Sea crafts from paper plates with your own hands: we make together with the children

Handmade on a marine theme allows you to prolong the summer and its pleasant memories. These fun paper plate crafts for kids will take you to the sea and its cool waters. Creative ideas will entertain kids and give them a cheerful mood.

Stingray

One of the fish that surprises kids the most is the electric stingray. Its peculiar shape and the way it floats on the bottom of the ocean, where it seems that it is flying, make this sea animal special in the eyes of children.

Materials:

• disposable paper plate
• deep cardboard bowl
• scissors
• glue
• acrylic paint and brushes
• a pair of plastic movable eyes.

Technique:

1. Cut out the center of the paper plate, leaving only the outer circle with small indentations.
2. Pass a deep plate through the formed circle and glue.
3. Paint the shape purple.
4. Let the paint dry, then make a few white strokes with the brush.
5. Surround another plate to create a tail. Cut out the shape, paint it with purple paint and white spots, and glue it on the bottom.
6. Glue on the eyes.
7. With your hands, bend the sides of the ramp slightly to form the fins.

Porthole

Dreaming about the seabed is easier with this craft. This version is intended for slightly older children as it includes more details.

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• silver paint
• figurines of marine life, shells
• blue paper
• polyethylene film
• glue
• scissors.

Technique:

1. Lay one of the plates face up on the work surface.
2. Cut out a circle on blue paper according to the diameter of the plate, glue it to the front side of the plate.
3. Draw algae and sea plants on blue paper. Glue fish and other marine life to the bottom. Let the piece dry.
4. Take another plate and cut out the center circle corresponding to the deepest part of it.
5. Paint the back of the plate you cut out silver.
6. Place blue cellophane paper between both plates and glue one to the other to complete the porthole.

Diver mask

Invite your children to become scuba divers for a while. These crafts are perfect for inviting your favorite toys down to the bottom of the sea.

Materials:

• paper plate
• blue cardboard
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• ice cream stick.

Technique:

1. Cut out the inner circle of the plate.
2. On blue cardboard, draw diving goggles and a snorkel, then cut them out.
3. Glue the pieces to the back of the plate.
4. Glue a wooden popsicle stick onto the inside of the mask.

Dancing jellyfish

Watch how to make funny jellyfish from cardboard plates step by step.

Materials:

• 1 cardboard plate
• cardboard sheet
• pink and blue paint
• brush
• pencil
• ice cream stick
• stationery knife
• scissors
• colorful wool
• a pair of plastic eyes.

Technique:

1. On a piece of cardboard, draw and cut out an inverted “U” shape. This will be the body of the jellyfish.
2. Paint the jellyfish pink and let it dry.
3. In the meantime, paint the inside of the plate blue. When it dries, make an incision in the center with a clerical knife.
4. Take the body of a jellyfish and glue threads of the same size to the base. Glue the eyes in the center of the figure.
5. Turn it over and glue a strip of thick paper on the back. connecting figurine with an ice cream stick.
6. Insert an ice cream stick with a jellyfish glued on it into the cut of the plate.
7. Now all you have to do is move the wand left and right to make the jellyfish dance around the plate.

Bright fish

Fill your child’s room with colorful fish that will delight you on summer days. Try hanging them from a ceiling or light fixture with string and you’ll see how they change the decor of any room.

Materials:

• cardboard plates
• paints of different colors
• paint brush
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• plastic eyes.

Technique:

1. Start by cutting out the details of the tails, fins and mouth of the fish on white plates. Glue the parts onto the blank plate.
2. When you already have different fish shapes, cut them out and color them in different colors.
3. Color one plate yellow, another green, a third orange, and the last pink. Let them dry.
4. With a brush, draw on a yellow plate several vertical lines crossing the entire plate.
5. On the green fish, draw the head, tail and fins with a bluish tint and put a few dots along the body.
6. From an orange blank, make a clown fish. To do this, you need to decorate the background with a few white stripes outlined in black paint. It can also be done with a marker.
7. Decorate the pink plate with black lines on the tail and fins. Finally, paint the head in the same color.
8. Once the paint is dry, glue on the eyes.