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Craft Foam Fish

By Damjana Jakos • Last updated on Oct 1, 2024 • This post may contain affiliate links.

Looking for a fun, simple craft to keep your little ones entertained? Let’s make colorful foam fish for fun in the bathtub! These cute fish are super easy to create, and they’re perfect for water play with toddlers.

Not only will your kids love sticking them to the bathtub walls and floating them in the water, but it's also a great way to encourage creativity and keep bath time exciting. Plus, it’s a perfect rainy day activity you can enjoy together!

Check out this easy idea, it works brilliantly in our home:

Craft foam fish next to a stailnless steel bowl, ready for kids play activities

Do you have a toddler who just wants to keep playing all day and knows that bath time means nap time is coming soon? Getting them into the tub can be a challenge, right? Well, a DIY craft foam fish set might be just the trick to turn bath time into playtime fun!

How To Make Craft Foam Fish Set For Kids Water Play

It's SIMPLE:

  • Cut out fish-like pieces from craft foam
  • throw them in the bathtub filled with water and
  • invite your toddler to join them.

Expect a lot of splashing and giggling!

a toddler hand wet with water, grabbing a homemade craft foam fish while in a bathtub

The internet offers tons of additional ideas of what to do with craft foam, even here you might like this craft foam threading activity using pipe cleaners and ties. Have fun!

Top Tip

If your car is always totally full when going on vacation (like ours), craft foam will be a perfect item to bring along instead of those bulky kid's toys. Or this DIY fidget toy you can make yourself, too.

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Craft foam fish next to a stailnless steel bowl, ready for kids play activities

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Comments

  1. sanja says

    July 24, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    Haha, nam so tiste najbolj všeč 🙂

    Reply
  2. Damjana says

    July 24, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Sanja, dobra ideja, kar na plan z njimi. Mi jih trenutno lovimo tudi po morju (tiste iz moos gume, da smo si na jasnem. Pravo ujamem kvečjemu, če je že na krožniku 😉

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  3. sanja says

    July 24, 2014 at 11:54 am

    Ooo, hvala, naše moram izbrskati 🙂 Mi smo jih lani po bazenčku lovili najprej z mrežico, potem pa sem na vsako dala sponko za papir, sinu pa "ribiško" palico z magnetkom...

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