How to Make a Spider Out of Paper

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"In this clip I'll show you how to make a spider out of paper. For this clip you will need some black cards, a stapler, a sticky stick, some black tissue paper, some bright colored paper, chalk, scissors, a pen and some wool. First you get a piece of card and your chalk which will show up on the black card and just draw a shape out in a circle and that is going to be the spider's body and head. Cut around it, it doesn't matter about really cutting exact for this one, that's going to be the spider's body but for his eyes which we want to stick out I'm going to do a chop and a stop, a chop and a stop, a chop and a stop and those will stick up and that's where I am going to stick his eyes on to and these bits can be his mouth sticking out so if you want to cut some zig zags to make it look like he has teeth you can zig zag that bit. Now the body we want it to build up a little bit thicker than that. He looks a bit too flat like that so get some pieces of flat tissue and crumple them up and wobble them in your hand a little bit and that will crumple them and get those ready to stick all over the body. Crumpled lumps and if you do it with your hands a few times it should fix down quite quickly. We'll get those stuck in a moment but first let's get the legs ready. Have you remembered how many legs we want? I think it's eight. So all you need to do is chop to the very end. It's not a chop an stop it's a chop right off the end one, two, three, four. Some can be fat legs and some can be thin legs. He's got so many he can choose which ones to run on. That's the last one. Now when you've go the legs what you need to do is some zig zag folding, down and back, down and back, down and back, down and back, zig zag them all the way along so they come out like that, wonderful legs. Bendy and wobbly. So you fold down and you fold back, you fold down and you fold back, you fold down and you fold back, a zig and a zag and a zig and a zag. That's going to be eight legs you have to get ready like that and all these pieces. Now we better start fixing them together. Hold the leg on to the head and the head on to the body or it isn't a spider, one on that side and one to match, like that side. Keep sticking that's one, two, three, four, on already and here comes leg number five. Don't you think they'll all fit right round? Going to be a squash isn't it? Going to get your stapler on so that it holds the leg down in the right place and six and seven. I haven't even zig zagged that much yet but there isn't much you can zig zag it when you've got them on. There we go. Now scary spider, he'll be ready to hang down and scare somebody if you hang them in the doorway right. These bobbly bits go on the top, get plenty of sticky and put some dots of sticky on there and then press the lump bits on to the dots, one, two so that builds the big body and makes it look a little bit fatter and lumpier. It is a bit more interesting than just a flat body and you can do as many bits as you like and remember to get them glued and that's it. Now for eyes, for eyes I like to do a semi circle so I'm going to cut two at the same time and I have folded that up, there's the fold. So on the fold and it is going up the hill and down the hill like a curly curve and then just cut through the fold. Each eye needs a center to it so that's why I need my pen so just leave one little bit so that makes the shiny bit on the eye round and round and round leaving a little bit and those can glue on those flaps we made at the front. Do you remember those, we started with those didn't we? A little bit of glue on the flaps and stick the eyes on one, two and there's his scary mouth with the teeth so the only thing we've got to do now is fix some strings so that he can dangle down. Hold the string to the middle and get your stapler in there and do it and then hold it very gently making sure the bits don't come off because they're still a bit unstuck there we go. That's how to make a scary spider out of paper."