The Great Crab Project (click to enlarge photos)

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These are the crabs that I made for the environmental learning center. They are made of a heavy gauge wire armature with Sculptey, and painted with acrylics.


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Adult male giant land crab
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Adult male giant land crab -- notice the eye stalks!
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Hermit Crab
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Spider crab
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Common blue crab
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Fiddler crab
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Fiddler crab -- hard to take his picture in focus because of the rediculously big claw
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Immature female giant land crab (this was the one I had a hard time identifying the legless carcass of)
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Mangrove Tree Crab