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**__Materials and Spplies I Used__**

**1.** About 1/8 cups of dark brown sand from my grandma **2.** About 1/3 cups of light brown sand from my grandma **3.** About 2/3 cups of coco brown sand from my mom’s craft closet **4.** About 1/8 cups of black sand from my grandma **5.** A 3 oz. multi-shaded brown rock that is broken in half and I found in our rock garden **6.** A 3 oz. white, brown and yellow rock with a dip in it that I found in our rock garden **7.** A 2 oz. rock that is white, gray and brown with layers on it that I found in our rock garden **8.** A 2 oz. reddish and brownish lumpy rock found in the rock bed at my home **9.** A 2 oz. dimpled, reddish-brown rock found in the rock garden at my home **10.** 6 oz. of white, nontoxic, air-dry molding clay from Crayola that requires no baking **11.** 23 small twigs off of a bush outside our home that are about 1-3 in. long **12.** A regular fish bowl with clear glass sides and a flat bottom with curved sides and a rim. **13.** Light brown twine that has been braided to make longer ropes <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">**14.** 4 small weights to pull down the net from my brother’s tackle box <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**15****.** 4 ultra small weights to add more weight to the net from my brother’s tackle box <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**16****.** A small amount of Styrofoam to help the raft of twigs float <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**17.** A small length of fishing line for the guy’s twig fishing pole <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**18.** A tuft of hair from a doll that my mom has <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**19.** Tan, pink, gray, brown, black, white, red, and blue paint <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**20.** A red, gold, silver, brown, blue, black, pink, and gray seven inch paint brush <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**21.** A black, red, gold, silver, brown, blue, and pink 7 ½ inch paint brush <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**2****2.** A black and gray hot glue gun with a long, black cord <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**2****3.** One stick of cloudy, solid glue soon to be melted <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**24.** My very own large hands <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**25.** A gray, stained metal tray <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**26.** Shiny, slightly wrinkled, silver tinfoil <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**27.** The heat from our freshly warmed, black, gray, electrical oven that is not on**28.** A little bit of super glue that stuck to my hand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**29.** A small, blue, digital camera to take pictures with and my mom to hold it  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**30.** A silver bowl that I made in second or third grade to see if the clay would hold up under water when painted <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**31.** My mind to figure out what I wanted it to look like <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**32.** Long sharp, orange handled scissors <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**33.** Black and yellow hand held clippers with a curved end <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**34.** Some Minwax Helmsman Spar Urethane Clear Satin <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**35.** A rusty chisel <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**36.** A rusty hammer <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**37.**A white rock a little bigger than a soft ball <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**38.** 1/16th cup of dark green sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**39.** 9/16th cup of light green sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**40.** a little less than 1/4th cup of dark orange sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**41.** 1/3rd cup of light orange sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**42.** 1/8th cup of red sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**43.** 1/3rd cup of dark pink sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**44.** a few inches of fishing line

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt;">__How Did I Do It?__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">If you don’t already have some, go to the store, Hobby Lobby is good, to get some white modeling clay <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Next, find a fish bowl or a clear plastic container to hold the diorama <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">You will also need sand, rocks, and some shells if you want them <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Depending on what color you want the fish and other things to be, you will need paint <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Sticks to make the raft are accentual unless you decide on another thing to make the raft out of  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">And to finish off the major supplies, you will also need to get hot glue and twine <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Take out a chunk of the white modeling clay <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">With this white clay, model as many blob fish that you want, preferably more than one <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">You can also mold a man and a tackle box to signal the deep sea fishing going on  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">You can add hair to the man by cutting off a little hair from a doll and pressing it into the head or any way you see fit <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">To make the raft you will need the sticks that you got earlier <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Cut them all about the same length and glue them together, two layers is good <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Once done with that, get two more sticks and glue them the opposite way on the bottom for balance <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Then get the twine and cut it long enough to wrap around the raft and tie it  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Cut off the excess twine and glue it into place <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">To make the cave (optional) get a rock big enough to chisel into a cave without breaking it  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Using a chisel and hammer, hollow out the middle to form the cave <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Next, let your clay creations dry for a few days before you paint them <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">In the meantime, to make the raft you will need a medium fishing weight or as many weights until it sinks <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">This is where the twine comes in the most <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">To create the net, you will need at least 10-20 equally sized pieces of twine <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Lay these out in a grid pattern and glue them down when you think they are about the right amount of space apart <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">After the net has dried and the weights have been glued to the corner, get four long pieces of twine, long enough to reach up to the rim of the container without being lifted off the bottom of it  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Now that the clay has dried, get out your paint and paintbrushes <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Paint the entire blob fish one color and let it dry <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">While the blob fish are drying, get the manPaint a shirt, pants, and a pair of shoes on him <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Then, paint his skin and after the skin dries, paint on a face <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">The final thing to paint, besides the eyes of the blob fish, is the tackle box if you made one <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">The top half is normally a different color than the bottom half <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">One all the paint dries; get some clear satin Helmsman so the creations won’t dissolve underwater <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Spray on multiple coats of the clear satin and be sure to cover the entire creation Mix all the sand that you have to make some multicolored sandFill the bottom of the bowl with the sand <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Put the rocks, shells, and cave in the bottom of the bowl <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Fill up the bowl with water and place the blob fish in the bottom <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Do not keep the clay, even when it has been sprayed, underwater long, it will dissolve in a little while

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">__The life of a Blob Fish__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">You are sinking to the bottom of the cold, dark ocean, right off the coast of Australia and Tasmania. The light of the top starts to fade, but you can still breathe. Suddenly, you drift to a stop in what looks like blank, motionless terrain at the bottom of the ocean, literally inches off the sea floor. But you are not alone. There are still animals lurking here, Animals that you might not have known to exist. Here comes one now. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">A fish floats out from behind a coral encrusted rock - an ugly fish. Blob drifting, inches off the sea floor, it comes forward, out of the watery shadows, slowly. This is the rare and endangered blob fish that lives off the coast of Australia and Tasmania, 800 meters below sea level. Like a jellyfish, the blob fish doesn’t have any bones, but unlike one, it is not poisonous, so it is perfectly safe-unless you cross its path with your finger. This weird fish eats anything that comes into range and can fit into its mouth. One of the many reasons this animal has no bones – it’s lazy! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">One of the wackiest creatures that can survive so far down, the blob fish has no gas bladder or any floatation device. To be able to stay under sea level so far, the only thing that barely helps to keep the blob fish not drag the rocky bottom is that it is slightly less dense than the water it lives in. Other animals that live down there with it on the sea floor could be the reason it is going extinct. Lobsters, crabs, and other crustaceans on the floor that are in high demand are being caught and the blob fish is being dragged in with them, forcing them onto the endangered list. Some of the main killers of one of the saddest looking animals on earth are the Australian and new-Zealand fleets. These fleets that fish in the blob fish territory are unknowingly (or knowingly but don’t care) depleting the numbers of a very cool fish. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">If the blob fish were meant to be near the surface of the water, they would be given a gas bladder or develop one. There would also be less blob fish if they were meant to be higher in elevation because of the predators there. That is why catching blob fish is not right. They are not supposed to be in the higher reaches of the sea. They are built to stay under water in high pressures up to 80 times more than sea level. There are actually some places where the blob fish live that is protected under law, but not to save the blob fish. The main reason is to save the coral reefs that the blob fish lives among. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">Slowly, you float back up to the surface and back into your world. With this information, you can help to save not only the blob fish, but other fish, even if they are not endangered. If we want the blob fish to stay around for generations to come, we have to help in the fight. This deep sea fish may be the butt of a lot of jokes and the source of laughter but if this continues the way it has, soon this blobby fish will not be around to be made fun of. Each species is one of a kind, but each time we lose one it is a major blow and the food chain is upset, leading to the next extinction.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt;">**__Where Did I Get That Information?__** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">[][|http://] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">[|www.google.com/www.wild-facts.com] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">Sierra Magazine <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">Wend Magazine