FISH ON FIREEEE.

We made this fish for a school project on oceans. Originally, it was supposed to be a costume made to be worn around my waist. We ended up leaving the fish on the table with a bowl of candy in the middle for people to take.

This fish took us over 3 days to make (obviously not 3 days straight) because of all our failures.

We cut out the shape of a fish (...sort of) out of a tri-fold display board and cut a hole in the middle about the size of my mid-section. (this fish was made for me to wear, it was too much work making just the one fish, so we didn't end up making 2 more for the other people in the group) After cutting out the shape we blew up balloons and taped them to the cardboard and covered that in newspaper. From here we thought that we could paper mache it, but this was very hard. Thinking back, I can't remember why we thought this next idea was a good one, but we thought it would be helpful if we hung the thing from the ceiling. Stephanie's kitchen ceiling. We paper macheed about half of it and then we had to call it a night. The next day after school we got together and started working on it when almost the whole thing of paper mache fell OFF THE CEILING. We figured at this point we needed a new approach.

We took the fish off of the ceiling and covered it in newspaper. (lots and lots of newspaper... ugh) After this we got it so it looked pretty good, but we then realized that we had no way to cover the newspaper print. We tried to spray paint it (bright orange... 'it can be nemo!') but we didn't have enough spray paint and you could still see the print and pictures through it. We couldn't paint it with other paints because of it's size (as if we wanted to spend MORE money on this project. ugh.) so once again we called it a night and went home.

The day after that at school we found some tissue paper and got an idea- we could cover the fish in tissue paper scales! So after school (and after setting up our station for history fair- which was THE NEXT DAY. we didn't wait until the last minute though, we just put a LOT OF TIME into this project.) we went back to stephanie's house and cut out a bunch of tissue paper in the shapes of scales and taped them on one by one.

So in the end this fish consisted of:
-Cardboard Trifold
-Balloons
-Flower
-Newspaper
-Tape
-Glue
-Spray paint
-Ants
-Tissue paper
-Construction Paper

Category:

Education

Tags:

• fish
• history
• fair
• jaime
• stephanie
• sarah
• work
• fire
• burn
• die

[littlestpetshopfilms]

you spazz it took you that long and you burn it. spazz