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Tamatoa (Crab from Moana)

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Tamatoa (Crab from Moana)

"How do I put together the crab from Moana?"

  • Has instructions

  • No-sew

Materials

  • One purple kids outfit
  • Purple felt (8 sheets 9x12 inches each)
  • Yellow felt (1 yard)
  • Cardboard (large piece for the shell base, and smaller pieces for the eyes)
  • Pipe cleaners (2 purple)
  • Large googly eyes
  • Headband
  • Stuffing (felt scraps, newspaper, tissue, or polyfil)
  • Gold glitter
  • Gold toy coins

Tools

  • Craft glue
  • Hot glue gun and sticks
  • Scissors

Instructions

Make your kid a shiny, glam, and never drab little crab with this easy DIY Tamatoa costume! Our reuseable Primary essentials will keep them comfy and happy as a clam, and your DIY magic will have them feeling fab!

For the legs:

  • Cut four matching leg sets from purple felt.
  • Stuff with anything you have - felt scraps, newspapers, or polyfil - and hot glue closed.
  • Safety pin the legs to the sides of the hoodie.

For the claws:

  • Cut two matching claw sets from purple felt.
  • Hot glue the sides and top together, leaving the bottom edge open to stick hands into like mittens.

For the eyes:

  • Cut two long strips of cardboard for the eyes and cover with purple felt and glue together.
  • Glue a large googly eye to the top of each cardboard piece. Glue the eyes to the top of the headband.
  • Glue two purple pipe cleaners between the eyes and bend them to have a wiggly shape.

For the shell:

  • Cut a large oval for the shell base from cardboard. Cut a large oval that’s bigger than the base for the shell back from yellow felt. Glue the felt around the edge of the cardboard and stuff it as you glue.
  • Use craft glue to add gold glitter to the yellow felt shell and hot glue toy gold coins on top.
  • Cut two straps from purple felt and hot glue to the back of the shell so that it wears like a backpack.

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