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Hermit Crab Craft

This hermit crab craft uses a paper plate, sequins and a handprint!

Hermit Crab Craft - a paper plate and handprint craft for kids

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This craft was made in three stages: the body of the crab, the shell, and then assembling it all together. I used:

  • Red washable paint
  • Paintbrush
  • White card
  • White paper plate
  • Glue
  • Sequins (we used some of the Spangle Mix that was sent to us by the fab people at craftprojectideas.com)
  • Scissors
  • Red pipe cleaner
  • Wire cutters
  • Googly eyes
  • Tape
Paint  your child’s hand with the red paint and make a handprint onto the white card.
Hermit Crab Craft from Craftulate

Turn the paper plate upside down and provide your child with sequins and glue to that they can decorate it. I drew a spiral onto the plate so that it looked more like a shell, and F decided to follow the line with the glue! He did very well and I was rather impressed!

Hermit Crab Craft - a paper plate and handprint craft for kids

He then stuck the sequins onto the glue. Obviously  you could glue on anything you have to hand – buttons, tissue paper, beads, whatever!

Hermit Crab Craft - a paper plate and handprint craft for kids

When everything had dried, I shaped the paper plate, cut out the handprint, and taped them together. I used the wire cutters to cut the pipe cleaner into two small pieces and glued googly eyes to each end. I taped these onto the thumb part of the handprint.

Hermit Crab Craft - a paper plate and handprint craft for kids

This would be a great craft to go along with the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle.

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