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The blue crab is the most popular crab eaten in eastern North America. After blue crabs molt, or shed their skins, and before u new shell hardens, they^yre sold and eaten as soft-shelled crabs. Delicious!

WhatYouNeed

i White paper

^ Poster paint: orange/red and black

1 Fine black marker

WhatYouDo

O To make the crab’s body, paint your palm and print onto the paper.

0 Print the crab’s legs using the length of your pointer finger.

Fingerprint the end of each leg. Print the claws using 2 fingerprints at the ends of the 2 front legs.

O For eyes, fingerprint 2 black dots.

0 When dry, circle the crabs eyes with marker.