Kirsten and I made these adorable little seashell snails, or as she likes to call them - Mr. Twisters. She calls pipe cleaners twisters, so I guess that's where the name came from? While we were walking through our dollar store a couple months ago she found bags of various seashells and wanted them really badly. I was pretty sure that I could come up with at least a few crafts to make with them so I happily obliged. Stay tuned for more seashell crafts to come. They're just too easy and cute. Here's how we made these adorable little snails:
What you'll need:
seashells
pom poms
pipe cleaners
googly eyes
smooth stone
glue - I used our hot glue gun
Directions:
1. glue the bottom of your seashell to your smooth bottomed stone. This will give it something to stabilize it.
2. glue a small pom pom on the stone coming in close contact with the shell
3. cut a piece of pipe cleaner to the desired length, bend it in a 'U' shape, put some glue on it and slip it between the shell and pom pom. Allow to dry.
4. glue some googly eyes to each antennae
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These are adorable, I think my kids would have lots of fun making them. Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteha ha ha! those are so cute! what a fun craft!
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jill
Very cute!
ReplyDeleteThose are the cutest!
ReplyDeleteLove it - I see some snails in our future ...
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ReplyDeleteI linked to this craft with a picture in my blog, I liked these pretty snails very much! :)
Check the post out if you want:
https://crearescout.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/ispirazioni-animali/
I hope you are glad of it :)
Keep crafting :)
Cecilia
OMG these are the cutest! This totally reminds me of Gary on Spongebob! :)
ReplyDeleteI run Fun Family Crafts, a site similar in nature to Craftgawker and Spotlight, but different in that it's a library of craft tutorials geared only at kids. I would love it if you'd stop by and submit this to be featured! (I link to you, I don't post your tutorial on the site) Feel free to submit as many kid friendly craft tutorials as you like! http://funfamilycrafts.com/
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Just reading your back posts :) I had to stop and tell you I LOVE these snails!!!
ReplyDeleteThank-you so much ladies!
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute. I'm always looking for new things to make with seashells besides jewelry or gluing them to picture frames. May I feature this in my blog?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Sure, you can feature them on your blog. Thanks for asking!
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