Paper Plate Octopus Streamer Craft
It’s easy to make our Paper Plate Octopus Streamer Craft with only a few simple supplies, plus they take no time at all. This is a great summer craft for all ages. They’re really fun, too, watching the crepe paper tentacle streamers waving in the breeze.
We’re having a lot of fun making crepe paper streamers lately, and octopuses seemed like a logical next craft. Perfectly summer, and perfectly fun, this paper plate octopus easily becomes one of the most beautiful creatures in your own ocean scene. It also uses those little fingerprints to make the suckers on the tentacles, making it super sweet, too.
Paper Plate Octopus Streamer Craft
To make our easy paper plate octopus craft you will need paper plates, acrylic paints in white and your colors of choice, crepe paper streamers in your colors of choice, large googly eyes, scissors, and a glue stick.
Octopus Streamer Paper Plate Craft Supplies Needed
- Paper plates
- Acrylic paint – white, your colors of choice
- Crepe paper streamers – colors of choice
- Googly eyes, large
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Fingerprint Octopus Craft Step by Step Directions
Begin by painting a paper plate in the color of your choice. We chose pink and blue for ours, purple is a standard color for an octopus, too.
Let the paint dry completely.
When the paint is dry, add two large googly eyes towards the bottom of the plate.
Now, cut 8 strips of crepe paper streamers in your color of choice for the octopus tentacles. You can make these any length you’d like. Flip the plate over and begin gluing the 8 tentacles along the bottom edge of the plate.
Continue gluing the crepe paper tentacles until all 8 are in place.
Finally, dip your finger in white paint.
Begin making fingerprints along the tentacles.
All that’s left is to let the fingerprints dry completely and you have a super cute ocean octopus craft, with wavy, mesmerizing tentacles.
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More Octopus Crafts for Kids
Need some more octopus craft ideas? Check out our Paper Bag Bubblewrap Octopus Craft, Clothespin Octopus Craft, Yarn Wrapped Octopus Craft, and our Handprint Octopus Craft to name just a few of our many summer crafts for kids at Our Kid Things!
Paper Plate Octopus Streamer Craft
This paper plate octopus craft is fun to watch waving their tentacles in the summer breeze
Materials
- Paper plates
- Acrylic paint - white, your colors of choice
- Crepe paper streamers - colors of choice
- Googly eyes, large
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Instructions
- Begin by painting a paper plate in the color of your choice.
- Let the paint dry completely.
- When the paint is dry, add two large googly eyes towards the bottom of the plate.
- Now, cut 8 strips of crepe paper streamers in your color of choice for the octopus tentacles. You can make these any length you’d like.
- Flip the plate over and glue the 8 tentacles along the bottom edge of the plate.
- Finally, dip your finger in white paint.
- Make fingerprints along the tentacles.
- Let all the paint dry completely.
Notes
The white paint will bleed through the crepe paper, so make sure your table is protected.