Happy Newspaper Plate Octopus Craft

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This calendar week nosotros are hosting Ocean Week on our spider web log in addition to Facebook page! We'd been sharing a few Ocean themed activities on Facebook along amongst i Toddler Approved Ocean arts and crafts on our spider web log each day.

One of our favorite books is Octopus Opposites yesteryear Stella Blackstone. It is a darling mass that talks well-nigh opposites patch likewise displaying beautiful coloring photos of lots of dissimilar animals... including several that hold upwardly inwards the ocean. This mass is neat for working on novel vocabulary amongst your child! All 3 of mine dearest it!

Our favorite graphic symbol is the octopus, thence my boy in addition to I made our ain elementary octopus arts and crafts using a newspaper plate.

Materials Needed: 

streamers newspaper plate (cut iv strips inwards one-half to brand 8 sparse strips)markers, paints, or dot-markerswhite glue2 white circle pieces of newspaper for eyes (or ii giant googly eyes)

Directions:

This arts and crafts was super slow to make. First nosotros only painted the newspaper plate. We used the dorsum side of the plate because it didn't direct maintain whatsoever cinema on it in addition to the pigment stuck to it better.

Next nosotros allow the pigment dry out in addition to and thence nosotros gum on some large eyes.  I drew a large dark circle inwards the centre of the ii white pieces of paper. Then I seat ii gum dots onto the newspaper plate in addition to and thence my boy had fun sticking these to the glue.

Once the gum was dry, nosotros turned the plate over in addition to added gum to the bottom of the plate. Then nosotros stuck the 8 sparse pieces of streamers onto the plate. This was definitely a messy viscid sticky part! I would scream for to the gum point on the plate in addition to and thence he would accept the halt in addition to stick it to that spot... in addition to thence nosotros would repeat until all 8 pieces were stuck inwards place.

After the gum on the streamers dried, my boy loved making his octopus "swim" to a greater extent than or less the house.

Modifications: 

My boy is currently xx months, thence if you lot desire to effort this amongst younger kids you lot may desire to exercise some of the gluing yourself in addition to only direct maintain them pigment the newspaper plate. You could likewise direct maintain them finger pigment the newspaper if you lot don't desire to role markers or point markers.

If you lot desire to proceed this creation alive, definitely display it upwardly high since these streamer legs are super fun to rip off! Or only allow your kid "love" their octopus until it is destroyed. :)

This activeness is likewise super slow to adjust for older kids. You could arrive to a greater extent than exceptional focused yesteryear giving them other materials in addition to letting them add together suckers to the Octopus's legs or to a greater extent than texture to the Octopus's body. 

Do you lot direct maintain whatsoever other favorite sea themed crafts or activities or books you lot could portion amongst us? Head on over to our Ocean Week landing page to run across the other activities we've shared this week.

Also, don't forget to caput over in addition to enter to win a PaddlePak backpack for your piddling explorer!! There are ix dissimilar paddlepaks to direct from in addition to all of them acquire along perfectly amongst our sea calendar week theme!!

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