Go Fish: Fishing Crafts, Games, and Treats

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.

Try this easy craft to create 5 ocean creatures for everyone to play with!

These swimming sock fish are not only adorable, but easy to make!

Use a fish cookie cutter, air-dry clay, and sequins to make these sparkly cut-outs.

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

Make an easy outdoor craft to display all summer long.

Use an old CD and sequins to add light to a rainy day inside!

This easy recipe lets you make your very own brightly colored school of fish!

Give kids a taste of the tropics with a summertime cake. Press Swedish Fish into blue icing to give it an underwater feel.

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!

Give your kids the lake experience right from your own living room!

What better way to bring the beach home than to have your little one crawling around in this precious costume?

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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