Have a variety of spare craft buttons laying around in your craft supplies?

Heres a fun way for you and your kids to turn them into asimple button fish craft.

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Supplies Needed:

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Directions:

1.

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Glue it to the bottom of your blue cardstock paper.

Set aside the extra lunch bag in your paper scraps bin to use for another project.

Make & glue fish

Cut out triangle shaped tail fins for your fish from scrap pieces of paper.

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Arrange your buttons on your blue cardstock paper where you want to add your fish.

Make ocean plants

Crinkle up sever pieces of green tissue paper pieces.

Glue them along the bottom of your paper to make ocean plants.

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Add eyes & draw a face

Glue small googly eyes onto each of your fish.

Then use a fine tip black marker to draw a mouth on each of your fish.

Add bubbles

Finish your fish craft by adding paper hole reinforcers around each of your fish to make bubbles.

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