Signing in to share a quickie craft for Halloween. Though its not a festival that we celebrate, 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

DIY Gigantic Syrofoam Plate spiders - Halloween party

For this you will need

2 Paper / Thermocol / Styrofoam or leaf plate – we used an 18″ diameter one & a 6 inch one
Black paint – acrylic
white circles
Black marker
Sponge optional
Lots of newspapers
Lots of black pipecleaners
staplers
double sided foam tape

DIY Gigantic Syrofoam Plate spiders - Halloween party decor

To make

lay all your paper plates on top on newspapers.
Using a sponge and acrylic colors, paint the backside of the plates..Let dry overnight
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 hold their shaped.
we pierced the plate with chenille sticks directly and bent them & twisted them securely. You can use chart paper accordion folded for the legs too.
We used old price tag stickers cut into circles for the eyes.
Coloured using markers .. a few lines on the body gave the illusion id them being hairy spiders.
and finally we just stapled some black net to make spider nets. I don’t have a pic of them.
To mount them on the wall, we used double sided foam tapes
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.