Spiderweb Door Decoration

by Ali on October 14, 2014

I have two boys, and in true boy fashion, they love dirt, making messes, bugs, and spiders. So, to help celebrate the season, we did a spider and spiderweb craft. I’ve seen a lot of examples for making various bugs and animals out of egg cartons, but, let’s face it, the spider’s web is just as cool as the spider itself. Why not make a web for our egg carton spiders and hang it on the door? It ended up being so cute, and a perfect way to spend a sick day away from school.

What you’ll need:

An egg carton
Paint, markers, or crayons
Googly eyes
Glue
Pipe cleaners
String
Popsicle sticks

I cut the egg carton into sections of two egg cups each. I was just going to cut it into one egg-cup sections, but my six-year-old informed me that spiders have a head AND and abdomen. Then, we painted our spider bodies.

While our spider bodies dried, I made the web (my kids are a little too young to be able to do this part). I glued popsicle sticks together in a sort of circle.

Then, I wrapped string around it (as much to help it stay together as for aesthetic reasons). I cut a smaller portion of string and made it into a circle to use in the center of the web, then wrapped string around the outside popsicle circle and through the inside string circle. Finally, I wove string through it all to make the web! Don’t forget to add a loop at the top so you can hang up the web!

When our spider bodies were dry, we glued googly eyes to them and added pipe cleaner legs – two pipe cleaners cut into four pieces for a total of eight legs each.