I love sharing simple ideas that kids really can achieve and this easy spider craft for kids is one that’s perfect for Halloween!
Not only is this craft cute (well I think so anyway!) but it’s really easy so it’s a great craft for preschoolers too and you could use it as a way to help kids with their scissor skills or pincer grasp. Or you could just make it because you love spiders, your call.
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My kids have always loved making Halloween crafts and particuarly this year when we won’t be trick or treating it’s something we’ll probably do even more of.
Like a lot of parents I’ve definitely had the experience when my kids have picked a kids craft off Pinterest that they want to do but it’s just been way too hard for them.
With that in mind I’ve tried to keep this spider craft as easy as possible, although younger kids will still need a bit of help with cutting and actually sometimes my kids like to have a hand just because crafting is a nice thing to share too!
Using a pom pom is a really good way to do painting like this with kids because it really doesn’t matter if they don’t form the perfect circle, as long as you can get all the bits painted and glued on the paper it will still look pretty much like a spider.
Tip: If you want to get a round shape for your spiders body you could draw a circle in pencil on your paper and get your child to paint inside that.
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Spider Books for Kids
I’m always a fan of when you can match an activity up with a story to share afterwards and I think although Halloween is meant to be scary it’s also quite nice to share some spider books in which the spiders aren’t terrifying – or at least teach them the facts.
Obviously not all spiders are friendly so if you do live in an area with poisonous ones then you will need to change your approach here accordingly! Thankfully where we live the worst thing we get is a bit of a fright.
We’ve shared a lot of ideas for Halloween books for kids with this list of not too spooky Halloween books for kids and these pumpkin books but if you’d like some more inspiration why not check these books out.
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- The Very Busy Spider* by Eric Carle
- Spinderella* by Julia Donaldson
- Aaaarrgghh! Spider!* by Lydia Monks
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Easy Spider Craft for Kids
Equipment
- Reusable plate
- Clothes peg
- Black paint
- Glue
- Scissors
- Black pen
Materials
- Coloured paper or card for the background
- Black cardstock
- White scrap paper or card
- Pom pom
Instructions
- Pour some black paint onto a reusable plate.
- Use the peg to hold onto the pom pom and dip it into the paint.
- Make a circle shape using the pom pom dipped in the paint and fill in any blank spaces.
- While the paint is drying cut out the legs, mouth and eyes using black cardstock for the legs and mouth and white scrap paper or card for the eyes. Cutting the rectangle shapes out for the legs can be good scissor skills practice for younger kids while the eyes and mouth are obviously a bit harder.
- Using a black pen make a dot in the middle of the spiders eyes.
- Glue the legs, eyes and mouth onto your painted circle.
- Your spider craft is finished!
Notes
More Halloween Craft Ideas
Keep the pom poms out! Make this easy ghost craft too and get two simple activities done at once (my kids always go through about five crafts straight after each other once they’re in the mood for it!)
This stained glass pumpkin suncatcher was really popular with my kids and is a good way to discus colour mixing too.
Grab a paper plate or bowl and make this easy monster craft for kids.
Cute idea! We are going to try and do this with yarn that we have tangled in balls in a bin in the basement that I am hoarding for no reason.
Thank you! Ha, yes I have three different coloured balls of wool and can’t knit or crochet at all – I’m slowly trying to get through my stash too!
I thought I was the only crazy Mama who had way too much yarn for someone who had no idea how to knit!
We did the very similar ghost pom pom painting activity that is similar to this spider. My daughter loved it.
I’m an artist at heart, and used to love more “grown up” Halloween crafting, bit who has time for that with kids.
I just want to say, not just the ghost, but a few of your Halloween crafts have been a huge success! My daughter only just turned two, and we both have slightly different OCD tendencies. She, for instance, does not like to get her hands covered in paint (dirt, food, and any other foreign substance is fine though 🤪). I, for example, expect a two year old to know not to stick a q-tip dabbed in red paint in her ear, or to somehow dab paint within the lines and not on the window and cat.
For this spider craft, I’m just going to let her go wild on a piece of paper with the dabbing, and then cut circles out of her chaos. I will cut the legs and eyes, but she is all about using the glue stick, and if she wants her spider to have six legs all on one side, who am I to say that’s not how a spider should look.
It will certainly be interesting to compare her work from this year to next. And I have a lot of fun doing the same projects as her!
Thanks for all the great ideas and inspiration!
Thanks so much Erin and I’m really pleased to hear that your daughter is enjoying the crafts you’ve done together 😀 x x