Octopuses are strange and wonderful creatures and there are lots of cute octopus crafts you can make with your kids.If you love octopuses, then you’ll absolutely love these easy and fun octopus crafts for kids. We’ve included fun octopus craft activities for a range of different ages.Octopus crafts for kids are great fun and they are an easy way to build your kids’ fine motor skills. These fun octopus crafts for kids are perfect for anyone who loves the ocean. These crafty activities will give you and your kids hours of fun and quality time together. You can use your amazing octopus crafts as fun decorations around the house or your kids’ bedrooms. Or you could hold an ocean animal-themed day, dedicated to the ocean. No matter what you use your completed crafts for, you will love these activities and the end results!Crafty Handprint OctopusYour kids will love these crafty fun octopus activities. Get your hands messy and create some fun octopus handprints!What You Will Need:Child-friendly, easy washable paintGoogly eyesCardboardGuide:Get your hands all messy with paint!Using both your hands, with your thumbs together, press down on the piece of cardboard. Your 8 fingers will be the legs and the palms and thumbs will be the body.Once the paint is dried, you can stick some googly eyes to the body to really bring your octopuses alive!Easy Paper Plate OctopusMake a fantastic paper plate octopus with the easy step by step guide below. Your kids will love this craft!What You Will Need:One paper plateColourful tissueColourful pens and paintsGlueGuide:Paint, draw or colour your plates to your desire.Draw on two octopus eyes onto the plate.Add 8 strips of the colourful tissue to the plate. These will be nice flowing octopus legs.Fun Play-Doh OctopusPlay-Doh activities are great as they strengthen your kids fine motor skills. You can create some fun octopus crafts out of Play-Doh using the guide below!What You Will Need:Play-Doh!Googly eye craftsGuide:Roll the Play-Doh into a ball.For each ball, roll eight little legs and attach them to the body.Add some googly eye crafts to your new fun octopus.Paper Cup OctopusesThis cute craft is similar to the plate one, but the cup gives the octopus a 3D effect.What You Will Need:A cardboard cupColourful tissueColourful pens and paintsGlueGuide:Paint, draw or colour your cups to your desire.Glue on the googly eye crafts.Add 8 strips of the colourful tissue to the bottom of the cup.Balloon OctopusOne of our favourite octopus activities, your kids will love this easy craft. Balloons make fantastic fun octopus bodies so they are great for octopus crafts!What You Will Need:One balloonEight strips of fun and colourful tissue ribbonPermanent marker - safe for kidsGuide:Blow up the balloon. To make it easy, fill the balloon to about half capacity.Glue or tie the eight strips of ribbon to the bottom of the balloon for legs.Gently draw on some fun eyes onto the balloon.Cardboard OctopusThis easy craft is one of the easier activities but equally as fun and you’ll still love the end crafts.What You Will Need:CardboardColourful pens and paintsAny other fun craftsGuide:Cut octopus shapes out of cardboardPaint, draw, colour and stick lots of crafts to your octopusesFun Paper Chain Octopus CraftsKids love making chains and they are perfect for the legs of octopuses.What You Will Need:Lots of strips of thin cardGlueGuide:Form the first strip of card into a ring by glueing the two ends together.Wait for this to dry.Wrap a second piece of card through the first ring and glue.Repeat this process to create a chain.Make the chain as long as you like and repeat this for 8 different legs.You can then stick these legs to a body which could be a balloon, a cutout or an old bucket.Sweetie OctopusCrafty activities can also be tasty!What You Will Need:Strawberry lacesA big spherical sweet like a gobstopper or lots of softer sweets rolled onto a ball.Guide:Simply tie the strawberry laces around the body to create fun sweets, perfect for parties!Plastic Bottle OctopusYour kids will love to make these easy sustainable plastic bottle crafts. By reusing a plastic bottle you are preventing it from going into the ocean.What You Will Need:Plastic bottlePaintsGuide:Help your kids by cutting the top of the bottle off and turn the bottom of the bottle upside down to use as the body.Paint this whatever fun colour you wish.Use any sustainable and crafty material as the eight legs. For example, the paper chain legs above!Paper Bowl Octopus CraftsYour kids will love making these easy cardboard bowl activities.What You Will Need:White cardboard bowlPaintColourful strips of tissueGuide:Paint the white cardboard bowl and paint on some eyesStick on eight colourful strips of tissue so that they dangle from the bowl like legs.Craft Octopus SilhouettesYour kids will love these easy crafty silhouette activities!What You Will Need:Black cardGuide:Make card cutout of octopuses.Stick them to your wall or window to create some really stylish crafty decorations that your kids will love.Ice Lolly Stick Octopus CraftsIf your kids love ice lollies then you’ll probably have lots of ice-lolly sticks about.What You Will Need:Thin cardEight ice lolly sticksGuide:Cut a semi-circle out of the cardStick the eight ice lolly sticks to the bottom of the semi-circleThe Alphabet CraftCreate the letter O and give it eight fun crafty legs!What You Will Need:CardGuide:Cut the letter O out of the card.Cut out 8 wobbly legs and glue them to the letter O!Ocean Theme Sea Shell Octopus CraftsIf you have old shells lying about the house you can create some easy and fun octopus artwork that your kids will love.What You Will Need:Shells and any other coastal related crafty items.Guide:Using shells and any other coast related crafty items, your kids can stick them down on a piece of card to make pictures of octopuses.Pom-Pom Octopus CraftsUsing a pom-pom craft as the body and pipe cleaners as the legs, you can make fantastic pom-pom octopus crafts.What You Will Need:Pom-pomsPipe cleanersGoogly eyesSuperglueGuide:Wrap four pipe cleaners around one pom-pom to create eight legsSuperglue this to keep in place (Parents should help their kids with this for safety)Now super glue on the googly eyes.Crafty Footprint ActivitiesOne of our favourite activities. Get your feet messy and create some fun octopus footprints!What You Will Need:Child-friendly, easy washable paintCardboardGuide:Get your feet all messy with paint.Using both your feet, press down on the piece of cardboard. Your toes will be the legs!You can paint on some fun eyes to the body to really bring your crafty octopuses alive!Fabric Octopus CraftsReusing old fabric to create an ocean animal is sustainable and the material makes really fun octopus legs!Use scissors and an old t-shirt, or towel, to create the following:30 cm by 30 cm square fabric8 long strips of fabricAll the rest of the scraps torn up into smaller pieces of fabricGuide:Scrunch the smaller scraps of fabric into a ball and put into the middle of the square fabric.Wrap the bigger piece of fabric around the scrunched up fabric to create a fabric ball.Twist the end so the whole thing starts to look like a balloon, and tie a knot so the fabric doesn’t fall out.Tie the 8 long strips of fabric to this knot to create the 8 legs.Draw on some eyes and a mouth and your octopus friend is complete!
Octopuses are strange and wonderful creatures and there are lots of cute octopus crafts you can make with your kids.
