Crab bead pattern

A Tomato crab with raised claws, branching legs, Black eyes and mouth, and Apricot cheeks.

A Tomato crab with raised claws, branching legs, Black eyes and mouth, and Apricot cheeks, on a pegboard grid.

Place the Tomato body, then follow the legs and raised claws outward on both sides. Add the Black eyes and mouth and the Apricot cheeks, keeping the openings between the claw tips empty.

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Colors & bead counts

Exact counts for this design in real Perler colors — 183 beads on a 23×16 grid. Use it as your reading chart, or open it in the maker to export a printable PDF chart.

ColorPerler nameCodeBeads
Tomato80-15211174
Black80-190187
Apricot80-152132
Total183

How to make it

  1. Set your board width to 23 beads and place the colors above by counting the grid.
  2. Prefer to tweak it? Open the maker, recreate or import the shape, and change colors, size or details — it recounts the beads live.
  3. Fuse with parchment and a warm iron per your bead brand’s instructions, and let it cool flat.

Want something different? Make your own from a photo or a word — the maker matches every cell to a real Perler shade and gives you the color counts and a printable chart.