How to Make Fish Out of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
- 1). Recycle a bottle of dish soap after your use the last of its contents. For best results, select a brightly colored, curvy bottle in blue, red or yellow. Wash the bottle out thoroughly using water and the small end of a bottle brush. Remove the label from the bottle and use a citrus-based cleaner and a clean cloth to remove any remaining adhesive. Wash the outside of the bottle with a sponge in soapy water.
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Cut out a large triangular section from the bottom of the recycled bottle with a craft blade. Set aside the cut-out section. The triangular opening in the bottle will become the fish's mouth. - 3
Cut off the top of the bottle just beyond the slight curve at the top with a pair of scissors. The remaining curve will serve as the fish's tail. - 4
Use a craft blade to cut one small slit in the bottom part of the fish's body on one side. Create another, identical slit in the opposite side. - 5
Cut off a triangular plastic piece from each side of the segment from the bottom of the bottle. These will be the fish's fins. Cut two tiny notches at the top of the longest point of each triangle. - 6
Insert the notched ends of the fish's fins into the slots in each side. Hot glue a large wiggle eye on both sides of the fish about two inches above each fin. Display the fish by balancing it on its fins and tail.
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