Creepy crawlies

Creepy crawlies!

 

Why not create a collection of your own homemade bugs. All you need is pipe cleaners, card, bright paint – and lots of imagination

 

You will need

 

• Corrugated cardboard

• Paint

• Pipe cleaners

• Glue

• Tissue paper

 

1. Draw a spider’s body on a piece of corrugated cardboard. Cut it out and paint it. While the paint is drying, cut four pieces from pipe cleaners for legs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Push one of the pipe cleaners through a zigzag gap in between the layers of the cardboard, near to the head. Add the other pipe cleaners, then bend them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. For the eyes, spread glue on pieces of tissue paper. Scrunch them into balls, then roll them between your hands. Glue them on and paint a dot on each one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of legs

Make a bug with lots of legs. Cut short pieces from a pipe cleaner. Slot them through the zigzag gaps in the cardboard.

 

Flying bug

Cut wings from thin paper and glue them on a bug’s back.

 

Segmented body

Make an extra-big bug by drawing three ovals for the body.

 

Feelers

Make a bug with feelers by pushing a pipe cleaner through

the head.

 

Wiggly millipede

Make a wiggly bug, by bending the cardboard into a zigzag before adding the legs.

 

 

 

About this activity

 

Taken from 1000 things to make and do

published by Usborne, price £20, ISBN:9781409536376.

Visit the Usborne website at www.usborne.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January/February 2012

All information is correct at time of publishing

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