What's in a name?
The name 'cobweb' comes from the old english word 'atorcoppe', which means 'spider'.
What are you going to call your twiggy web?
tell us
Collect
Before getting creative you need to collect twigs for the web and leaves to make the spider and its prey :O)
collecting bag
Spin your own web
All you need to make a web are twigs, string or wool.
Place your twigs on the ground in a web shape and make the spider and its prey out of small twigs and items you find on the woodland floor.
Will you make a small web or a huge one?
If you don't want to make a twig web you can try making one like this:
web weaving
Enter the competition
Now you've created your masterpiece you can enter it into our brilliant competition and be in with a chance of winning a great prize :O)
Search for spiders
There are lots of spiders in the UK. See if you can find their names in this webby wordsearch :O)
spider wordsearch
spider wordsearch answers
How many did you find?
tell us
Spidery-art
Here's an interesting colouring sheet that can also be a maze!
How many entrances and exits can you find in the spider's web?
spider web
Send us your stories and ideas, or tell us what you've been up to in the woods:
naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Made a web and entered
the competition?
Open up the path by sticking
this sticker over the closed
barrier on your CLUB poster
- now you can carry on your adventure!