Go Fish: Fishing Crafts, Games, and Treats

No place to cast your rod nearby? No worries! With simple crafts and adorable sweets, your kids can still catch the spirit.

Compiled by Allison Berry from Parents Magazine

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Julia Vandenoever
Go Fish

If a trip to the lake isn't an option, create your own backyard fun with this simple fishing craft! Have kids take turns casting magnetic poles into a hula-hoop pond to catch foam fish by their paper-clip mouths.
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Lucy Schaeffer
Egg Carton Sea Creatures

Try this easy craft to create 5 ocean creatures for everyone to play with!
- Click here to see the step-by-step instructions.
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Peter Ardito
Swimming Sock Fish Craft

These swimming sock fish are not only adorable, but easy to make!
- Click here to learn how to make them.
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Peter Ardito
Sequined Fish

Use a fish cookie cutter, air-dry clay, and sequins to make these sparkly cut-outs.
- Click here to reel in the details!
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Peter Ardito
Fishy Dessert

Make sweet sorbet fish by adding fruity fins and cereal faces. Bring the sea to them with silicone blue cupcake liners.
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Jay Wilde
Foam Fish Windsock

Make an easy outdoor craft to display all summer long.
- Click here to learn how to make it.
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Scott Little
Compact Fish

Use an old CD and sequins to add light to a rainy day inside!
- Click here to learn the step-by-step details for this craft.
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Little Fish Cookies

This easy recipe lets you make your very own brightly colored school of fish!
- Get the recipe for Little Fish Cookies.
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Heather Weston
Island Cake

Give kids a taste of the tropics with a summertime cake. Press Swedish Fish into blue icing to give it an underwater feel.
- Click here to learn the recipe for this summer treat.
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Peter Ardito
Fish Jewelry

All you need for these precious baubles are fish beads and string. Set out the supplies and let your little designers get to work with a "finning" design!
- Click here to buy fish beads from party902.com.
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Scott Little
Magnetic Go-Fish!

Give your kids the lake experience right from your own living room!
- Click here to find out how to make this easy fishing game at home.
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Jenny Risher
Fish Costume

What better way to bring the beach home than to have your little one crawling around in this precious costume?
- Click here to see details on how to make this for your little crawl-fish!
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How to Fish with Your Kids for the First Time
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Julia Vandenoever

Fish Prints

Looking for some new summer inspired wall art? Try your hand at these Japanese gyotaku-inspired inspired fish prints. Have your kids create their own fish art by pressing white paper onto paint-covered rubber fish.

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Go Fish

Egg Carton Sea Creatures

Swimming Sock Fish Craft

Sequined Fish

Fishy Dessert

Foam Fish Windsock

Compact Fish

Little Fish Cookies

Island Cake

Fish Jewelry

Magnetic Go-Fish!

Fish Costume

Fish Prints

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