Tide Pool Craft - How to Model a Crab & a Chiton
How to Model Clay Tidepool Animals:
Starfish & Anemone
Crab & Chiton
Limpet & Barnacles
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How to model a crab...
Crabs usually have a thick exoskeleton and a single pair of claws. They are found in fresh and salt water and may be as tiny as a pea or up to 13 feet. They like to walk sideways and have a mixed diet of plants and animals.
How to model a chiton...
Chitons live all over the world both in cold water and tropical waters. They live on or under rocks. Chitons have a shell which is made of eight separate shell plates.
They can creep along slowly on their muscular foot and stick to rocks really well. The chiton likes to graze algae-like plants off of rocks.
Tidepool Pages:
Tidepools Introduction - what do I teach?
What lives in a Tidal Pool? How do the organisms eat? Teaching tips
How do tide pools form?
Tidepool Field Trips
Tidepool Books
Starfish art and literature
Tidepool Modeling Clay Craft
How to Model Clay Tidepool Animals:
Starfish & Anemone
Crab & Chiton
Limpet & Barnacles
More about teaching with modeling clay and modeling clay products:
Kids Modeling Clay - Basic skills and books about modeling with clay
Types of modeling clay materials with links to purchase
