Zirnekļi

TUTORIAL: Arachno-Danglers

You will need:

• Plastic bottles (If you don't have any, don't buy them. Go out on a treasure hunt like I did here or ask your neighbours if they have any to donate!)
• Exacto knife and a pair of scissors
• String
• A drill and tiny drill bit
• Black acrylic paint
• Small paint brush
• Fishing line
• Large sewing needle
• Newspaper to catch the paint drippings

1. Using your drill, make 2 little holes on either side of the bottle opening.
2. Drill 1 little hole in the very bottom of the bottle.

Referring to the photo below:

3. Using an Exacto knife, cut your bottle in two where the curved top meets the straight cylindrical part of the bottle.
4. Paint the inside of both pieces. To paint the cylindrical part, I dumped a little paint inside and swished it around until the whole inner surface was black. The other piece, I painted with a little paintbrush.
5. Let any excess paint drip out onto newspaper.
6. Let the paint dry.

7. Once dry you can cut the cylindrical part as shown in the photo below (yours is painted). Yes, our spider has more than eight legs. He has mutated. Be kind; we're all different.

8. With the piece right side up, bend the legs back and fold them near the top. Fold them again at the "knee".

9. Take the small top section and cut it as shown to make eight legs (yours is painted).

10. Fold the legs back. Add knees if you wish. I made some with knees and some without.

11. Using the sewing needle, thread some fishing line through the drill holes to make hangers.

See? Your arachno-danglers are ready to sway on the breeze!

There goes the happy family now!