Rainbow Fish Collage: Ms. Anderson & Ms. DesLauriers

For this lesson, we had the student's create a collage in the form of a fish.  We started off by introducing them to the book "The Rainbow Fish."  This was the motiviation for their activity.  The students then drew a fish of their choice.  We showed them the process for creating a collage look by tearing up paper and overlapping it.  We let the children use whatever colors they wanted, and we had them explain what the colors were, warm, cool, or both.  The students glued this down and then cut the fish out.  They were able to use tissue paper, feathers, beads, sequins, and tinfoil to decorate their fish. 

An extension activity for this project would be to talk about fish.  Children could research different fish and explain the parts of a fish on a diagram.

This is the bulletin board Ms. Anderson and myself created.  We wanted the bulletin board to look like the ocean with different tropical fish.  We used tissue paper to create the look of ocean, also giving it a 3D sense.