Make a Jellyfish

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Make a jellyfish with this easy step-by-step video tutorial and then re-read the pages in The Pout-Pout Fish book and pretend you’re Mr. Jelly!

You’ll need:

  • Paper plate

  • Colored tissue paper (or left over wrapping paper or color in some white paper)

  • Small pieces of white paper (for the eyes)

  • Small pieces of black paper (for the eyes — or color in some white paper)

  • Colored string(s) — at least one color but as many as you’d like

  • Hole punch (or a screw driver and your adult)

  • Scissors (and your adult)

  • Glue (and your adult)

  • Pencil

  • Pen or thin marker (we used back)

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Cut your tissue paper (or other paper) into thin strips to begin, then cut into squares about 1.5” x 1.5”.

  2. Place glue from the edge of the plate and continue to spread glue nearly 3/4 of the way down.

  3. Place the tissue paper atop the newly spread glue.

  4. Use a think black marker or pen to draw a wavy line along the area where the tissue paper ends.

  5. Cut along the dotted line.

  6. On the plate, along the bottom cut edge, leave about 1.5” on each side and draw small circle with your pen to cut out. You’ll want to leave about half an inch between the circles and have them all about the same height. You’ll likely have about 6 circles.

  7. Use a hole punch or a screw driver to poke through the paper and make holes.

  8. Prepare your string(s). How long is up to you but you’ll want to be generous with length — approximately 20” long since you’ll need to fold the string over to form a loop for each hole.

  9. With the strong in a loop, twist the end you’re about to insert into the hole; then insert the loop starting from behind the plate and through to the front of the plate; the long tails should be handing down (You’ll spot this at around the 2:50 mark on the video).

  10. Holding the loop that just went through the plate, insert the bottom loose ends of the strings through the loop, then pull to tighten.

  11. Repeat steps 9 and 10, until each hole has string secured to it.

  12. To make the eyes, cut two circles from white paper (just over an inch each in diameter) and cut two smaller circles from black paper. Glue the black circles onto the white circles.

  13. Now glue your finishes “eyes” onto the paper plate.

  14. Use your pen to draw a smile on your new jellyfish!

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