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DLTK's Halloween Crafts for Kids:
Halloween Spider Wreath

This is a fun spider wreath to do by yourself or with a group.

If you are doing it with a group, each person can write something spooky on one of the strips of construction paper before making it into a loop.

MATERIALS:

bulletRing of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
bulletconstruction paper (black)
bulletscissors
bulletglue
bulletsmall piece of wool

spider wreath

bulletTrace a small plate and a large plate onto a piece of old cardboard.  
  
bulletEmpty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well as a source of recycled cardboard.
  
bulletIt doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard 

trace plate

bulletCut a small strip of cardboard and glue it onto the back of the ring over any folds in the cardboard.
  
bulletThis will reinforce the ring.
  
bulletCut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
  
bulletglue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain)

reinforce

bulletGlue the rolls of construction paper onto the wreath.  We made them all black, but you could use black and orange or black, orange and green.
bulletFold a piece of black construction paper in half and cut out a 1/2 spider shape (this will make the spider symmetrical).  Use white pencil crayon to draw on a face.  This is what we did
  
bulletOR:  Use the template pieces below for the spider.
  
bulletTape a small piece of wool to the spider and the wreath so it hangs in the middle.

spider wreath

bulletClose the template window after printing to return to this screen.
 
bulletSet page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template  (color)   or   (B&W)

 

 

Printable Version of these instructions