What parts do we need to make to create a spider?
A head, a body, eyes, and legs.
What else could a spider have?
Webs, fly food, cool hair or patterns, fangs, and more!
Let’s start with what we need.
- Make a body! This will need to cover your two cardboard tubes or should be able to cover a plastic straw cut in half. We used a piece of cardboard for our body that was leftover from a past project! Your body can be any shape you want! You can also use paper or card stock if you don’t have cardboard.
- Make a head! You can make this out of cardboard, paper, or cardstock. It can be any shape you want. We made our head out of a leftover cardboard tube.
- Make or find legs! How many legs does a spider have? We decided to use paper that we folded into legs. You could use wire, pipe cleaners, or cut cardboard strips.
- Make or find eyes! You can use beads, paper, and more. We took our hot glue gun and made little circles of glue on a piece of parchment paper. We let them cool, peeled them off of the parchment paper, and then made a dot in the middle of each one with a black Sharpie marker. Do you know how many eyes a spider has?