This Crab thumbprint kids craft is a great kid art activity lesson. You can use this Crab thumbprint craft to create a whole series of Ocean creatures.
Use the images below to guide you on how to make your thumbprint ocean creature. For younger children, you can use a pencil to pre-draw the lines in and allow them to trace your pencil markings to finish off their thumbprint project.
Have you ever wondered why kids do fingerpainting or in this case Thumb painting? Firstly it helps with their hand/eye coordination and it uses one of the five senses making it the perfect activity for sensory play. Messy play like finger painting is important to every child’s development and it’s a developmental milestone that is starting to be overlooked as more kids turn to technology-based play. physically It strengthens the hand, thumb and fingers which aids with fine motor skills.
Crab Instructions:
- Make a horizontal thumbprint. This is your crab’s body.
- Using a red Sharpie, make four lines – two on each side of the body.
- Add six legs.
- On top of the crab’s body, draw two lines.
- At the end of the two lines you just drew, add circles. These will be the crab’s eyes.
- Draw the dots for the eyeballs.
- Using your pointer finger, make two red fingerprints, one on each side, on the two lines you drew in step 2.
- Add a smile for your crab.
