Playdough House for Hermit Crab Activity

We love the book House for Hermit Crab. The book has so many great ocean theme and you learn about the craft and how different ocean life live together.

This fun playdough idea has kids using a hermit crab figure and making parts of the book around the crab.

You get a fun ocean theme and fine motor work with the book at the same time.

The Playdough House for Hermit Crab is a great addition to the ocean activities on the site.

Playdough House for Hermit Crab Activity

A House for Hermit Crab (The World of Eric Carle) was one of the first books that we read by Eric Carle. It is a great book for learning more about a hermit crab and the journey he takes.

I like all the different things he collects along the way. I made a House for Hermit Crab Pack a while back. We did some activities from it before we started this activity.

What you need for this Hermit Crab Activity

• A House for Hermit Crab (The World of Eric Carle)
• Safari Ltd Incredible Creatures Hermit Crab
• playdough
• dough tools

How we did the Hermit Crab Sensory Activity

A fun playdough activity for an ocean theme. And you can also use the playdough on these ocean animals play dough mats.

Made Sure We Have All the Activity Supplies for our Hermit Crab

As we got started my youngest asked for more things to help her create her item for the hermit crab. She wanted a knife, scissors and a roller. So we pulled out the dough tools that we have.

Add Items to the Crabs Shell

We started with one small addition to his shell. We talked about this was the first new addition to his home. It is fun to see how creative kids can be while making his new home.

Keep Adding More Ocean Themes To the Hermit Crab

From there we added several more things to his shell and gave him some new friends as well. This was a fun fine motor activities and talked about what kinds of plants or animals were added to our crabs home. This was a great fine motor activity as well as learning to be creative.

And there is no limit to the ideas that kids might make for the hermit crab. You can do this one time or several times with kids.

More Ocean Ideas for Kids

A Fun Crab Walking Gross Motor Dice is great to get kids moving in different directions.

The House for Hermit Crab Printable Pack is one of the packs that was made to go with this book: A House for Hermit Crab (World of Eric Carle). It has over 40 pages of activities and is great for kids ages 2 to 7.

Ocean Themed Wreaths are simple to make and tons of fun. You have just a few items and you can a wreath you can make for the summer. Plus there are so many ocean animal stickers you can find to use for it.

Ocean Activity Pack has a mix of ocean fish with ABCs, prewriting, shapes and numbers. You have a mix of easy reader books, clip cards, tracing strips and no-prep worksheets to use with kids.

Ocean No-Prep Weekly Packs has 6 grade level weekly packs. They have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. They are made to just print and use. They have Prek, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade.

Ocean Ten Frame Set is similar to the beach with numbers 1 to 20 with ocean ten frame mats, ocean ten frame no-prep worksheets, and ocean ten frame easy reader books. This is a great ocean prek and ocean kindergarten printable.

Check out all the fun Ocean & Beach Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

We love Eric Carle at our house. If you are in the area check out the Eric Carle Museum. We learned a lot about his art and other artist as well. The girls loved it and can’t wait to visit it again!

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com