It's summer, I am a bit more laid back with our homeschooling. Trying to find more fun things to do with the kids but yet educational. We have been doing quite a bit of crafts.
I read Eric Carle's A House For A Hermit Crab to my 3 and 4 year old and then I decided to have them do a craft to accompany it.
Materials:
Paper Plate
Colorful Paper Cut into Squares
Staples
Construction Paper
Markers/Crayons
Glue
Googly eyes or Circle Stickers
Cut a paper plate into 4 pieces, like this 1st picture.
Stack them on top of each other leaving a bit of a space, staple them once in place.
Then glue the colorful paper to the paper plate
Glue on a piece of construction paper, make the hermit crab legs and face which I just did free hand and had my kids glue down the while hermit crab on the paper. The eyes are just round circle stickers.
This craft was inspired when my 7 year old was learning about crustaceans in his homeschooling and he did a whelk craft which I will be posting soon with our Apologia lesson.
Linking this homeschool post up to Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers, and delicate Construction, 1 +1 +1 = 1, and Homeschool Creations this week.
Such a cute idea :)!
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat craft! I think I will try this with my 2, 5, and 7 year olds. We love Eric Carle!
ReplyDeletehow fun! I'll have to do this with the kiddos!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a fun, easy, quick to make craft.Will try this with the kids. Pinning this
ReplyDeleteThat is so adorable. Great job teaching and having fun while doing it! I think this will be fin for my kids too. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI adore Eric Carle books and I adore that craft. Too cute!
ReplyDeleteLove this craft idea! So cute. My son is a little young for it but my niece would definitely have a blast. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteHow cute is this! I need to try this. Looks like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteThat is so easy and fun. We may do it! Thanks for a great post
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of stART? It's Story + Art. I can't remember which blog does it, but if you google it you'll get a ton of cool ideas that go with books!
ReplyDeleteI love Eric Carle books! Such a cute craft you did with it!
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love the layers, it looks great!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like so much fun!! I'm going to pin it to my son's board (yes, he has his own Pinterest board) when I get home tonight!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. We love Eric Carle books and I know my son would love this craft!
ReplyDeleteLove the craft!! I have always been a fan of Eric's books!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute! Definitely doing with this the bambino. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWe need to do this for Eric Carle's birthday on Monday!
ReplyDeleteOur hermit crab just died so my kids would love making this!
ReplyDeleteHow creative! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThis is adorable!
ReplyDeleteVery fun. I am also heading to that original Pinterest link. My daughter loves stuff like this!
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to do this with my 3 year old!
ReplyDeleteI love your site when it comes to ideas for the little guys-- I try to go through them to see if we have everything so at least Willow and Jesse has something new to make at least once a week--The little crab is going to be made tomorrow-- so hopefully they will have a great time with it too
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