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Paper Fan Puffer Fish Craft

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Do you like fish? We sure do! How about making your own fun and easy PAPER FAN PUFFER FISH CRAFT. It’s the perfect summer craft for a warm and sunny day!

These colourful puffer fish are really easy to make and will look great on your wall or hanging from the ceiling. We’ve hung ours up where they can spin in the breeze. It’s like being in an underwater scene! My kids love watching them swim around the room!

2 Paper Fan Puffer Fish Crafts on a blue background. The one on the right is purple and orange, the one on the left is yellow and red.

There are so many amazing types of fish and they’re all so cool but the puffer fish always really captures our imaginations. How they can blow themselves up to escape predators is incredible and why they’re also known as blowfish too. If your kids would enjoy learning more about puffer fish check out National Geographic Kids.

A collage of Paper Fan Puffer Fish Crafts in lots of different colours on a blue background. They are overlaid with text saying "Puffer Fish - Paper craft for kids".

This paper fan puffer fish craft is made from folded paper so it’s easy to make them in all sorts of sizes and in any colours you fancy. Keep reading for instructions to make your own fun fish. All you need is some paper, scissors, and glue. Let’s get started!

Three Paper Fan Puffer Fish Crafts lying on a blue table top. each fish has a string to hang them from and they are all different colours.

How to Make A Puffer Fish From Paper

Supplies:

  • Coloured Paper
  • Coloured Yarn
  • 1 1/2 Inch Hole Puncher
  • 1 Inch Hole Puncher
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Sticky Tape

Fan Puffer Fish Tutorial

Fan Puffer Fish Craft step 1.

1 – Choose two coloured sheets of A4 or letter sized paper and concertina fold them. (Tip: It’s easy to get even sized folds by first folding your paper in half, then half again, and again, and again and then unfolding it. It leaves even creases to use when you concertina fold. )

Puffer Fish Craft step 2.

2 – Glue the two pieces of fanned paper together.

Puffer Fish Craft step 3.

3 – Tie a piece of yarn around the middle. 

Puffer Fish Craft step 4.

4 – Pull the two same coloured sides together and glue into place to make a circular fan for the puffer fish body.

Puffer Fish Craft step 5.

5 – To make your puffer fish fins repeat step 1 but with just half a sheet of A4 or letter sized paper. Then cut the paper fanb in half.

Puffer Fish Craft step 6.

6 – Wrap a little sticky tape around one end of the fins to keep them shut and fan the other end out. 

Puffer Fish Craft step 7.

7 – Sticky tape the fins onto the back of the puffer fish body. If you want to hang your fish up, sticky tape a length of coloured yarn at the top too.

Puffer Fish Craft step 8.

8 – Cut three white paper circles using a 1 1/2 inch punch. Cut one into a crescent for a mouth. To make the eyes cut two blue 1 inch circles and glue them onto the two white circles. Draw on black pupils with your marker pen.

Puffer Fish Craft step 9.

9 – Glue the eyes and mouth onto the front of your puffer fish.

Puffer Fish Craft s finished lying on a table top.

This paper fan puffer fish craft is so darn cute! Why not make a whole school of them in lots of different colours?

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