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, purple and pink sheet of cardstock paper
- 2 large googly eyes
- Any type of “O” cereal
- school glue
- glue stick
- scissors
- white pencil or crayon
Step-by-step tutorial:
1. Make octopus legs
Start by cutting out 8 Octopus tentacles from your purple cardstock paper. I made them about the width of a Cheerio.
2. Make octopus body
Glue your purple cupcake liner and tentacles onto your blue cardstock paper.
3. Time for mouth & eyes
Cut a mouth out of your pink cardstock paper and then glue it onto your Octopus along with your googly eyes.
3. Glue cereal to the Octupus
Add spots of glue on your Octopus tentacles and add your cereal.
4. Draw waves
Finish your Octopus by using your white crayon to add water waves around your paper. He turned out to be a cute little guy!
