... make a MOVING SPIDER.
Find a spider or a picture of one, then make a quick sketch. Use your sketch and turn your spider into a spider that really moves!

Materials:

• Crayons or markers
• Masking Tape
• Scissors
• Straw (1)
• String or fishing line
• Tag board or construction paper
• Pencil
• Pipe cleaners (2)

• Stetch basic outline of a spider's body (cephalothorax and abdomen)
• Cut it out.
• Use this shape as the stencil to trace out a second spider body.
• Cut it out. Now you have two spider body shapes, each exactly the same size.
• Decorate to look like your spider.

• Cut out a piece of straw just a little bit shorter than the length of your spider.
• Tape the straw lengthwise to the inside of one of your spider body shapes. We will call this body shape the TOP.
• Get some thin nylon cord (fishing line is ideal). About 2 metres in length is ample.
• Fold the nylon in half and then thread the fold through the straw. Be sure to thread it through from the abdomen end or else your spider will move backwards!
• Make a loop out of the folded end of your nylon.
• Attach a piece of cardboard or ribbon at the knot which makes this loop. This will prevent the looped end accidentally threading back through the straw.
• Tie the loose ends together.
• Attach a piece of cardboard or ribbon at the knot at this end also. This will prevent the end accidentally threading back through the straw.

• Cut out some cardboard legs.
• Tape these legs to the inside the the other body shape. We can call this body shape the BOTTOM.
• Match up the insides of TOP and BOTTOM spider shapes together.
• Staple these two body shapes together.
• Hang the looped end from the ceiling or in a doorway
• You're ready to test it out!
• Pull the two lines apart
• Are there any problems with your design? Can they be fixed?

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