Watercolor Cut-Out Sea Animals Craft For Rosh HaShana!

Watercolor cut-out sea animals are just too much fun! Did you know that the fish is actually a symbol for Rosh HaShana? (We want to be like the head of the fish, not the tail!) With that in mind, and the fact that we say the prayer of tashlich preferably next to a body of water with fish, why not make some sea life themed crafts this year? Keep everyone on their toes since they’ll be expecting apples and pomegranates! (Though I’d make some of those too!) Here is what I wrote when I shared this as a Passover craft:

Need a perfect craft idea to keep the kids, in a range of ages, busy right about now? This is it my friends, make sea creature cut outs to use as Passover decorations, and the more the better! I’ll be using these for table decor on Shevii Shel Pesach, the 7th night of Passover when we celebrate the crossing of the Red Sea, but they are certainly also appropriate all holiday long. Ah yes, and if you are looking for ocean themed birthday party decor, or sea themed birthday party decor, well this is perfect as well! These cute sea animal cut outs are perfect for garlands, mobiles, cake toppers, napkin rings, gift tags, and for a fun Passover centerpiece, that I’ll be sharing shortly. Okay, ready to get started, time is of the essence!

You’ll Need:

• watercolor paper or thick craft paper
• watercolor paints and brushes, or even sponge brushes for little kids
• sea creature stencils or make your own by tracing around simple shapes in photos and cutting them out from cereal box cardboard or recycled plastic container tops

How To:

• Paint watercolor stripes on paper, paint on both sides, with drying time in between each side, if you’d like to make a mobile or cake toppers.
• Fill the page with sea creatures, using the space as efficiently as possible, by tracing around your shapes, or within a store bought stencil
• Cut out the shapes and use for crafting projects!

 

More Ideas Using This Same Technique:

If you’ve stumbled across this post, but aren’t really needing any sea creatures, not to worry, this crafting technique can be used in so many fun ways, with the ideas that come to mind as I write this listed below:

• Duplicate this idea using cookie cutters or stencils representing a different shape.

• Instead of stencils, trace around a round drinking glass to make a garland of striped circles, which could be lovely, hung vertically or horizontally, or hang the circles on vertical strands from a stick to make a wall hanging inspired by Capiz shell decor.

• Speaking of capiz shells, hang vertical strings of striped circles from an embroidery hoop to make a crafty lampshade or party decor mobile. Consider adding a horizontal row of a different shape, at the top bottom or center. Or hang vertical rows of any shape you like, just try not to make it too busy looking, and possibly hang one row of circles, then a row of starfish, then another row of circles, etc.

• Cut the pages of striped watercolor paper into tiny squares and use them to make mosaics!

• Cut the watercolor paper into the width and height to wrap around a can to make a nice pencil holder.

• Make paper chains from the watercolor striped paper, and maybe plan ahead and paint both sides of the paper.

• Cut strips of the watercolor paper and make napkin rings, maybe using double thickness. One could then glue a watercolor cutout shape onto the napkin ring for an extra special touch.

• Use the watercolor paper to make rectangular or circular placemats to place under a clear plastic tablecloth.

• Paint stripes in fall colors and then cut out fall leaves, to hang or place on the table.

• Cut leaf shapes from watercolor paper, fold in half to form a crease down the center, and glue leaves to a real branch, in the way they would grow. Make a few branches, of different heights, and voila a great colorful and artsy centerpiece is born!

• Cut rectangles of any size, fold in half and use as gift cards, gift tags, etc.

Okay, honestly I could go on and on, but that should be enough for now, enjoy.