Spider Halloween Crafts for Kids

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Egg Carton Spiders

What you will need:
Cardboard egg carton
Pipe cleaners
Poster paint
Elastic thread
Something to poke small holes

Instructions:
Cut the egg cups out of a cardboard egg carton. Cut pipe cleaners into 3 inch sections. To make each spider, poke four pipe cleaners through each cup sideways. Bend the ends to look like eight spider legs. Paint the spiders black or in any wildly creative way you want! After the paint has dried, attach a length of elastic thread to the middle of each spider. Have fun holding your thread and bouncing your scary spider up and down as you take it for a walk!

Spider Web Cupcake

Start with a boxed mix of devil’s food cake (or your favorite chocolate cake mix). Prepare the batter and bake it in two round pans according to the package instructions. Let it cool on a rack.

Scoop 2 cans of vanilla frosting into a large bowl and add enough green and yellow food coloring to turn it into a nice spooky green color. Spread a layer of frosting in between the two cake rounds. Use the rest to frost the entire outside of the cake.

Use black icing to draw a spider web on the top of the cake. Start by drawing lines across the top. Imagine the top of the cake is a clock. Draw a line from 12 to 6, then one from 9 to 3. Fill in the spaces with two more lines each. Then start working on the circles starting in the center of the cake and working your way out toward the edges of the cake.

Spider Cupcakes

Take a chocolate muffin, cut off the bottom and frost the entire top of it with chocolate frosting. Roll it frosted side down in chocolate sprinkles and place it in the center of the spider web on the cake. Add four pieces of black licorice to each side as legs. 

Easy Spiders

All you need for these easy spiders are black pompoms, black chenille stems (pipe cleaners), wiggly eyes and some glue. Twist four of the chenille stems together to make the eight legs of the spider. Glue the pompom in the center. If you’d like you can glue some wiggly eyes on the pompom, but the spiders are also fine as they are. These look cute stuck in plants, scattered across the table or counter and of course in some spider webs.

Spider Webs

Glue two craft sticks together forming a cross. Add two more craft sticks to form a star. Use some white or black yarn and tread it back and forth under one stick and over the other. Go all the way around several times, building your spider web. Stick one of the spiders from above in the center of the spider web. These make cute wall and window decorations.

Halloween Spider Decorations

Decorating at Halloween can be a lot of fun.  Smaller children like to be involved in decorating any way they can.  Here’s an idea for helping preschoolers decorate their classroom with some creepy crawly spiders of their own.

You will need:

• Black construction paper
• Pencils
• Scissors
• Small saucer or other round object you can easily trace
• Cotton balls
• Glue
• Black pipe cleaners
• Stapler

Make the body of the spider by tracing around a saucer on two separate pieces of black construction paper.  Help the kids cut around their pencil lines to make both sides of the spider.

When they have their spider body cut out, have them glue cotton balls to one piece of the construction paper.

Once the glue dries, place the second piece of construction paper on top and staple about 1/3 of the way around to hold the spider together. 

Now it’s time to add the legs.  Remember spiders have eight legs so they will need eight pipe cleaners per spider.  Place four pipe cleaners on each side of the spider’s body and attach by stapling the pipe cleaners to the paper. Once you have the spider stapled together have the children bend the pipe cleaners so the spider can stand on it’s own. 

Now they have their own spider decoration to place around the classroom or take home.  Remind them to be careful not to scare Mom too much once they get them home.

For information about Pumpkin Painting (a safe alternative to pumpkin carving for Preschoolers), don't miss Easy Pumpkin Painting.