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:
- Ring of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
- construction paper (black)
- scissors,
- glue,
- small piece of wool.
Instructions:
Trace a small plate and a large
plate onto a piece of old cardboard.- Empty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well as a source of recycled cardboard.
- It doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard
Cut a small strip
of cardboard and glue it onto the back of the ring over any folds in the cardboard.- This will reinforce the ring.
- Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
- Glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain).
- Glue 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.
- Fold 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
- OR: Use the template pieces below for the spider.
- Tape a small piece of wool to the spider and the wreath so it hangs in the middle.
Craft Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set 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
