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Cute Little Crab
As we continue our ocean theme we learned about crabs today and made a crab. It turned out really cute.
Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, tissue paper, glue, wiggly eyes, 2 paper bowls and something to brush the glue on with.
Hailey did a great job tearing up the red tissue paper.
In one bowl mix a little bit of water in with some glue and brush it onto the bottom and sides of the other bowl.
Cover the bottom and sides of the bowl with red tissue paper. You can also do this with paint instead of tissue paper if you’d like to.
While Hailey was busy covering her bowl with tissue paper I cut out a mouth and some legs. There are 8 regular legs and 2 legs with claws. I also cut out some seaweed from the green tissue paper which I forgot to take a picture of.
Glue on the seaweed.
Add the legs.
Turn the bowl covered in tissue paper right side up and put glue all over the rim.
Add eyes and a mouth and you have your finished crab. (Hailey used so much glue that when I took this picture 5 hours after we made the crab- the glue was still wet!)
You have so many fun projects here! I’d love to link to some of them if you didn’t mind.
This is so cute! We are going to have to try this one.
Oh my word! That is an adorable little crab! I love it!
That is a great crab. Hailey did a great job.
Thanks for sharing with Friday Showcase!!!
I love using tissue paper instead of paint. WE paint a lot. Thanks for sharing!
We have never used tissue paper to paint – my kids would love that! Thanks for sharing!
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That crab is adorable!
this is so cute, thanks for sharing 🙂
This is a wonderful project! I have linked to here from my own blog as we are doing seaside crafting this week. Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
We are studying the s a great craft thank you sooooo much for sharing!
Oh my goodness! This is the cutest project! This is my first few months as a Pre-K teacher (a class of 19 kids between 4-5 years old) and am doing an Ocean theme this summer. I will definitely be using this idea. I was just wondering, did you use a template to cut out the claws, or were you able to just free hand draw and cut them out yourself??