This handprint hermit crab kid craft is a fun extention to the classic book, A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle.

“A House for Hermit Crab,” is a much beloved book by the skilled author Eric Carle. It follows the story of a hermit crab who needs to find a, “House,” to live in. This craft draws inspiration from the book, allowing children to make their own, “House,’ for a hermit crab–a paper shell.

When I was a child, I got to take home the class hermit crab over a long vacation. There is something incredibly fascinating about a creature that needs to borrow shell to protect itself and to ex…

Try this easy handprint craft with your students. This is a great extension activity for one of our favorite Eric Carle books, "A House for Hermit Crab."

This handprint hermit crab craft is a great extension of the Eric Carle book, A House for Hermit Crab and makes a great classroom display!

Today we read Eric Carle's Hermit Crab. After discussing the book and talking about the letter C and sequencing, we made ourselves into a hermit crab. We took special care to decorate our shell just like the hermit crab in the story.

Under the Sea Kindergarten Hermit Crabs For more information please follow me on Instagram @youngschoolartwithmr.g Like me on Facebook https://m.facebook.com/youngschoolart/ We traced our hands to create the body of the hermit crab and traced a plate to make the shell. We created a lot of texture by painting with paper tubes and q-tips. We added details such as shells and seaweed.

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