Equipment

• Paint (various colours)
• Paper plates
• Celery
• Printed templates

Preparation

Print off some templates with outlines for the children to use (when considering your template, the shape of the celery makes great fish scale shapes). You will also need to cut up the celery into lengths approx. 8-10cm long. Put out paints on plates (paper plates will save time when cleaning up) for the children to dip their celery sticks into.

Instructions

Simply the children place one end of the celery into the paint and then gently stamp it onto their piece of paper.

Encourage your young people to use different pieces of celery for each colour, i.e. keep celery sticks with the same colour once used.

Shared by Joe Harrisson, Northamptonshire Battalion