10.26.2011
If you like making things or arachnids, then get ready for…
You will need (fig. 1):
- wooden beads
- pipe cleaners
- paint
- paint brushes
- wire cutters or scissors
- glue (hot or cold)
- googly eyes
- other stuff (optional)
1. Paint your beads.
2. Take a pipe cleaner and cut it into four pieces with wire cutters or scissors (fig. 2). If you're going to use scissors, use crappy ones — the wire will eff up the blades. This project is not worth ruining your good scissors.
3. Take a bead and shove the four pipe cleaner pieces into the hole (fig. 3). If you have something that vaguely resembles a spider, congratulations! You're doing it right.
4. Bend the pipe cleaner "legs" so that they look like spider legs.
5. Glue googly eyes on your spiders so they can see (fig. 4).
Tips:
- Skewering your wooden beads on pipe cleaners will make painting them easier. Then rest them in a cup or a vase so they don't touch anything while they dry.
- For longer legs, use two pipe cleaners per spider, cutting each into two pieces.
- Tweezers or needle nose pliers make applying the googly eyes a lot easier.
- Those sparkly pipe cleaners seem like a fun idea at the craft store, but they do not make for a very realistic looking spider.
- Put lil' spideys all over the house to frighten and confuse your loved ones!
