Dive under the sea for a cute ocean craft that is sure to delight young kids. This cute lobster craft uses your child’s hand and foot for a precious keepsake of those all-too-fleeting preschool years. This handprint crafts also incorporates footprint art to make a memorable ocean animals craft that will make littles giggle with delight. Use this under the sea crafts for preschool, toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Lobster Craft
Are you looking for a letter l crafts for toddlers, preschoolers, or kindergartners to go along with yor letter of the week program? Or perhaps you are studying ocean animals and are looking for an ocean animals craft to add to your lesson. Either way, this adorable lobster craft is sure to be a hit! Use this ocean craft for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students.
Ocean animals craft
All you need to make this cute lobstercraft are a few simple materials you probably already have on hand:
- white cardstock (we used overside 11 x 18 paper)
- washable red paint
- paintbrush
- googly eyes
- red or black marker
- baby wipe (optional, but handy for clean-up)
Handprint crafts
We did this ocean craft for kids to go along with our O is for Ocean week. The kids had so much fun & I have a precious keepsake from these treasured early years! Once you’ve gathered your supplies, head to a spot without carpet and have children roll up sleeves and pants. Now paint your child’s foot bottom with the red paint. This was a fun activity for the kids; great sensory activity. They loved the feeling of the cool paint & the paint bristles tickled their feet.
Letter L crafts for toddlers
Help your child carefully press their foot on the white paper to make a footprint. You will want to guide them so the impression doesn’t smear as they lift their foot carefully. If everything looks good, go ahead and wipe foot clean with a wipe to avoid any messes.
Under the sea crafts for preschool
Now it’s time to paint both your child’s hands red. Once the pams and fingers are full (but not dripping) with paint, it’s time to make handprints above the foot print. You want the hands to be about 4-6″ above the foot print with the handprint marks to the right and left of the footprint.
Footprint art
Allow your projec to dry before giving your lobster art project the finishing touches.
Ocean craft for preschoolers
With a paintbrush or markers draw a line to make the lobster arm from the handprints to the red foot Now use paint or marker to add 5 legs coing off the footprint on both sides as the lobster feet.
Under the sea crafts for toddler
Affix googly to the top, main part of the foot print. Just under the lobster eyes, draw a smile if you like.
Ocean craft for toddlers
You are done! You know have an adorable piece of art for your fridge, keepsake book, or for Grandma!
Sea Animals Craft
This sea animal craft is a quick and easy ocean art project that will delight the kids making it and the parent or grandparent who gets to keep the craft too!
Ocean Activities for Kids
Looking for more ocean activities for kids? You will love these clever, free resources and ideas:
- Ocean Color by Number Printable
- 50 Amazing Ocean Crafts for Kids
- Build an Ocean Scene with this fun Fractions Activity
- Simple Under the Sea Coloring Pages
- Pearl Color Matching Ganes
- Try this Watercolor and Crayon Ocean Craft
- Breeding Guppies – an outrageously FUN Fish Science Experiments
- Read and Dab Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheets pdf
- Ocean Animal Counting and Trace Do a Dot Printables
- Alphabet Go Fish Game
- Color Matching Octopus Activity for kids
- Cute Hands & Feet Lobster Craft
- Shell Letter Matching Ocean Activities for Preschoolers
 
Ocean Theme
- Sharks for Kids Reader
- Sea Turtles for Kids Reader
- Free Printable Whale Writing Prompts
- All About Fish Printable Reader
- Ocean Counting Clip Cards
- Cupcake Liner Octopus Craft
- O is for Ocean Weekly Theme for Prek / K
- Tons of ideas for a weeks worth of fun learning with an Ocean Theme
- Cute One Fish Two Fish Pdf
- Ocean Printable Multiplication Game
- Fun to play with Ocean Slime
- FREE Ocean Coloring Pages
- Cut and Paste Fish Craft
- Printable Crab Contraction Ocean Activity for Kids
- Kid favorite Goldfish Printable Counting Activity
- Goldfish Subtraction Games for Kindergarten
 
Beach Theme
- Sand Volcano – EASY Summer Science Experiment for Kids
- Disolving Seashell Activities – a Summer Science Experiment
- Super Simple Sand Slime
- Crack the Code Worksheets with ocean themed pages
- Under the Sea Lego Challenge Printables
- Sandcastle Subtraction Craft
- 50+ pages of Ocean Worksheets for practicing math and litearcy with pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders
- Fun Sandcastle Letter Matching – Summer Activities for Kindergarten
- Hands-on Sandcastle Colour Matching Activities
- Sandcastle Letter tracing Summer Activity for Preschoolers
- Count and Trace Numbers 1-10 Sandcastle Summer Activities for Preschoolers
- Sandcastle Number Playdough Mats to count and trace
- Summer STEAM – Sandcastle engineering with tp rolls
- Ice Cream Sandcastle Summer Snack Idea
- Sand Bucket & Shovel Letter Matching – Summer Activities for Kindergarten
- Beach Summer Experiment with a Density Tower
- Free Beach Worksheets for Preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1
 
 
Don’t miss the other animal studies we’ve created!
- Discover All About Whales Worksheets pdf
- All About Pinnipeds – seals, sea lions, walrus life cycle, and more
- Learn About Herps – sea turtle worksheets, sea snakes, aquatic frogs, toads, salamander, and more!
- All About Fish, Sharks, and Rays
- Get to know Mollusks, Cephalopods, & Crustaceans for Kids (crabs, lobsters, octopus, bivalves, clams)
- All About Echinoderms and Cnidarians (Jellyfish, Sea Stars, Sand Dollars, Coral)
- Huge Ocean Animals for Kids Unit (250+ pages)
