Total time: 60 minutes.
Instructions
- Cover the inside of the shoe box with blue card, leaving the top and bottom (inside) clear
- Stick yellow card onto the bottom to make the sand
- Now take your green tissue paper and shred into different thicknesses
- Stick this onto the top of the inside of the box so it hangs down like seaweed
- Now take your cardboard tube and carefully cut so you have a piece approx. 2 inches tall
- Cut your pipe cleaners so they are long enough to stick out of the tube, place inside the tube
- Cover one of the corners of the shoe box in PVA glue and stick the tube and pipe cleaners on top
- Now hide the cardboard tube with green tissue paper to make the magical Fruit Peelers plant!
- Next, make a small googly octopus and egg box Todd the Turtle using the instructions found on the Crafty Corner page
- Stick these onto the sand next to the magical Fruit Peelers plant
- To make your school of swimming fish, take the coloured foam/card and cut out lots of small fish
- Stick googly eyes onto both sides of the fish’s body
- Cut out a thick strip of foam and put to the side
- Very carefully take the needle and thread and pass through the very top of the fish (sellotaping the thread to secure if tying a knot is too fiddly!)
- Take the other end of the thread and pass through the strip of foam
- Repeat until all of the fish are secured onto the strip of foam (try hanging them at different heights!)
- Take your strip of foam and cover with PVA glue
- Stick to the top in the inside of the shoe box and hold until stuck
- Why not create different kinds of sea creature and add them to your diorama!
Activity difficulty - hard
You will need:
- A shoe box
- PVA glue
- Sellotape
- Blue card
- Yellow card
- Cardboard tube
- Sparkly pipe cleaners
- Needle and thread
- Coloured foam or card
- Googly eyes
- Green tissue paper
- Googly octopus (see crafty corner)
- Eggbox Todd the Turtle (see crafty corner)