Claw'some crabs live in the sea, rivers, lakes and
sometimes on land. With a sidescuttle, eye stalks, orange,
green & blue shells they are indeed most cl'awesome creatures to help
children learn about numbers, counting & pairs, the intelligence of life
on our ocean floor and all about pincers that nip, nip, pinch!
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Print the crab outline template
and colour or collage as wished. Create your own ocean floor or print, trim
and laminate the illustrated image provided - print as many as wanted and
join them together to cover the area of the activity.
Use the three crab pictures as role play figures. Print, cut as whole
and laminate. Trim again and bend the legs down, up and down again on the
joints causing the image to 'stand'
The largest crab provides body parts that be individually cut out, laminated
and trimmed to construct crab modelsusing balls of dough.
Build the play environment with real sand, pebbles and plant.
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Print and laminate crab themed numberlines to bring numeracy and
digits 1-20 into young children's play.
Roll a length of dough and insert golf tees. Use marbles to mark off each
count.
Number
line 1 - 10
Number
line 11 - 20
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Share the importance and life of crabs during your play with some
amazing crab facts on PETA.org Warning: facts 15 to 17 show meat production.
Get to know these crustaceons
and how they too demonstrate pain - on Science.time
How to go Vegan
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Playdough
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