. The main thing, though, is what Fred said, 'Never, ever feed Zed bread'.

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Sea anemone triorama

For this craft you will need:

• 2 google eyes
• 1 square of blue card
• 1 piece of thick frieze tape or card 15cm long
• Crepe paper
• 1 pipe cleaner (make sure your frieze tape, crepe paper and pipe cleaner are all the same colour)
• Some green tissue paper or wool

Directions:

• Fold your blue square corner to corner, open up and then turn 90 degrees and fold corner to corner.
• Cut along one line and overlap two flaps to make your triorama background.
• Sticky tape your purple band into a loop.
• Use pipe cleaners and crepe paper to create anemone’s tentacles.
• Decorate your triorama like a rock pool.

Recycled CD fish

For this craft you will need:

• An old cd
• Coloured paper – you can use what you have lying around, paint some paper and cut out, use confetti etc
• Template(PDF, 389KB)
• String or wool

Directions:

• Print your template onto colour card and cut out
• Cut your coloured paper into small, irregular shapes like scales
• Decorate your fish, gluing on the scales and then the template pieces including the eyes and lips
• Once your fish is dry, thread the string through the middle hole of the CD and tie up.
• You can hang your fish in a window to catch the light, or in a tree outside.

Paper bowl sea turtle

• Template(PDF, 253KB)
• A paper bowl
• Green and brown paper or crepe paper
• 2 google eyes

Directions:

• Print your template onto green card and cut out
• Decorate the underside of the bowl with the green and brown crepe paper to look like a turtle shell
• Using a stapler or sticky tape, attach the turtle’s fins and head to the edge of the bowl.
• Using glue, stick on the eyes to the turtle’s head.             

Googly goldfish

• Orange crepe paper
• Orange paper or card
• x1 paper cup
• a small piece of string
• googly eyes
• sticky tape and/or glue

(PDF, 253KB)

Directions:

• Cut up some small strips of crepe paper for the tail. Wrap the rest of your paper around the cup and secure with sticky tape.
• Tape your streamers on the end of the goldfish’s tail.
• Cut out two fins from the card and secure to the sides with sticky tape. 
• Glue two googly eyes on near the lip of the cup.
• Tape both ends of the string to the inside of the cup for a fishy handle.

Voila!