Go Fish: Fishing Crafts, Games, and Treats

By Compiled by Allison Berry
July 14, 2015
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

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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Make it: Cardboard Fish Toy

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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

Credit: Peter Ardito

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

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Sequined Fish

Credit: Peter Ardito

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

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Fishy Dessert

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

Credit: Jay Wilde

Make an easy outdoor craft to display all summer long.

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Compact Fish

Credit: Scott Little

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

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Little Fish Cookies

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

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Island 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.

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Fish Cake

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Fish Jewelry

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!

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Magnetic Go-Fish!

Credit: Scott Little

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

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Fish Costume

Credit: Jenny Risher

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

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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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