Fish aquarium from a plastic applesauce container

Here's a quick little craft. The trick is using the right paint for the water of the aquarium, and a permanent marker for the fish.

Just use a single serving, clean applesauce container. Paint the inside. We find RichArt's® Clean Colors® Non-Toxic Washable Paint Metallic Blue works the best. Other non-toxic paints we have for some reason don't stick as well to the plastic as this color does.

On the outside draw as many fish as you'd like with a permanent marker. Tada! Instant fish aquarium that mom doesn't even have to clean! =)

A paper fish with multicolored pretty fishy scales

Just draw and cut out a fish on any paper. This fish was made on the back of another craft project.

Cut a bunch of squares about 1" by 1" big out of different colored scrape paper and some aluminum foil, and then round off two corners to make scales.

Put a little glue on a plastic lid and children can dip the flat end of the scales into the glue to paste onto the fish. Have the little craftsters start gluing the scales on the tail end of the fish and work forward with flat edge always forward.

It might be a good time to read "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister too. I didn't even think of it when creating this craft, but the fish is reminiscent of Marcus Pfister's sweet little Rainbow Fish now that I see my finished product. If you have the right color paper, the fish could be made to look even more like the Rainbow Fish in the book.