Master class “Aquarium from a shoe box. Paper fish aquarium

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Plastic bottles left over from carbonated drinks are good to use for. If you plan to decorate adjoining territory, then you need to collect enough a large number of this waste material. And if the craft is intended to participate in a competition or decorate a room, then two or three bottles will be enough.

We came up with the idea of ​​creating aquarium from plastic bottles . Of course, you can’t pour water into a container with a volume of 1.5 - 2 liters and you can’t plant live fish. However, as a souvenir or toy, such an aquarium definitely deserves attention. We present to your attention a master class with a photo.

Craft "Aquarium" from plastic bottles

So, for crafts in without fail will need:

• plastic bottles of several colors,
• glue for plastic, wood or glass,
• scissors.

Additionally useful:

• pliers,
• matches, candles or gas burner fire,
• any other decorative elements that can be used to decorate the aquarium.

bottle first white color cut into two parts. We need to adjust the height of the aquarium, and therefore we cut off a few centimeters from these two parts. Reducing the size of the bottle will fill the bottom plastic cup vegetation and pebbles.

Next, grind the brown and blue bottles into squares, triangles or trapeziums with side sizes within 1 cm. Quantity geometric shapes at the discretion of the master. We imitate pebbles and glass with which we will cover the bottom of the aquarium. The plastic crushed in this way must be melted over the fire. Need pliers. Each piece will have to be captured with a tool and brought to the flame. As a result, the plastic gets the appearance of glass with curved edges.

At the same time, we cut out vegetation for the aquarium from the green bottle. It's impossible to recommend anything here. We act without templates and preparation. Finished plants we process matches, candles or burners with the help of fire, that is, we traditionally melt the edges of the blanks.

Now, with the help of glue, we fix the greens at the bottom of the glass. Pour brown pebbles on top, followed by blue pebbles. Glue part of the blue plastic on the walls of the aquarium. So we will designate the water level in the tank. Additionally, to decorate the craft, we used a real shell.

Decorate the neck of the aquarium lid with a blue flower. It is cut out of plastic and decorated with a fine mesh made with a red-hot sewing needle. The edges of the flower are melted.

Our aquarium is ready to meet its little residents.


If desired, the fish can also be cut from. However, our dad loves to go fishing in his spare time, and therefore he has silicone fish.

We tied three fish to a fishing line. The line was passed through the neck of the bottle, brought out and screwed on with a lid.

We demonstrate the aquarium from all sides. It turned out to be a very unusual piece. Silicone fish waving their tails merrily at the slightest movement of the aquarium. Our craft will definitely take first place in children's works.

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Probably, every parent has come across such a request from their baby as: “I want an elephant!”. The elephant is a frequently replaced variable. It could be a rocket, or just a doll, like the girl next door. In general, you know, the kid can request ANYTHING, WHEN you want and AS you like.

In our case, the daughter began to request an “elephant” from the age of two. Sometimes politely, sometimes with tears. The painted things did not satisfy her, and it was extremely rare to distract her with another topic. One of the most memorable episodes was the backpack. My daughter saw this object in a children's book, and since it was in the evening, the mood was not positive, as a result, a thunderstorm broke out at home. Constantly solving children's whims by means of money, in our opinion, is far from the wrong approach. Therefore, we found another way out - the backpack was glued from cardboard. By the way, he regularly served his daughter for three months, and to this day is in working condition.

But today we will talk about another "elephant" - about aquarium.
After another trip to shopping center, the fish from the pet store sunk into the soul of my daughter. I am not against pets, but on the condition that the child himself takes care of them. Our daughter, at her 2 and a half years old, is not ready for such responsibility, so we returned to our faithful helpers - scissors and cardboard.

For our craft we needed:

Children will be able to make such an aquarium on their own school age. But I assure you that the kids will also be happy to take part in joint family creativity, they can paint the boxes, decorate the fish, lay out the pebbles and shells. It's all about teamwork ;)

The box can be decorated with paints. We just glued it with colored paper using double-sided tape.

While the husband was engaged in algae,

daughter decorated the bottom of the aquarium with pebbles,

I made fish.

We made runners with which you can move the fish from cardboard. But you can replace them with paper clips, or stick around the threads with smooth tape. In general, the main thing here is that the thread slides along the incision.

My daughter was very happy with the new inhabitants of our house. For the first two days, the aquarium moved around the apartment with her. Then he was found appropriate place and we feed the fish every day. :)

And also you will find there beautiful cartoon on the marine theme based on the children's book of the famous American writer and artist Leo Lionni(Leo Lionni) swimmy.

Bright and nimble waterfowl attract all children, so they will definitely like the voluminous application "Fish in the Aquarium". But the fish themselves in this work are quite complex. Therefore, if the children are small, it is better to make simple multi-colored fish in flat view. You also do not need to make a very small aquarium, since small fish in this technique are quite problematic to make, especially for children.

Work materials

• White cardboard;
• colored paper blue or blue color, as well as green, red, pink, yellow;
• Glue stick, scissors, simple pencil, black felt-tip pen.

Stages of creating a three-dimensional application "Fish in an aquarium"

How to make an aquarium out of paper?

Draw a round aquarium on a white piece of cardboard and cut it out. Do not make it very small, because small bulky fish are very difficult to make.

Put the aquarium to the blue paper, circle it. And then draw a parallel inner line next to it, as the water should follow the outline of the aquarium, but be a little smaller. Draw a wavy line at the top. Cut out the water.

Fill the aquarium with it, that is, glue the blue paper to the white cardboard blank.

What is an aquarium without algae? Cut out simple wavy stems from green paper. Also cut out circles from white paper. different size that will be air bubbles.

Glue the details, now the aquarium is completely ready to receive its inhabitants. At this stage, kids can cut out very simple fish, but older children can be advised to make voluminous fish.

How to make a voluminous fish out of paper?

You will need a small square of paper. Its size depends on the size of the aquarium. Put your square in the created aquarium, does it look normal, does it not occupy the entire area of ​​​​the aquarium, will two more fish fit there, or at least one more? If the answer is yes, we continue to make a fish.

Fold the square in half, corner to corner, to make a triangle.

Open the double paper.

Where there is a sharper angle, make cuts, not reaching the edge by about a third. You should get 6 thin strips.

Arm yourself with a glue stick and start folding the strips one on top of the other, securing them with glue. First, connect two strips, and glue at the intersection, then two more, well, the last two should converge on top. In the process, try not to lose sight of the tail, with the right cross direction, it should be a fluffy bun, and not just layering.

At the last stage of creating a voluminous fish, draw one eye on it with a felt-tip pen, add strokes to the tail.

The green fish was an example, and for the aquarium I made three bright fish - pink, yellow and red.

It's time to put the fish in the aquarium by gluing them in the tail area. This is how a cute application of a fish in an aquarium turned out.

If desired, a strip of white cardboard can be glued on the back so that the aquarium is, as it should be, in an upright position.

Interesting voluminous crafts colored paper and cardboard

Materials and tools

■ Colored, corrugated, packaging cardboard

■ Color and White paper

■ Round box

■ White threads

■ Scissors

■ PVA glue, glue stick

■ Thin wooden stick

Making an aquarium

1. From orange corrugated cardboard stencil cut the body of a goldfish - 2 pcs. (Fig. 1).

2. Cut out a circle head from yellow cardboard - 2 pcs.

3. From yellow paper, cut out the fins according to the stencil (Fig. 2). For a fluffy tail, take yellow stripe 10 cm wide and make cuts along the entire length. Cut the fins too.

4. Glue the fins, tail and thin white thread between the body halves of the fish.

5. Glue small pieces of packing cardboard to the body of the fish, in the place where the head will be. Glue the head of the fish on them on both sides. Glue eyes on both sides.

6. Cut out round lips from red paper and glue to the head.

7. Using a thin stick, curl all the stripes of the tail and fins.

8. Make 2 more fish, red and yellow.

9. From the blue corrugated cardboard, cut out the bodies of 2 fish (scalar) using a stencil - 2 pieces, and from the red one - 2 tails (Fig. 3, 4).

10. Glue the halves of the fish and the tail together, glue a long white thread inside. Glue on the eyes.

11. Take a round or square box and cover it inside with white paper. This is an aquarium.

12. Cut out strips from blue paper and glue them inside the box. Got water. Make sand out of yellow paper.

13. Stencil out algae from several shades of green paper and stick them into the aquarium (Fig. 5).

14. Make holes in the top of the box and thread the threads that are glued into the fish through them. It turns out - the fish swim in the water.