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Rainbow Fish Craft ActivityRainbow Fish Craft Activity
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Busy Bee Preschool
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Pre-K - 3rd
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English Language Arts
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Rainbow Fish Craft

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Follow your reading of The Rainbow Fish with this adorable printable. Each pupil gets their own fish to color and their own foil scale to affix to the fish.

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Concepts

the rainbow fish, Coloring, friendship, Fine Motor Skills

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Post all the fish up on a wall or bulletin board to create a school within your school
  • Use this as the final activity after reading and discussing the book

Classroom Considerations

  • The pattern for the foil scale won't fit every scale on the fish; however, kids can fold it al little bit to fit another space if they prefer
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • The printable is high quality
  • Kids will enjoy coloring in the scales and adding their own personal sparkly scale

Cons

  • None

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