Ransack your classroom’s art supplies, and get ready to start crafting! While felt or foam is preferable, you can use any cut-and-paste textile you can get your hands on. Remember, the more decorations you have, the more interesting the result will be!

Start off by gluing three popsicle sticks into a triangle using craft glue and leaving that to dry.

While the triangle dries, use the downtime to cut the fish’s tail, fins, and lips out of some color-contrasting felt.

Using the dried triangle as a template, cut around its edges on a piece of felt to create the fish’s scales. Paste this to the wooden ‘skeleton’ and leave that to dry.

Once that’s dried, simply use the lips, tail, and fins to flesh out the fish’s anatomy.

From here, it’s up to you to decorate the fish in any way you please! Use sequins for scales, googly eyes for a little life, or even some pom-poms for a fluffier look.

You're done! Have your students craft an entire wall of little fish (or should I say… a school), and they’ll have the time of their lives.