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Turtles’ scutes
are made of keratin,
the stuff that hair,

H nails, and hooves
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and dab some blotches
onto the cut-out paper.
Let the paint dry.

3 Cut the painted paper into 13 SCUTES
shapes to make the turtle’s shell.
These shapes will form the scutes
(scales) on your turtle’s shell, also
called a carapace.
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Shell Instead, it grows with them to glue.
of Your Own them. And the scutes shell with

get bigger, too.