How to Make
- To make one crab you need two cups.
- Cut out the pincers out of the same colour card and stick them to the back of one of the cups.
- Poke two holes in the top half of the cup with a pencil about 2 cm apart.
- Thread an orange pipe cleaner from the inside through the holes.
- Spiral the top of each pipe cleaner and stick a wiggle eye on each.
- Poke 3 holes either side of the crab and cut the pipe cleaners into 3 to thread into those as legs.
- Now take some clay and roll it into a cylinder roughly the length of an AA battery but a little thicker.
- Choose a rubber band that fits from one side of the cup to the other with not much spare.
- Roll the centre of this band into the clay so that the two ends are left out. allow to dry overnight (I would always make a spare in case it cracks or the band snaps)
- Once dry take the second cup and make two snips 1 cm apart on opposite sides of the rim.
- Hook the rubber band onto each slit now slot this cup into the crab cup.
- To make the crab run you twist up the clay weight and then when it is let go the crab will run.
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