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Description

Learn about spiders, and make some conker spiders in this great Halloween activity (while avoiding using too much plastic).

v2: tailored more for squirrels

Resources

Conkers
Palm drills or conker drills
Ideally also conker clamps (buy from Muddy Faces) https://muddyfaces.co.uk/shop/products/conker-clamp-kids-at-work
Cotton & wire (eco) pipe cleaners - get from Conscious Crafts https://consciouscraft.uk/products/pipe-cleaners
PVA Glue
Scissors in case pipe cleaner 'legs' need trimming
Eye stickers (better than the plastic googly eyes) - and/or pens to draw on eyes. You can use acrylic ones or a white pen corrector and a black pen.

Instructions

The children can each make a spider.

Give each child a pre-drilled conker.

Next give them pipe cleaners and get them to thread through the hole. You will need 4 for 8 legs.

Talk to them about spiders as you do the activity - are spiders insects? How many legs do they have? How many eyes? What do they eat? How do they catch their food (not all use webs etc). You may want to share some photos of spiders to talk about body parts as conker spiders aren't quite true to how a spider looks - no abdomen!

Once the legs are threaded through get them to add a face to the spider. They can stick on eye stickers with the help of glue, or use pens to draw a face. They can also colour the body of the spider if they have time/ the right kind of pens.

You can also use conkers to create webs to go with - you stick wooden kebab sticks around a conker in a circle and then wrap string around to create a web. You can 'hang' your spiders on your web and make a Halloween decoration.

Tags

• conkers
• Conkers and Acorns
• halloweeen crafts
• Nature
• Nature Activities
• spiders

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• Creative - Craft
• Outdoors - Natural activity
• Skills - Creative activity