Eight legs, eight eyes and a silk-spinning superpower - our printable spider mask is a minibeasts essential! The spider is one of the most successful and ecologically important invertebrates on the planet, and this mask captures that multi-eyed, long-legged brilliance perfectly. Perfect for minibeasts school plays, garden wildlife classroom projects, Halloween, World Book Day, birthday parties, and web-spinning imaginative play.

The spider is a perennial Halloween favourite but earns its place in the classroom year-round - its silk-spinning ability, hunting strategies and ecological role as an insect controller make it one of the most fascinating subjects in any minibeasts topic. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Spiders!

Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight - a strand of spider silk the same diameter as a steel wire is five times stronger. Scientists have been trying to replicate it artificially for decades for applications from body armour to surgical sutures.
There are around 45,000 known species of spider - found on every continent except Antarctica, in habitats from Arctic tundra to tropical rainforest to the caves of New Zealand.
Spiders are not insects - they are arachnids, with eight legs rather than six, no antennae, and a body divided into two sections rather than three. They're more closely related to scorpions and mites than to beetles or bees.
All spiders produce silk - even species that don't spin webs use silk for egg cases, draglines, burrow linings and wrapping prey. A single spider may produce several different types of silk with different properties.
Spiders are extraordinarily beneficial - a single garden spider can eat thousands of insects per year. Scientists estimate that the world's spider population consumes more food annually than the entire human population.

Printable Spider Mask

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