How Do Spiders Make Webs? 🕷️ | The Scrapbook Crew | Spider Web Song for Kids

A little spider is spinning a shiny web in the morning garden... and spiders have a clever secret! Pip, Snip and Old Tuk get closer to find out how spiders make webs. Spiders have eight legs, so they are not insects. The silk comes out of tiny taps at the back of the spider's tummy, called spinnerets: inside, the silk is runny like a liquid, and when the spider pulls it out, it turns into a thread! Snip snips a paper model of a spider's tummy to see the little bags of silk inside. To start a web, the spider lets out a long thread and the breeze carries it across. Then come the spokes, like a wheel, and last a sticky spiral. Why doesn't the spider get stuck? Tiny hairs, a special coating on her legs, and very careful steps! A web thread is more than twenty times thinner than a hair, and the morning dew makes it sparkle. And the secret: many spiders eat their old web and use that silk again to make a brand new one! Old Tuk remembers holding the very first thread... until the breeze carried him away (or did he read about it?). Then everyone sings "Spin, Spin, Spin a Web"! In this episode kids learn: • spiders have eight legs: they are not insects • spider silk comes out of spinnerets at the back of the tummy • inside the spider, silk is runny; pulled out, it becomes a thread • a web starts with a thread carried by the breeze, then spokes, then a sticky spiral • spiders don't stick thanks to tiny hairs, a special coating and careful steps • a web thread is more than 20 times thinner than a hair • many spiders eat their old web and reuse the silk for a new one Chapters 0:00 A spider making a web! 0:12 Silk taps: spinnerets 0:43 Inside a paper spider tummy 1:06 How a web is built 1:36 Thinner than a hair 1:49 The old web secret 2:07 Tuk and the breeze 2:25 Song: Spin, Spin, Spin a Web 3:48 What did we learn? Facts checked with: Australian Museum — Spider webs Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — Why spiders do not stick to their own sticky webs The Conversation (University of Hull) — Curious Kids: why is spider silk so easy to break? Indiana Public Media, A Moment of Science — Spiders Recycling BBC Wildlife (Discover Wildlife) — Why do spiders eat their own webs? British Arachnological Society — Orb web construction Kidspace Children's Museum — Ask Kidspace: Spiders The Scrapbook Crew is a hand-made paper cut-out cartoon. Every episode is researched, written and directed by a real person; the characters and voices are storytelling tools.