Summer Octopus Spool Craft

Make this really cute summer octopus craft from wooden spools and pipe cleaners. It's posible, too.

Materials:

• 1 wooden egg
• 8 large wooden spools(5/8" x 3/4")
• 16 medium wooden spools(1/2" x 1/2")
• 16 small wooden spools(1/2" x 3/8")
• 40 large beads
• 4 long, pink, pipe cleaners(12")
• pink, white, and black acrylic paint
• ribbon
• strong glue or glue gun
• pencil

Drections:

1. Paint wooden egg and all the spools and beads pink. Allow to dry.
2. Twist 4 pink pipe cleaners in the middle. Spread  the ends to look like an octopus.
3. For each arm of your octopus, thread on the big spool, then 2 medium spools, and 2 mall spools. Thread a bead between each spool as you go. Put a bead on after the last spool and twist the end of the pipe cleaner to secure each leg.
4. Trace and paint eyes and a mouth on your egg.
5. Glue the egg securely to the middle of your octopus.
6. Tie a ribbon around your octopus' neck.

Variation: You could adapt the same concept to make a spider craft for Halloween.

Complete tutorial with photos from: Plaid Kids Crafts