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Home » Craft » Origami Fish Window Fish Tank

Origami Fish Window Fish Tank

October 1, 2019 by Crystal McClean

Origami Window Fish Tank at Castle View Academy homeschool

If you’re looking for a fun project for the kids to do during a school break, try making a window fish tank filled with origami fish!  Origami Fish and Other Sea Creatures is a good kit for all skill levels, and comes with both a book of instructions, as well as online video demonstrations.

Origami Window Fish Tank at Castle View Academy

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Tuttle Publishing kindly sent us an Origami Fish kit for us to use and review, and it’s been a big hit with us.  And our neighbours have had the pleasure of seeing our fun window display, as well!

The Origami Fish Kit Contains

Origami fish kit contents

  • 60 folding sheets in fantastic colour and patterns
  • a 64-page instruction book for 20 fish and sea creature models
  • a link to free online video tutorials

folding fish contents

Origami Fish Projects

We had so much fun with this kit – and I think maybe I had more fun than the kids!  There’s a lot you can do with this kit – just use your imagination!  If you have an empty fish tank, hang these fish in it to create a diorama.  We didn’t have a tank….so I used our front window!

Fish tank with origami

I simply put some silver card we had around the fish, drew on some little waves with a window marker, and hung the origami fish using thread that I attached to the fish at one end, and a suction cup on the other.  We had some fish window clings Mom and Dad sent over some time back, so we used those as well, to give a more dimensional look to our tank.  I think it looks pretty cool – what do you think?

Now we can sit outside and enjoy the view of the Irish hills, as well as an interesting fish tank.

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origami Fish Silhoutettes

Kallista and I both made Fish Silhoutettes that can be used as they are, or turned into a card by gluing or using double-sided tape to affix it to the front of a card blank and brighten someone else’s day with a cute greeting.  I have a friend who’s just taken up fishing and hasn’t had much luck so far this year – so perhaps a fun ‘catch’ in the mailbox will give him a laugh.

Origami fish bones

I tried out making some Fish Bones, which were a little trickier, but fun as they are different than the rest of the projects.  I hung these lower down in our ‘window tank.’

Folding a simple origami fish

Tristan made a fearsome shark to keep the food chain in check, as well as a simple fish for some colour.

Origami angel fish

Back in elementary school, my best friend, Leasa named one of her angel fish after me, so of course I had to make and angel fish for our tank, too!

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Origami Fish are great for:

How fun would this kit be for a school, group, daycare, etc.?!  There are many, many things you could do!  You could even have every student make a fish or three and use them for ‘fishing‘ games with prizes attached.

 

If you’re interested in purchasing Origami Fish, it’s available through:

  • Tuttle Publishing
  • Amazon
  • Great bookstores near you

If you’d like to know more or would like to follow Tuttle Publishing, you can connect  with them through their website, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (and you can see our other Tuttle reviews here).

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Filed Under: Craft, Homeschool Reviews Tagged With: AF-AM, Elementary, Japan, Middle School, Origami, Paper, Primary, Sealife, Tuttle Publishing

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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