With Halloween starting to creep up on us, I thought it was about time to start posting some Halloween crafts. Spider crafts seemed like the natural place to start — especially since they are EVERYWHERE right now at my house. I don’t mind doing the crafts, but I really don’t like the creepy little critters in real life.
Anyway, here is part one of spider crafts… enjoy!
Thumbprint Spiders – In one corner of a plain sheet of construction paper, draw a spider web with a marker. Use a black washable stamp pad or black paint and have your child put a thumbprint on the paper. Draw on the legs(8), eyes, etc. and connect the spider to the rest of the web.
Spiderwebs – Cut several pieces of yarn in various lengths. Use white glue (like Elmer’s Glue) and make a spider web pattern on a piece of construction paper. Then glue the yarn onto the paper to form a spiderweb.
Spider Hatchlings – This is just awesome! Just looking at the picture of this gives me the creeps! The kids are really excited about making one of these this year — even though I’ve been trying to talk them out of it. I hate spiders and this looks pretty realistic to me!
Ice Cream Spiders – Okay, this one isn’t exactly a craft, but it’s a lot of fun! Put a scoop of chocolate ice cream in the center of a bowl. Poke 8 pieces of black licorice along the side of the scoop to make the legs. If you can find small red candies, like red hots, you can use those for the eyes and make a pretty creepy spider.
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YEAH for creepy crafts! Thank you so much for all the fun ideas. We enjoy them sooo much!
We don’t normally celebrate Halloween (it is just starting to come into fashion in NZ) but we are going to be away from home for my sons 7th birthday so thought when we come home we would have a big party at our local childrens Playcentre so I am keeping an eager eye on what you have to offer craft wise for Halloween so that we can have a great night. The ages are 7yrs and under so anything you can send my way that isn’t too scary or…party games would be great. Love your web ideas
I did the spider hatchlings a couple of years ago me and my children loved the project. and still have it. We have gotten many coments on it.
The Spider Hatchlings look great! Juz nice 4 my Creepy Crawlers project. Love ur ideas. Thanks!