Candy crafts are so popular in our house around this time of yr. Recently, nosotros made these funny spiders out of lollipops and I but found them too beautiful not to share with the readers who honey to keep rails of what we brand and how nosotros do it.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween

Check out these steps and photos of our lollipop spider process! Just in case y'all'd rather follow along with a video tutorial rather than written words and stills, I've included a full 1 at the end of this postal service.

For this projection, you'll need:

  • Grey yarn
  • Blackness crepe newspaper
  • Red googly optics (white will practise if you don't have cherry)
  • Scissors
  • A glue stick
  • Four black and grey pipage cleaners
  • A small black and grey crafting pom pom

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween diy

Step 1: prep

Assemble your materials!

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween craft for kids

Step ii: cutting the crepe paper

Cut a slice from your coil of black crepe paper. I cut a rectangular piece about three inches wide and about half the length of my roll.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween cutting

Step 3: fold and cutting

Fold the piece of crepe paper yous merely cut in half and cutting forth the fold then you now have two piece of crepe paper that are exactly the aforementioned size.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween prepare

Footstep 4: wrap the lollipop

Cutting a piece of yarn about three inches long. Next, take your two pieces of black crepe paper, layered one on height of the other for opacity, and place the rounded top of the lollipop in the center, wrapping the paper down and around the candy and pinching it in at the stick.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween knot

Pace five: necktie the paper

Necktie your yarn around the based of the lollipop, pinching the crepe paper farther in towards the stick and holding it in identify. I made sure to necktie mine in a tight knot so it wouldn't come loose and I trimmed the excess yarn off the ends once it was secured.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween yarn

Step 6: make the legs

Use your scissors to trim your pipe cleaners down so they are nearly iv inches long each.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween top

Step seven: attach legs

Wrap your pipe cleaners around the lollipop stick to give your spider furry legs! I placed the center of the first pipe cleaner upwards well-nigh the based of the rounded candy and wrapped each end around the stick. The I slightly angled the 2nd i diagonally to the first, so the ends stuck out in a different direction, only placed and wrapped it in the same manner. Practise and so for all 4 pipe cleaners until you accept eight splayed spider legs. Feel free to bend, mould, and straighten them until they stick our, iv on either side, in the manner you want them to.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween glue

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween kids craft

Footstep 8: make the head and eyes

Utilise gum to ane side of your crafting pom pom and press it onto the top of your wrapped piping cleaner legs. This will be your spider'south head, sitting correct next to the lollipop, which is now the spider's body. One time your head is in identify, glue on your spider's googly optics.

Step ix: finish

Cease your spider off by angle the outer tips of your pipe cleaner legs downward to give it eight piffling feet.

How to make lollipop spiders for halloween use

You now officially have yourself a lollipop spider! It'south pretty simple, correct? Just in example you'd like to try this projection out for yourself, here's a fantastic tutorial video to help you lot!