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Ms. Jacobus from Newark, NJ is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Japanese Fish Prints Without Real Fish!

Help me give my students the fish, ink, and paper to learn the Japanese art of Gyotaku, the art of making fish prints without using a real fish!

  • $344 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

My pre-K and Kindergarten children love art and are always enthusiastic when doing new projects. Nothing daunts them. I like to do projects that relate to science and different cultures.

My children's experiences with fish are in tuna fish sandwiches or gold fish in a bowl.

We make warm and cool colored tropical fish from paper plates and draw the Octopus's Garden using the wax resist method. I want to teach print making using Gyotaku life-like rubber fish. Students will learn to use a brayer to apply paint to the fish form and then press rice paper over the mold to complete the fish print.

"Gyotaku is a traditional form of Japanese art that began over 100 years ago as a way for fishermen to keep a record of the fish they caught. They would apply sumi ink to one side of a freshly caught fish, then cover the fish with rice paper and rub to create an exact image of the fish."

Ms. Jacobus Early Childhood School - Central Grades PreK-2

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Newark, NJ View local requests

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

225 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Gyotaku Fish Printing Set - Set of 9, Fish • Blick Art Materials $88.18 1 $88.18
Speedball Block Printing Ink Starter Set • Blick Art Materials $20.91 4 $83.64
Yasutomo Rice Paper - 9-1/2 x 13, Loose Sheets, 500 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $48.74 1 $48.74
Speedball Soft Rubber Brayer - 1 1/2 • Blick Art Materials $9.48 4 $37.92

Materials cost

$258.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$292.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.59

Total project goal

$343.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $343.95

1 Donor

-$343.95

Donations toward project cost

-$292.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.59

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 $0.00

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