I love Halloween! It’s the one night of the year when you feel a true creepiness in the air, and your mind starts to summon up all the ghost stories you’ve ever heard. The dark streets are glistening with spider web, while fog machines and black lights on porches fill the night with mystery. Too many spooky decorations are never a bad thing. Halloween just wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t help add the fright. Since Halloween is right around the corner, now is the time to start planning for the big night!
I’m sure most kids have already picked out costumes by now, and parents have already planned which neighborhoods they want to take their kids trick-or-treating at. Don’t forget to help add the fright to the night with spine-chilling decorations. Cindy Newton, one of our youth instructors, has a creative idea to do just that. Here are her instructions to make a big hairy scary spider that can go anywhere in your house or yard to scare that unsuspecting trick-o-treater.
All you need is:
- 1 large styrofoam ball
- 1 small styrofoam ball
- 1 bag of large black pipe cleaners
- One long black, fuzzy feather boa
- White push-pins or googly eyes
- 1 Wooden skewer
First, connect the large and small Styrofoam balls by sticking them onto the wooden skewer. Depending on how large you want your spider’s leg you can leave the pipe cleaners long or cut them in equal lengths. Once you have your eight pipe cleaner legs, make four holes on each side of the large Styrofoam ball and glue the legs into the holes. When the legs are dry, glue the feather boa around the styrofoam balls until no Styrofoam is showing. For the final touch stick your push-pins in or glue your googly eyes on for the eyes.
NOTE: Any size Styrofoam balls will do, as long as there is one Styrofoam ball that is bigger than the other. If we want to make the legs stronger, we can twist 2 pipe cleaners together for each leg.
See how frightening you can make your spider. Cindy Newton is always coming up with new ways for kids to have fun. If you are interested in giving your kids something different to do on the weekend, check out her upcoming classes Leather Tooling for Beginners and Last Child Outside. For more information visit ColumbusState.edu/CE or call 706.507.8070. Happy Halloween everyone!
-Kindra Hunter
Create this cool spider for Halloween
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