Making a Crab from a Scallop Shell

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1 crab

Supplies:

• 1 scallop shell
• red acrylic paint
• paintbrush
• 3 long red pipe cleaners
• hot glue gun with glue
• 2 small confetti rounds or googly eyes

Steps:

1. Paint the shell red and allow to fully dry.

 
2. Cut 2 of the pipe cleaners into quarters, and 1 of them in half.

 
3. To make its walking legs, hot glue the shorter pieces of pipe cleaner on the back side of the shell. Bend the ends a bit.

 
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4. To make the crab claws, bend the end of a longer pipe cleaner into an M shape, then move the first section under the first diagonal.

 
5. Now move the long stem under the second diagonal. It will look like the letter Y. Repeat with the other pipe cleaner.

 
6. Glue the claws to the top of the back of the shell.

 
7. Glue on the little eyes.

 
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