Rainbow Fish Tissue Paper

This project we learned about warm and cool colors. We learned that the warm colors are red, orange and yellow. The cool colors being blue, green, and purple. The project was based on the book Rainbow Fish and that was read to us while we made our tissue paper fish. The fish were already cut out and to start we had to make a fishy face to receive the silver sequence which represented the "unity" that we learned about as well. We were to tear tissue paper and use a glue/water solution to make them stick to the paper. The tissue paper bled so you got different colors throughout the fish. We made a cool colored fish and a warm colored fish. When we were done we added our eye and our unity piece.
An extension to this project could be done when learning about aquariums or the ocean in a biology classroom setting. In an older classroom they could cut their own "sea creature" out and make it unique and different from everyone else's. It is a great way to get kids to understand the difference between warm and cool colors.