Make your own Aquarium Background

Now that we've painted the walls - the aquarium needed a background to hide all of the wires - we looked a several online - but none of them fit the ancient ruins 'theme' that Scout had going in the aquarium...

...so we discussed what he wanted - same colour as the walls - thought about just painting some poster board with the room colour - thought about just black (the rocks are black) - or black with some specks of neon green to match the rocks - or pale blue - it was hard to decide...

...but we finally rolled out some newsprint...

...painted that the same green as the room...

...let it dry...

...then sketched an ancient ruins scene with a sharpie - in case it gets a little splash of water it won't run...

...it's sorta hard to see throught the bubble curtain...

...let's turn that off - Scout is pretty pleased with the new background - it's hard to tell about the fish...