Easy Coffee Filter Jellyfish Craft (simple for kids)
The Easy Coffee Filter Jellyfish Craft is simple for kids and made with things you have on hand. Make an aquarium you don’t have to clean!!
Servings: 1 Coffee Filter Jellyfish
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Spray bottle
Ingredients
- 2 Coffee filters
- 1 Form for the jellyfish out of recycled, plastic water bottle or putting plastic cup, small Styrofoam or paper bowl
- 4 Ribbons and streamers out of various materials each about 18 inches long
- 2 Googly eyes
- Glue
- 1 Pony bead
- 12-18" String
- 1 Spray bottle
Instructions
- Select two coffee filters. Lay them down in a jelly roll pan, on cookie sheets, or on a surface that can get wet like an old tablecloth.
- With water-based markers color a design on the coffee filters. This design will get smeared by the water, so it does not need to be real detailed.
- Use a squirt bottle on the misting setting and spray the coffee filters lightly until they are just wet.Allow the coffee filters to dry completely.
- Cut a plastic bottle or other use another object as the jellyfish form. See the supply list.
- Use one of the decorated coffee filters to glue over your plastic bottle or pudding cup form. This is the jellyfish's body.
- Cut the second coffee filter in a spiral from the outside edge to the center of the circle in a long continuous strip that’s about a half inch wide. When finished cut this in half so you have two pieces.
- Gather your ribbons or other materials that you have found for jellyfish tentacles and find the halfway point for all of them. Also use the two pieces of the spiral cut coffee filter. Gather those in your hand and tie a string (about 1 foot long) around them to hold them together at that halfway point.
- In the center of the bottom of your pudding cup poke a small hole. This will be the top of the jellyfish. Draw the two ends of your strings on the tentacles up through that hole. Tie a pony bead onto the strings so that the string does not fall back through the hole. Tie the ends of the string together so it makes a loop to hang up the jellyfish.
- Glue on googly eyes to make a face on your jellyfish. That’s all there is to it! Isn’t it cute?
Video
Notes
Use watercolor markers only and mist the coffee filters lightly (don't pour on water).