Children's Delight Quilt Block (click for pattern link) |
Delight your favorite child by making these fun (and educational) Spider Cookies with them!
Spider Cookies
For each spider, you will
need:
A napkin
2 chocolate sandwich
cookies (plus a few extras to allow for breakage)
4 pieces of thin red
licorice
2 Chinese noodles
8 round cake decoration
candies
6 shelled sunflower seeds
1. Place the two cookies side by side on your
napkin. A spider has 2 body parts. The front part is called the cephalothorax. The back is called the abdomen. The cephalothorax is like the head and chest
of the spider. It contains its brain and
stomach.
2. Carefully open the cephalothorax and lay each
piece of licorice across the middle of the cookie. Put the top back on the cookie. A spider’s legs grow out from the front part
of its body. (How many legs does a
spider have?) Your spider should have 4
licorice legs on each side. Spider legs
are covered with tiny hairs. It can
smell and feel vibrations with these hairs.
Spiders also have two tiny claws on the end of each leg which help it
cling to its web. If a leg is lost, a
spider can grow a new one!
3. Many spiders have 8 eyes. Lay your tiny candies on the cephalothorax in
two rows with 4 in each row. Even with
all those eyes, most spiders do not have good eyesight. How can a spider know when an insect is
caught in its web? (It feels the
vibrations with its legs.)
4. In the front of a spider’s body are its jaws
and fangs. Stick 2 noodles into the
filling of the cookie so they stick out under its eyes. Its jaws are very strong, and its fangs are
sharp and poisonous. When a spider catches
an insect, it uses its fangs in two ways.
First, it injects its prey with poison to paralyze it. Then, because spiders can only digest
liquids, it injects the insect with digestive fluids that turn its insides into
bug soup. The spider then sucks up the
meal. It leaves the crunchy outside of
the insect for another animal to enjoy.
5. Open your spider’s abdomen. This part contains the heart and lungs. In the back of the abdomen are 6 tiny
spinnerets – tubes that release thin threads of silk to make a web or an egg
sack. Place 6 sunflower seeds inside the
back part of the spider’s body to remind you of the spinnerets. Put the top back on the cookie.
Love this block!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting block! I haven't seen one quite like this before. Cute fabrics!
ReplyDeleteI was wishing for a picture of the spider cookie too.
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