Splash into a world of fun ocean and sea crafts with this adorable Cupcake Liner Puffer Fish Craft for kids!
This happy little fish puppet is sure to add a wave of joy to your hot summer afternoons!
Splash into Fun with Colorful Cupcake Liner Puffer Fish Puppets!
What’s cooler than a puffer fish? A puffer fish puppet, of course!
Join us to make your very own Cupcake Liner Puffer Fish Puppet! It’s the perfect craft for summer!
It’s super easy to make and is an adorably cute fish craft and puppet in one!
With just a few cupcake liners, you can create the most adorable ocean fish scene right at home. Kids will love having a playful fish friend or two to play and tell stories with!
Craft a Fishy Story!
This under the ocean themed craft is super quick and simple to put together, making it a fun craft for kids of all ages.
All you need are some colorful cupcake liners, a popsicle stick, and a few other crafty bits you probably already have at home. It’s so easy, you’ll be making a whole school of little fish in no time!
Your beautiful fish will all be super cute and super fun to play with too! The addition of a simple popsicle stick handle transforms your cupcake liner craft into a puppet that’s ready for any adventure!
This adorable fish is the perfect summer craft to inspire hours of storytelling and imaginative play. Kids can have so much fun creating ocean adventures for their new underwater friend. What adventures will your adorable fish have in the vast blue ocean?
Snip-Snip Scissor Skills Ocean Craft!
Our puffer fish puppets are bright, colorful, and perfect for summer crafting.
Cupcake liners are the perfect base for making these beautiful fish. Their colors, shapes and texture lend themselves so well to the spiky puffer fish!
This fun fish kids craft is a great way to develop kids’ scissor skills and fine motor skills too. By snipping and cutting out the puffy texture, your cute fish will look just like real spiky puffer fish from the ocean!
This adorable scissor skills craft is sure to float to the top of your list of fun ocean themed activities for summer.
Let’s Make A Cute Cupcake Liner Puffer Fish Craft
So, grab your cupcake liners and popsicle sticks, and let’s make a splash with this fun activity! It’s such an easy and simple craft and a fun idea to do on a hot summer day or at a pool party.
Craft Supplies:
- Colorful Cupcake Liners (We LOVE this rainbow set!)
- Jumbo Popsicle Sticks
- Wiggle Eyes
- Black Marker Pen
- Scissors
- Optional: Herb Scissors
- Glue
How to Make a Puffer Fish With Cupcake Liners
1 – Start by making the fins for your puffer fish puppet. Simply cut a colorful cupcake liner into quarters.
2 – Next, glue each quarter onto a whole cupcake liner so that they stick out on both sides.
3 – Now, turn the puffer fish base into a puppet. Flip it over and use sticky tape to attach a jumbo popsicle stick handle onto the back.
4 – Your puffer fish needs lots of spikes and spines. These are really easy to make with scissors and great for fine motor skill development. Simply cut all around the edge of another cupcake liner. (We like to use herb scissors for this.) If you want a very puffy puffer fish you could repeat this with more cupcake liners.
5 – Now glue the cut cupcake liner(s) onto the front of the puppet. Just glue the middle of the cake liner only to leave the spikes free. You can ruffle the spikes with your fingers a little to make them stand out more and be even more rounded and 3D.
6 – Now all that your cute fishy friend needs is a face. So glue on some little googly eyes and draw a happy smile. Wahoo! Now it’s time to dive into an ocean of fun and play!
Looking for More Cute Fish Crafts for Summer?
Why not make a selection of fish? They could get together with your puffer fish puppets and have lots of fun activities together!
Try these:
- Our Foil Fish is an adorable craft to give your puffer fish puppet a little friend to play with!
- Swimming Fish – these are cute and colorful rainbow fish swimming in the waves! (Printable template)
- Paper Fan Puffer Fish – the bigger cousin to to your cupcake liner puffer fish!
- This Woven Fish Craft is a great thing to do to introduce kids to a simple weaving technique.
More Cute Under the Sea Crafts
We’ve got so many great ocean crafts, you could turn your whole craft room into an under the sea adventure! Check them out to find your perfect project for summer:
- Kids love our Shark Hats. It’s a great craft to wear all summer long!
- Our Whale Puppets are easy to make with our printable template and construction paper
- Jellyfish Windsocks look super cute hanging from the ceiling
- Crab Puppets – have fun scuttling them from side to side.
- Curl Animation Mermaids – These mermaids move right in front of your eyes as if my magic!
- Our Paper Plate Snail doubles up as a colorful garden or sea snail. You take your pick.
And that’s not all…we’ve also got a whole stack of paper plate crafts that all have an ocean theme too!
More Fun Kid Crafts For Summer To Enjoy:
Colorful Cupcake Liner Puffer Fish Craft
Make a cute and colorful cupcake liner puffer fish puppet. So much fun for summer!
Materials
- Colorful Cupcake Liners
- Jumbo Popsicle Sticks
- Wiggle Eyes
- Marker pen
- Scissors
- Glue
Instructions
- To make the puffer fish fins, cut a colorful cupcake liner into quarters.
- Glue the quarters onto the sides of a whole cupcake liner.
- Sticky tape a jumbo popsicle stick handle onto the back.
- Cut all around the edge of another cupcake liner. We like to use herb scissors for this.
- Glue the cut liner onto the front of the puppet. Add some googly eyes and draw a happy smile.