3D Paper Octopus Craft

Are you ready for summer vacation and all the crafts that come with it? Immerse yourself in the underwater world by creating your own 3D paper octopus craft.

This is a really fun game, so why not make multiples with different colors.

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Summer crafts are great to do with your kids and we love making them. Octopuses are really fun to make, or you can even let your kids learn how to draw an octopus themselves.

This 3D paper octopus craft is so much fun and would look great as a wall or table decoration. The octopus can spin its head in circles and will make you smile.

If you’re ready to make this octopus with us, grab your tools and let’s get started!

How to make 3D paper crafts

What you need:

Let’s create!

Step by step guide

The body of an octopus

Use a white marker to draw a circle on the yellow paper.

Start drawing horizontal lines in a circle inside the circle.

Fill the entire circle with dashes.

Use scissors to cut out the circle.

The tentacles

Draw a small circle on the blue cardboard and eight tentacles around that circle as shown in the picture.

Use scissors to cut off the tentacles.

Glue the tentacles onto the yellow circle.

Make sure the small blue circle is in the middle of the yellow circle.

Punch a blue circle.

Push a split pin through both (a small blue circle and a tentacled circle).

Split the two ends of the split pin so that the circles are secured.

Start drawing white circles on the tentacles.

Make sure you don’t miss a single tentacle.

Use a black marker and draw each white circle on the tentacle.

Head

Take two blue rectangles and fold them in half.

Cut two vase-like shapes.

Open the vase shapes and fold the ends over.

Apply a little glue to the folded ends and stick them to the punched blue circle.

Repeat this step with the remaining vase shape, then glue them together at the top.

Comb

Take a small piece of blue cardboard, fold it in half and use scissors to make a “comb”.

We will use this comb as an octopus’s hair. We know that octopuses don’t have hair, but this will make the octopus look cool and interesting.

Fold it in half, then glue the feathers to the octopus head.

The mouth

Draw a smile with black eyeliner.

Eyes

Draw two eyes.

Use scissors to cut out the eyes.

Attach the eyes to the octopus’ head. We placed them far apart, but you can place them closer together if you want.

All has been done!

Now start turning it around. Awesome!

We bet you love this octopus craft, don’t you?

Enjoy and stay tuned for more!

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