{"id":263,"date":"2007-08-02T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makeplaydough.com\/blog\/263\/shoebox-aquarium\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T23:22:47","slug":"shoebox-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/263\/shoebox-aquarium","title":{"rendered":"Shoebox Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-snk-default wp-image-18978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Shoebox-Aquarium-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Shoebox Aquarium\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Shoebox-Aquarium-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Shoebox-Aquarium-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Shoebox-Aquarium-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Shoebox-Aquarium.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shoebox aquarium <\/strong>( you can also make puppet theaters and other story telling designs out of this same kind of box, just choose different types of stickers)<\/p>\n<p><em>What You&#8217;ll Need:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoebox<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper<\/li>\n<li>Scissors<\/li>\n<li>Fish stickers<\/li>\n<li>Bamboo skewers<\/li>\n<li>Card stock<\/li>\n<li>Scotch tape<\/li>\n<li>Paint<\/li>\n<li>Craft knife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Instructions for the Project:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Paint the shoebox. Wait to dry and set it on its side<\/li>\n<li>Decorate the back of the shoebox (inside back) with two layers of wavy blue paper. Also decorate the foreground with a layer of wavy blue paper<\/li>\n<li>Add small rocks and plants to the bottom of the shoebox<\/li>\n<li>Place a bamboo skewer down on a piece of heavy paper and press a fish sticker onto the skewer and the paper. Repeat this process for all of your fish stickers<\/li>\n<li>Cut out all of your fish stickers. Cut small rectangles of card stock<\/li>\n<li>Take two of the rectangles of card stock and place them together so that they form an &#8220;X&#8221; shape and punch a hole through the middle of the &#8220;X&#8221; so that the skewer can fit through it. Repeat this process for all of your skewers.<\/li>\n<li>Cut two slits down the length of the top of the shoebox, make sure that they are wide enough for the skewers to go through<\/li>\n<li>Push the skewer end of the skewered fish up through the slits<\/li>\n<li>Push the card &#8220;X&#8221;s down over the end of the skewers popping up through the box and tape them into place<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoebox aquarium ( you can also make puppet theaters and other story telling designs out of this same kind of box, just choose different types of stickers) What You&#8217;ll Need: Shoebox Construction paper Scissors Fish stickers Bamboo skewers Card stock &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/263\/shoebox-aquarium\">[Continue]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[972,986,985],"tags":[1158,1159,1160,1162,1163],"class_list":{"0":"post-263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paint-recipes-and-crafts","8":"category-paper-crafts","9":"category-toy-projects","10":"tag-crafts-for-kids-using-shoeboxes","11":"tag-fun-crafts-for-kids","12":"tag-kids-crafts","13":"tag-shoe-box-crafts","14":"tag-shoebox-crafts","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shoebox Aquarium &#187; 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