Octopus Kids Craft

We are huge fans of ocean and sea life animals at our house. We love crafting them and learning about them! Our collaborative preschool theme this week is all about the ocean and I’m excited to share the Octopus Kid Craft my preschooler made with you. Not only is it simple to make, but it incorporates fine motor skills and using scissors so it’s a perfect preschool activity.

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Supplies needed:

colored, white and black cardstock paper
party streamer cut into 8 sections
2-inch circle punch (optional)
1-inch circle punch (optional)
Cereal
pencil
scissors
Clear School Glue

Tutorial:

1. Cut out shapes

Draw the shape of an Octopus head onto your colored cardstock paper with your pencil and let your preschooler cut it out. You can see the shape I drew out for my daughter below. We have made an Octopus craft using a circle for a head, but I wanted ours to be more realistic this time, so I tried to draw the shape more reminiscent of an actual Octopus.

2. Make eyes

Have your preschooler use your circle punches to punch out two 2-inch white circles and two 1-inch black circles. Glue them onto the Octopus.

3. Glue on legs

Turn your Octopus over and add a line of glue across the bottom of your Octopus. Add four of your streamer pieces along the glue. Make another layer of glue and add your other four streamer pieces.

4. Add cereals using glue

Put dots of glue along the back of the Octopus legs and place cereal onto the glue. The cereals resemble the Octopus suckers. Let the glue dry completely and then you can pick up your Octopus and twirl him around and watch all of legs wiggle around.