Incy Wincy Spider

Winter is well and truly here so out come the Winter Crafts. We have been singing lots of Winter inspired songs lately and Incy Wincy Spider is one of the most popular. Whilst spending lots of time on Pinterest I came across a lovely Incy Craft (unfortunately there is no link for it). Here is our version.

You will need:
Paper Rolls (we used ones from paper towel)
Egg Cartons
Pipecleaners
Foil
Wool
Paint
Hot Glue Gun

A little bit of preparation is need for this craft. I pre-cut lengths of wool, sections of foil and cut the egg cartons. I also used the hot glue gun to join two pieces of egg carton together to make the spiders body.

We started by painting our spiders bodies. There were some very unusual coloured spiders!

Miss L busy painting.

Miss O and her spiders body.

Miss G and her spiders body.

Miss A with her painted spider.

Once we had painted the spiders bodies we wrapped our cardboard tubes with foil to make it look like the water spout. We just tucked the ends down inside the tube so no gluing was needed.

Then came the tricky adult help need part. The mummy's threaded some wool through the cardboard tube and then through the egg carton. We used scissors to poke a hole in the top and bottom of the egg carton, then tied off the wool, so that when you pulled on the wool Incy Wincy would climb up and down the water spout. The children chose 4 pipecleaners to thread through the egg carton to create the spiders legs, the pipecleaners we used were quite thick which meant some of the egg cartons came unglued. We just glued these back together with the hot glue gun.

Miss L with her completed Incy Wincy.

Incy Wincy ready to Climb up the Water Spout.

These were a great hit with the kids they all wanted to play and run around with their spiders. It did take a fair bit of preparation and adult help though, but they were super cute and well worth the effort.
Enjoy x