Spider fingers!
This
is one of our favorite Halloween crafts for kids, and is very quick and simple
as well as a good way to practice cutting skills
with little kids. Older kids can let their imaginations take over and
create some really wacky spiders!
You will need: Black
paper
Scissors
Glue or sticky-tape
Googly eyes (optional) or scraps of paper and pens
Instructions: Cut a rectangle of paper approximately 3 inches by
3 1/2 inches. Fold the short side down about an inch to make a crease,
then open up again. With the crease horizontal, cut the paper up to the
crease to create the spider's 8 legs (see diagram below).
NB: You
can show the children how to make the first cut in the middle, dividing
the bottom half of the paper into 2 halves. Then show them how to divide
each half again to make quarters, then the quarters to make eighths. You
may want to draw lines for younger children to practice cutting on.
Now
wrap the spider around the child's finger and fasten with sticky-tape or
glue. Remove and decorate - either with scraps of paper or with googly
eyes. Put back on the finger and bend the legs into shape or curl them
around a pencil. Variations:
Hang the spiders up! Simply cut a
length of black yarn (wool) and attach inside the head of the spider with
a small piece of sticky-tape. Make smaller versions of these
spiders to decorate the ends of Halloween pencils.
Wrap small spiders
around straws to decorate your Halloween table! Make some bigger spiders
and scatter them around the table too. Cut a small slit on either side
of the spider's head and insert a name card to turn these spiders into
spooky place markers!
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