The students were asked by their teacher Mdm Yeo to make edible spiders for a school project before the holidays. One student's mother helped make a spider out of pandan bread, hot dogs, eggs and straw that the family enjoyed eating for breakfast. Other students described their edible spiders which used ingredients like bread, pepero sticks, herbal jelly and nuts to form the body and legs of the spiders. One student mentioned making their spider during lunch at McDonald's.