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Plastic Egg Spiders

March 29, 2016 by Crystal McClean

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I do hope you’ve had a good Easter.  We didn’t do any candy this year, both to encourage health, as well as because of a milk allergy (if you’re in the same boat, here are some great ideas for next Easter).  However, in the past the children did get a few gummy bears inside of those little colourful plastic eggs.  They’re lovely at the time, but also fun to turn into other things!  A few years back the kids made little spiders that I thought I’d share with you.

Upcycle your leftover plastic eggs into cute spiders with CastleViewAcademy

Yes, a surplus of plastic eggs around the house….they’re great for using in the play kitchen, but there are lots of other uses for them, too.  The kids were a little younger when they made these…maybe of toddler/preschool age.  So I don’t have any photos of them making these little guys as I was helping them out.

  • The supplies are ones you probably already have around the house:
  • Plastic Easter eggs
  • Scraps of yarn
  • Thick thread or string
  • White glue
  • Googly eyes or stickers
  • Looseleaf reinforcement stickers (or anything else that can be used for the mouth)

Our eggs had two little holes in the tops of them so I used a piece of silver thread to make little ‘hangers’ for the spiders.

Next I cut some bit of yarn into appropriate lengths so that one piece will fit across the egg and out both sides for the legs.

Open the egg and run some glue along the inside rim of the egg.

Place the ‘legs’ across.  We found it easier to lie them in a criss-cross pattern to prevent them falling out.

What to do with plastic Easter eggs Turn them into cute little spiders with CatleViewAcademy!

Close the egg firmly and then use your stickers and eyes to finish off the characters.  As you can see, Tristan & Kallista had fun making lots of different faces!

Fun plastic egg spiders for kids to make. Perfect to go along with Little Miss Muffett!

Now hang your egg spider up to dry for a little while so it doesn’t open like the little blue guy on the left there.

Have fun playing with your spiders, playing Little Miss Muffet, or hang them from a tree or doorknob…who knows, maybe they’ll frighten the real spiders away!

Filed Under: Craft, Easter Tagged With: Eggs, Preschool, Toddlers, Upcycle

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Comments

  1. L. E. Mastilock says

    March 29, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    Love finding more uses for the loads of plastic egg we end up with. I save most of them for the next Easter so we don’t need to buy more, but the kids have already made some of them into crafts. My son taped some to a plastic bottle to make a rocket! I like the spider idea.

    • Crystal McClean says

      March 31, 2016 at 11:29 pm

      We’ve been reusing our eggs for years, too! Those little things last forever! I love your son’s adventure with rockets, Tristan would love that!

  2. Anne Campbell says

    March 30, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    What a fun way to upcycle all those Easter eggs! My kids will love this project. We’re going to save some orange ones for Halloween. 🙂

    • Crystal McClean says

      March 31, 2016 at 11:25 pm

      Ooh, orange would be perfect for Halloween!

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