September 2009

This fun and easy to make fish­ing game pro­vided us with a lot of fun today. This activ­ity is great for hand/eye coor­di­na­tion.

Mate­ri­als needed: paper plate, foil, paper clips, dolly pegs or any type of stick (or even an old marker), blue card paper (i used poster board paper), string, and small magnet.

First print out the fish images on card stock (or nor­mal paper and lam­i­nate). Print two copies so that there are more fish. I’ve included a fish print­able here

Fold your blue paper in half then in half again. Cut along the folds/creases.

Wrap foil around plate and tape blue paper pieces together till it fits right.
** You can use glue now if you like to secure the foiled paper plate to the blue paper (optional)

Cut out fish pieces and write their points on the back. I used 1 and 2 points and just chose them randomly.

Add paper clips to the fish.

I used a dolly peg as the fish­ing stick and tied a piece of string around it as well as around a small mag­net.
(For younger kids make the string shorter than for an older child since it is eas­ier to con­trol with a shorter string.)

You can use a stick from outside(twig), old marker, or even an old mag­netic fish­ing game stick that you have lying around instead.

At the end of the game have the kids tally the points at the back.

This activ­ity was inspired by The Ulti­mate Craft book

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