Ocean Themed Crab Art for toddlers by lukeosaurusandme.co.uk
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Crabby Art

Hello!

We love a good Ocean themed craft in the Lukeosaurus house hold! We just cannot get enough of them; we’re currently working on a nice A3 Ocean Scape for the living room wall with lots of different materials but for now…

Ocean Themed Crab Art for toddlers by lukeosaurusandme.co.uk

We made this fab A3 sized crab! Isn’t he fun? I saw something similar to this on Pinterest a while back and thought Luke and I just had to make it.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

A3 Piece of Paper/Card (we use an A3 Sketch Pad)

Red Paint

Half a Paper Plate

2 Strips of Red Paper

Black Marker

Glue

What To Do:

This craft is really simple and can easily be achieved by children of any age, so long as they are able to use a paint brush/paint without eating it!

First, paint half of the paper plate with red paint. Luke used a variety of different brushes to do this as he’s really enjoying trying out all the different sized and textured brushes at the moment.

While you still have the red paint out, paint your little one’s hands and let them make two hand prints on the A3 paper – these are the crabs claws.

Once the paper plate is dry, glue it to the bottom of the paper and using black marker, draw two little eyes on. You can even use googly eyes here if you like.

Fold two strips of red paper, or paper that has been painted red, and glue one end to the hand print and the other just under the paper plater (if the edges are raised slightly); these are the crabs arms.

And that’s it, you’re all done!

Luke’s really chuffed with his little crab and it was a lovely way to spend the afternoon. He really enjoys painting so the activity lasted at least an hour, probably just over, before he got bored. Painting always makes a good pre-bath time activity as well!

Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.

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