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Go Fish: Fishing Crafts, Games, and Treats

By Compiled by Allison Berry
July 14, 2015
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No place to cast your rod nearby? No worries! With simple crafts and adorable sweets, your kids can still catch the spirit.
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Go Fish

Fishing game
Credit: Julia Vandenoever

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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Egg Carton Sea Creatures

Egg Carton Sea Creatures
Credit: Lucy Schaeffer

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

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Swimming Sock Fish Craft

Fish Party Decoration
Credit: Peter Ardito

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

  • Click here to learn how to make them.

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Sequined Fish

Fish Magnet
Credit: Peter Ardito

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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Fishy Dessert

Fish Sorbet Balls
Credit: Peter Ardito

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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Foam Fish Windsock

Foam Fish Windsock
Credit: Jay Wilde

Make an easy outdoor craft to display all summer long.

  • Click here to learn how to make it.

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Compact Fish

Sequined CD Fish
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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

Little Fish Cookies

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

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Island Cake

Luau-theme Birthday Cake
Credit: Heather Weston

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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Fish Jewelry

Fish Party Favor
Credit: Peter Ardito

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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Magnetic Go-Fish!

Magnetic Fishing Game
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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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Fish Costume

Fish Halloween costume
Credit: Jenny Risher

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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Fish Prints

Fish prints
Credit: Julia Vandenoever

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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