Materials: Cardboard, scissors, tape, crayons or markers, four pipe cleaners per spider, two circular objects to trace (one approximately 10 cm in diameter and the other approximately 5 cm in diameter), drinking straw and a piece of string measuring 90 cm.
Instructions: To make the spider, draw two circles on the cardboard. Cut out the circles and tape them together on both sides. The bigger circle is the spider’s abdomen; the smaller is its head. Colour in any design you wish. Next, tape four pipe cleaners on the back of the head just above where it joins the abdomen. Bend the legs in the middle so two pairs point forward and two pairs point backward. Then cut two pieces of straw, each approximately 2.5 cm in length. Carefully tape them to the middle of the spider’s back pointing toward the head. The straws should be about 2.5 cm apart. Thread the string through each of the straw pieces. Leave a little of each end hanging below the body. Gently pull the ends of the strings away from each other and watch your spider go! As a cabin group, each camper could make their own climbing spiders and then race the spiders up and down a wall or the floor.
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