Cupcake Liner Octopus Kids Craft

We read a cute story about an Octopus this week called Tickly Octopus and then decided to create our own Octopus out of a Cupcake Liner. Adding the Cheerios to the legs turned out to be great fine motor practice for my daughter’s little fingers. I love that you can customize him how you’d like, with any color of cupcake liner. Making these in a preschool would be so fun!

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Supplies you will need:

purple cupcake liner(or whichever color you choose)
blue sheet of cardstock paper
purple cardstock paper(or whichever color you choose)
pink cardstock paper
2 large googly eyes
Cheerios cerealor any “O” cereal
glue
scissors
white crayon

Directions:

1. Start by cutting out 8 Octopus tentacles from your purple cardstock paper. I made them about the width of a Cheerio.

2. Glue your purple cupcake liner and tentacles onto your blue cardstock paper. Cut a mouth out of your pink cardstock paper and then glue it onto your Octopus along with your googly eyes.