Flying Fish Stabile
Explore ocean life. Then create a captivating fish display with exciting Crayola® Color Explosion™ paper and Model Magic.
1. Investigate stabiles and mobiles, both invented by artist Alexander Calder. How are the two types of displays alike and different? What principles of physics do they use? To further your science studies, find fish with different body and fin shapes. What geometric patterns do their scales form?
2. Using Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils and the information you found about marine life, sketch small fish on half of a white side of Crayola Color Explosion paper. Fold the paper so the black sides are together. Cut out along your outlines.
3. Turn each set of matching fish with the black side up. Decorate them with the Color Explosion color-reveal markers. Duplicate patterns you found in nature.
4. With Crayola School Glue, attach a chenille stem between each back-to-back pair of fish. Clip them together until the glue dries.
5. Use Crayola Model Magic to create a stabile base for your fish. Mix colors. Form coral, shells, and other authentic sea plants to add to your base. Stick the chenille stems with the fish into the Model Magic. Your unique science stabile is ready to display!
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Color Explosion™ Black—Wash hands well with soap and water after use.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
- Create a mobile with the same or similar science themes.
- For a complete science fair project, paint underwater background. Place it behind your stabile. Add labels and descriptions of the fish depicted, their habitats, and other information.
- Assessment: Check initial research before fish are created. Verify that designs are based on real fish. Observe that directions are followed for the stabile’s construction.
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