We used sections of an egg carton for the crabs. Painted them red and after they dried, we added pipe cleaners for the legs and drew little faces on them.
Next we cut up an empty cereal box and painted the inner part of the squares blue
Once the paint was starting to dry, we brushed on a mixture of glue and water (keeps the glue from being to thick and helps it spread easier) and sprinkled sand on them. They were supposed to only put sand on one half, but they sort of covered most of the squares(it did wipe off easily though) , and it was not until AFTER we started that i realized I didn't have any regular sand- so- we used some of the cloud dough mix we made a fw months ago. What a mess- but they had fun! OK, Mew had fun, Jocie didn't enjoy touching the sand stuff much and couldn't wait to get that part finished!
Finally we glues the crabs to the backgrounds. We had fun making them, but really had trouble finding somewhere to put them afterwards as the sand/dough stuff was just not sticking as well as I wanted it to. Next time we use real sand hahaha
Mew's finished scene
Jocie's finished scene
2 comments:
That's a good idea! We have hermit crabs....I'm trying to think of ways to do this and create hermit crab look...maybe we would just use an actual shell....hmmmmm......
That would probably work great (using a real shell) if you wanted to glue the shell down you would probably need a glue gun:)
They also make little plastic shells that look a lot like hermit crab shells- we got some at the pet store in the fish tank section - I think they are made of glass or some sort of plastic? but they are in brighter colors
those would work too though
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