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September 23, 2015 By Chelsey

Spider Craft for Kids Using Mini Pumpkins

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Turn a mini pumpkin into an adorable spider craft for Halloween! This art project is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and on up! It also makes a fun activity to do during a Halloween party.

Follow our Halloween for Kids Pinterest board!

 

Mini Pumpkin Spider Craft for Halloween: perfect for preschool and kindergarten

 

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I love having most of our holiday and seasonal decorations made by the kids. They feel so proud when they can help ready our home for holidays with their own creations!

 

We’ve already created quite a few decorations for fall and Halloween: our tear art fall wreaths, these hanging bats, and our fall leaf mobile! Now we’ve got some cute little spider pumpkins to add to the display!

 

Halloween Crafts for Kids: Spider Pumpkins

Materials for Spider Pumpkin Craft

  • Mini pumpkin
  • Black paint and paintbrush (We used this tempera paint.)
  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googly eyes

 

Use black paint to make your spider pumpkin craft

Directions for Making Spider Pumpkin Craft

1. Start by painting your mini pumpkin black and let it dry completely. (This step both my preschooler and first grader were able to do independently.)

 

Paint your pumpkin with black paint.

 

2. Cut out eight legs for your spider from the black construction paper. Ours were about 4.5 in. x .75 in.

 

3. Accordion fold (fold back and forth) all eight legs. (My preschooler needed quite a bit of help with this step.)

 

4. Glue some googly eyes onto your pumpkin.

 

add googly eyes to your pumpkin

 

5. Glue your legs onto your black pumpkin. (I would recommend using Tacky Glue since it’s quite thick or glue dots.)

 

glue 8 legs onto your spider pumpkin

 

I think these spiders are absolutely adorable! Here’s how Theo’s turned out (my preschooler)…

 

Halloween Craft for Preschooler: Spider Pumpkin- BuggyandBuddy.com

 

… and here’s Lucy’s spider pumpkin (my 1st grader).

 

Halloween Craft for Kids: Spider Pumpkin Craft- BuggyandBuddy.com

 

These little spider pumpkins are now proudly sitting up on our mantle helping us get ready for Halloween!

 

Perfect Halloween craft for preschoolers! (Spiders made from mini pumpkins)~ BuggyandBuddy.com

*This post was originally published on September 29, 2014 and has since been updated.

 

 

 

 



 
Spider Craft for Kids Using Mini Pumpkins (Great Halloween activity!) ~ BuggyandBuddy.com

Filed Under: Bugs, Halloween, Preschool Tagged With: crafts for kids, halloween, pumpkins, spiders

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Welcome to Buggy and Buddy! I'm Chelsey, a former teacher and parent living on the central coast of California. I love sharing crafts, science, STEM and STEAM activities, free printables and more! Read More…

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