Friendly Black Spider Preschool Halloween Craft

This preschool Halloween craft is so simple and inexpensive to make, you can invite the entire family. The Friendly Black Spider Preschool Halloween Craft can be hung in your window or over a door to greet trick-or-treaters, but it is equally fun to hang anywhere in the house for a spooktacular Halloween decoration.

Materials You Will Need

Two sturdy black paper plates, black on both sides
8 black chenille sticks
Black construction paper
A small piece of red yarn
Two 3 mm green pompoms or any color you like
Craft glue
Hole punch
Marking pen
Long String

How to Make It

Step 1:
Glue the two plates together, face to face, with the bottoms on the outside. Choose one side to be the face.

Step 2:
Trace a circle the right size to be a face on the black construction paper; cut it out.

Step 3:
Glue the construction paper circle onto the lower part of the front plate to be the spiders face because spiders hang upside down.

Step 4:
Glue the two pompoms on the face to be the spider’s eyes. Draw a nice smile on her face or cut a bit of red yarn and curve it into a smile and glue it on.

Step 5:
Punch one hole for hanging at the top of the spider, the opposite side of the plates from her head. 

Step 6: 
Punch four evenly spaced holes on the left side of the plate then punch four more to match on the right side.

Step 7:
Poke a chenille stick through each of the holes to be legs. Wrap the end of the chenille stick around the edge of the plate to secure. Bend the legs at a right angle to look like knees.

Step 8:
Tie the string through the hole in the top and hang anywhere appropriate.

Helpful Tips for Parents

Tip 1:
If you can’t find black paper plates, use white ones and paint or color them black.

Tip 2:
You might want to enforce the edges of the plates with invisible tape before you punch the holes to help prevent tearing. Cover enough area with tape so that the hole will be punched in the middle of the tape.