Make a spooky spider frame for Halloween!
This easy Halloween craft is a fun way to display your costume photos once the fun is over. It also makes a cute keepsake decoration to hang on the wall come Halloween for years to come.
The finished spider frames don’t need to be for photographs. They could alternatively be used as festive decorations with hand-lettered messages written in them. Boo!
This easy Halloween craft was first published in 2018 and has been updated and reshared for today’s audience.
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Year by year Halloween is warming on me. I love that my kids get so excited about getting all dressed up for it and walking the streets in search of decorated houses for trick-or-treating.
Around here, not everyone celebrates Halloween (mainly just the families with kids), so the decorated houses is one way of knowing where to stop. We also take along our own bag of treats for reverse trick-or-treating. See how we do that here.
Here’s a fun way to preserve your kids’ Halloween costume memories. Make a pom pom spider frame!
All you need are a few basic craft supplies like craft sticks and yarn and you’re good to go.
You could even turn your spider frame into a fridge magnet by gluing magnets on the back.
At our house, we LOVE Halloween crafting. Getting creative with spooky themes like spiders, ghosts and monsters is so much fun, don’t you think?
Check out our printable collection of Halloween paper crafts.
But now, let’s make a spooky spider frame to display those cute costume photos in!
How to make a Spider Frame for Halloween
You will need:
- Craft sticks in Jumbo size
- White yarn
- Black paint
- Thick yarn in any colour you like for the spider
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes — or use our free printable paper eyes for a more eco-friendly version
- Craft glue
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors and paint brush
How to:
- Paint the craft sticks black and allow to dry
- Roll some thick yarn around your four fingers. If this sounds awkward or tricky you might find wrapping the yarn around a square of cardboard easier
- Slide the bunch of yarn off your fingers and tie tightly in the centre. Flip over and tie tightly on the opposite side
- Cut 2 pipe cleaners in half so you have four half-lengths
- Wrap each around the centre of your yarn. Twist and press flat so they look like spider legs
- Cut the looped ends of the yarn ball and trim into a rough ball shape on each side. This is your spider!
- Glue two googly eyes in place
- Glue the craft sticks into a frame shape.
- Wrap white yarn around the frame to look like a web. Tie it off.
- Hot glue the spider on the front
Ta-da! Now you have a spider frame. Glue a photo into place, or a sheet of paper and write a spooky halloween message on it for decoration.
Now hang it up for a spooky decoration! You can find the instructions for the cute black cat egg carton costume my daughter is wearing in the above pic here. The free printable mask template for the “Super Hero Princess” costume (something my daughter dreamed up in 1st grade) can be found here.
You might also like:
• Make a fluffy pom pom spider using our DIY pom pom maker
• These yarn doll ghosts give a spooky twist to a classic yarn dolls
• Have some fun with a spooky pom pom popper!
• Use our printable pattern to sew these cute ghost stick puppets
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