Halloween Crafts Kids

• A lot of yarn
• Scissors 
• 4 pipe cleaners
• Scrap cardboard
• Googly eyes and glue

• Cut a piece of yarn about 2 feet long; put it aside for later. 

• Cut a piece of scrap cardboard about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

• Wrap about a yard or two of yarn around the rectangular piece of cardboard (don't wrap the yarn too tightly or it will be hard to take it off the cardboard).

• Carefully remove the yarn loops from the cardboard (make sure the loops retain their shape).

• Place the 4 pipe cleaners on top of the loops.

• Tightly tie the 2-foot-long piece of yarn around the middle of the loops plus pipe cleaners.

• Cut the yarn loops at their edges.

• Trim the pompom so that it makes a nice circle.

• Bend the spider's legs and glue on googly eyes.

• And enjoy your spider!

• Thick, round, black balloons
• A few inches of string or yarn - or a twist tie
• 4 black pipe cleaners
• White out (liquid paper) or white paint

• Blow up a round black balloon so that it's only slightly inflated.

• Tie the balloon shut.

• Twist the balloon, making a large part (for the body) and a smaller part (for the head).

• Secure it with a piece of string or a twist tie.

• If your balloon isn't stretchy enough to do this, use two            balloons - use one for the body and one for the head.

• Tie the two balloons together with their stems.

• Fold each of 4 pipe cleaners in half.

• Twist the middle of each pipe cleaner and wrap around the twist in the balloon. This makes eight legs.

• Fold and shape each leg to look like a jointed spider's leg.

• Draw eyes and fangs, using white-out (liquid paper) or white      tempera paint.

• Black construction paper 
• Glue
• Glitter
• Old newspaper

• Working on old newspaper, draw a spider web with glue on the black construction paper.

• Start by drawing a series of intersecting lines.

• After drawing the intersecting lines, draw the curved lines          between them.

• Sprinkle glitter on the glue web.

• Gently shake the picture and let the excess glitter slide off the spider web (onto the newspaper).

• Let it dry and enjoy!