Nursery Shiny Fish Collage: Outline Mats

Shiny Fish Collage: collage outline mat. A big fish outline for children to fill with shiny paper, foil, sequins or tissue. A second mat shows the same fish to paint or colour. Children explore how different materials feel and look. It is a lovely way to talk about scales, fins and tails. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 2 fish collage mats. Ideas for using it: • Shiny scales: Fill the fish with shiny paper scales. • Feel it: Is it smooth? Crinkly? Shiny? • Pattern fish: Make a pattern of colours on the fish. • Paint it: Paint the fish with your favourite colours. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make. • Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Explore colour and colour mixing. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.