In Play-Doh, the momentary has been immortalised and made monumental, almost monolithic. Ultimately, however, the sculpture is driven by a sense of sheer fun: the infectious enthusiasm of an artist willing to strive for two decades to recreate the appearance of Play-Doh on a vast, even surreal scale — and the implied invitation for us not to judge, but to join in. If you love octopuses, then you'll absolutely love these easy and fun octopus crafts for kids. We've included fun octopus craft activities for a range of different ages.

Your child has to fill up the compound and then turn the crank. You then see eight wiggly legs begin to grow. (This also reinforces how many legs an octopus has.) Includes octopus playset, Fun Factory shark with 2 rails, treasure chest mold, fish mold, mermaid mold, shell mold, dolphin roller, lobster scissors, knife, coral roller, playmat, and 6 cans of Play-Doh Brand Modeling Compound (net weight 20 ounces/566 grams). Contains wheat. Use any sustainable and crafty material as the eight legs. For example, the paper chain legs above! Paper Bowl Octopus Crafts Help your kids by cutting the top of the bottle off and turn the bottom of the bottle upside down to use as the body.

The kit comes with Cranky the Octopus, a base with built-in moulds, six sea-themed accessories as well as five small pots of Play Doh in bright colours. Cranky the Octopus Play doh set is filled with many fun activities to keep children of all ages entertained. You can find it here. Your kids will love to make these easy sustainable plastic bottle crafts. By reusing a plastic bottle you are preventing it from going into the ocean. The set includes a wavy the whale play set with a rail, 2 cutters, Play Doh knife and 3 standard cans of Play Doh. Note that this might be a bit difficult for younger children who will need a parent’s help to get the octopus into place and set up properly, so although the recommended age is 3+ this isn’t really an activity they can entertain themselves with for long without parental input.

For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. All of the accessories are easy to use and although the moulds obviously don’t come out as perfectly as the box, they are still fun to use. There are additional moulds on the octopus’s base. You can create orange octopus legs or multi color legs. It’s all up to your child’s creative imagination. Add 8 strips of the colourful tissue to the plate. These will be nice flowing octopus legs. Fun Play-Doh Octopus My 9 year old absolutely loved the treasure chest. She enjoyed creating her own version of treasure.Using a pom-pom craft as the body and pipe cleaners as the legs, you can make fantastic pom-pom octopus crafts. To operate it, you need to push the plate inside to the bottom with your finger or un-wind it using the crank, and then fill with a blob of Play Doh as seen in the picture below.

Make a fantastic paper plate octopus with the easy step by step guide below. Your kids will love this craft! In 2014, Jeff Koons (b. 1955) was the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. It was in this colossal show that the artist debuted his monumental sculpture, Play-Doh , a sculpture that had already become legendary in the two decades of its creation. Namely; a pair lobster scissors (which the kids used to snip Cranky’s legs – no wonder he’s cranky), a treasure-chest which is also a mould to make coins, a clam shell ring mould, a fish mould, a dolphin cutter and a coral-textured rolling pin. Never has a sculpture so apparently simple been so deeply complex to create,’ says Francis Outred, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’sin London. ‘This was the sculpture that took the longest to produce and pushed its creator to new feats of engineering.’

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Play-Doh activities are great as they strengthen your kids fine motor skills. You can create some fun octopus crafts out of Play-Doh using the guide below!