Paper Plate Fish

In this kindergarten lesson, we created patterned fish from paper plates. I started with a paper plate that had a 5x5 grid drawn on it. On a scratch sheet of paper, I made a pattern using at least three different shapes, and then I transferred my pattern to the grid on the fish. I colored my pattern and the rest of the fish using markers. I cut out a triangle for the mouth, and glued the triangle on the body of the fish for a fin. Then I glued an eye on my fish and added another triangle for a tail fin. Last, I attached some fishing line to the mouth to look like I caught it.


For an extension activity, students could write about their fish. They could give the fish a name, write where they caught it, and who they went fishing with in a few short sentences, or they could dictate a story about the fish to an adult who could write it down for them.