DIY Fun, Gigantic Styrofoam Plate Spiders
Have fun making these gigantic Styrofoam plate spiders for Save a Spider Day. They also make a great decor idea for Halloween!
Spiders are really useful for our environment, but so many people (and kids) are afraid of them! Let’s save them.
March 14th is Save a Spider Day to help us understand why they are important.
Here’s a quickie craft for today, that can also be fun for Halloween – which is not a festival that we celebrate, but the apartment kids do venture our for Trick or Treating. And like always, Lil P expects our house corridor to be spooktacular!
I have been really really busy with work this past week and have been coming home only by 9.30 Pm. That meant we hardly had any time to decorate. But these huge spiders are really easy to make and will be a big hit for a Halloween party . So here’s how we made our
DIY Gigantic Styrofoam Plate Spiders – Halloween Party Decor
Supplies required:
- 2 Paper / Thermocol / Styrofoam or leaf plate – we used an 18″ diameter one & a 6 inch one
- Black paint – acrylic
- White paper circles/stickers
- Black marker
- Sponge optional
- Lots of newspapers
- Lots of black pipe cleaners
- Stapler
- Double sided foam tape
How to make the Styrofoam Plate Spiders:
1. Lay all your paper plates on top on newspapers. If you don’t want to use plates, you can use black construction paper. Trace the largest plate in your house and cut to make gigantic spiders. The advantage of using a Styrofoam plate for us was that I had the used ones neatly washed and kept aside for crafting and they held their shape.
2. Using a sponge and acrylic colors, paint the backside of the plates. Let them dry overnight.
3. Pierce the plate with chenille sticks directly and bend them & twist them securely. You can use chart paper folded in an accordion fashion for the legs too.
4. Cut out circles for the eyes – we used old price tag stickers.
5. Using markers, draw a few lines on the body to give the illusion of them being hairy spiders.
6. Finally, staple some black net to make spider nets. To mount them on the wall, use double-sided foam tape.
It was so much fun, we ended up making many spiders .. some big, some small, some smiley, some ferocious with eight eyes. All crawling over our front porch and door.
Tomorrow’s trick or treating is going to be fun!
Check out some more ideas for Halloween crafts:
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