halloween craft for preschoolers: bottle cap spiders

You know I can't resist a good bottle-cap craft...

The bottle cap stash was coming close to overflowing in its very special under-the-kitchen-sink storage area, so I thought we should make some spiders.

All you need is some bottle caps (I like these dos equis ones), pipe cleaners, hot glue, regular glue, and googly eyes. Oh, and an enthusiastic spider-loving preschooler.

I cut the legs and then hot glued them to the back of the cap. 

Once they dried, I bent the legs out in a spidery fashion and gave them to the eyeball girl.

The eyeball girl then determines exactly how many eyes each spider gets. Some get 2, some 3, some 5, and the less fortunate, just 1.

Then we let them invade our kitchen table. And we put one by the spider paste.

As for spider books, we really like:

Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks

Do you have any favorite spider books?

{Also, if you like these, you should check out the spider hotel we recently made for them!}

Linking up to Show and Tell, Get Your Craft On, Bella Before and After, Trash to Treasure, Take a Look Tuesday, Tot Tuesday, Toot Your Horn Tuesday, Whatever Goes Wed, Show and Tell, Kids Get Crafty, Hooking up with HOH, It's Party Time, Read, Explore, Learn, the CSI Project

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