Mini Aquarium

Your children can make their own mini underwater community. This is what they need:

• clean, clear plastic food container with attached lid
• thread
• construction paper
• scissors
• tape
• crayons or markers

1. Find a clear plastic food container that has the lid attached such as those found at fresh salad bars in your local grocery store. This will be the aquarium.
2. To make the inhabitants of the aquarium, have your child draw, color, and cut out pictures of coral, fish, and other sea creatures. Make them small enough to fit inside the plastic container.
3. Cut out each sea creature and use tape to attach a length of thread for hanging. To suspend each sea creature, turn the container on its side and tape the other end of the thread to the inside opening of the container. Tape pictures of coral along the top and bottom.
4. With the container turned on its side, the sea creatures will dangle down as if swimming.