{"id":772,"date":"2017-04-27T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/crab-box-cutie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:33:04","slug":"crab-box-cutie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/kids\/crab-box-cutie\/","title":{"rendered":"Crab Box Cutie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">Transform a mini craft box into this quirky, fun crab character. With its playful design and big eyes, this charming craft is perfect for adding a touch of the seaside to your home. This is a great project for both kids and adults alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transform a mini craft box into this quirky, fun crab character. With its playful design and big eyes, this charming craft is perfect for adding a touch of the seaside to your home. This is a great project for both kids and adults alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,310,294,311,229],"tags":[612,674,565],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-seaside","category-seasons","category-summer-seasons","category-themes","tag-ocean","tag-seaside","tag-summer"],"acf":{"age":["3-5","6-9","10+"],"skill-level":["Beginner"],"time-to-make":["30 mins"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects","Art Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"KC012","time":"30 minutes plus drying time","skill_level":"Beginner","how_to_make":"<ol>\r\n<li>Paint an oval craft box red. Leave to dry and add another coat of paint if necessary.<\/li>\r\n<li>Cut two small pincer shapes out of a red sheet of foam, and eight 5cm pieces of red pipe cleaners. Glue the foam pincers to the end of two of these pipe cleaners.<\/li>\r\n<li>On each side of the oval craft box, carefully make two small holes at the bottom and one more slightly above these.<\/li>\r\n<li>Push a 5cm pipe cleaner into each of the bottom holes and bend them to make the legs, then push the pipe cleaners with the pincers on into the other holes.<\/li>\r\n<li>Make two small holes in the lid of the craft box and push the remaining 5cm pipe cleaners into them.<\/li>\r\n<li>Peel the backing off of two wiggle eyes and stick to the two pipe cleaners that are in the lid for eyes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","shopping_list":"<ul>\r\n<li>Mini washable PVA glue<\/li>\r\n<li>Black pen<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"Take the lid off before painting it to prevent it sticking to the box.","image_01":73834,"step_instruction_01":"","image_02":73835,"step_instruction_02":"","image_03":73836,"step_instruction_03":"","image_04":"","step_instruction_04":"","image_05":"","step_instruction_05":"","image_06":"","step_instruction_06":"","template":"","related_projects":"3523,18512,787,3775,14714","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zn9S5Ym38sY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=1","products":"E3513,EV6832,E779,FN277,EV7056,FE9554","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91426,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/91426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}