Fish Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters

Fish and the ocean are a great summer theme for kids. And Fish watercolor painting with cookie cutters is a great craft for kids for the summer.

You can use different fish cookie cutters to make a great ocean picture, and kids will love doing it.

Plus, watercolor cookie cutter painting is a craft kid of different ages can do together.

Fish Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters is an easy ocean fish painting you can do with kids. You can use one cookie cutter or several fish cookie cutters to make the painting - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Fish Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the ocean painting and cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.

Fish Watercolor Painting

Fish watercolor painting is painting inside fish cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.

One of my favorite parts about cookie cutter painting is that they work on fine motor and creative without really knowing it. I am always needing to find a way for my oldest to get more fine motor activities in without her knowing it. She does not like me taking pictures of her for the blog much anymore but she will do the projects. The cookie cutter painting is one of her favorites to do and I don’t have to even bribe her to do them.

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Ocean Book to read with this Fish Painting

A great book to read about ocean fish facts is An Anthology of Aquatic Life. It has so many facts about the ocean and all the different types of ocean fish that kids can learn about.

What we used to make the Fish Watercolor Painting

watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
watercolors
fish cookie cutter set
large paint brush

We use this fun fish cookie cutter set. You can use all the fish or just a few of the fish.

How we made the Fish Watercolor Painting

You shall see all the steps below we use to make the fish watercolor painting.

Holding the Cookie Cutter

You want to hold the on top of the cookie cutter or on the sides. But the big thing is about holding it is place well enough you can paint inside.

Paint inside the Fish Cookie Cutter

After you have the fish cookie cutter in place on the watercolor paper, you put the paint on the brush and then paint inside the cookie cutter.

We use a bigger brush that what comes in the watercolor sets. This makes is easier to spread the watercolor paint around inside the cookie cutter.

Pick up the Fish Cookie Cutter off the Paper

You then pick up the fish cookie cutter from the paper. You can see the outline of the fish on the paper.

If you have older kids doing this project you can have them use the watercolor brush to fix any spots of the fish they might not have got all painted.

Paint More Fish

After you have your first fish done you can them move on to painting more fish on the watercolor paper.

You might want to pick different parts of the paper for each new fish. This allows the fish below to dry.

And Just Keep Adding Fish

You can keep adding fish to the page! Plus you can use so many fun colors for the fish.

And because this is a fun project for kids. Let them decide how many fish they want to paint. It can be a few or lots that color the whole page.

Additional Steps for Older Kids

After the watercolor fish painting is done. You can let the fish watercolor painting dry. Once it is dry you can use a sharpie pen to trace around the fish and add other features like eyes, outline of fins and more.

Final look at our Fish Watercolor Painting

More Ocean Paintings for Kids

Water Color Fish is a fun way to make a under water scene. This is a simple cookie cutter painting you can do with kids.

Fish Stamp the Sea is a fun activity to make an ocean scene for your windows. Another simple craft that you can do with kids for an ocean painting theme.

Watercolor Ocean Animals Painting is a fun painting project with cookie cutters. It is a super fun way to make an ocean painting.

Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-tip & Watercolors is a super fun way to make a shark painting activity for kids.

Check out all the fun Ocean & Beaches Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.