Holly's Arts and Crafts Corner: Bats and Spiders

I realize this post is coming a bit late for this year, but it'll be here for you next year, in case you want to try it. ;-)

Above is my example for the girls to follow.
The girls and I made bats and spiders to add to our tree on the wall. These were very easy and made out of construction paper, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. We also added glitter, but that part would be purely optional. ;-)

SPIDERS:
Start by cutting out two circles, one larger than the other. And two long pipe cleaners in half so you have four pieces. Tape the pipe cleaners along the back of the larger circle so that there is an even amount of pipe cleaner on each side of circle.

Next, have child bend the legs to look like spider legs:


Then glue googly eyes onto smaller circle and draw a face with white crayon.

After you have the face doen, glue the head on at the end of the body. You can also add glue/glitter designs to the body if you like. :-)


BATS:
Start off by drawing a bat body shape for your child to cut out.


Then cut two little triangles for them to glue on the head for ears:

Then they can draw designs and a face with white crayon:

Also, add googly eyes and glitter/glue designs to your bats if you like.
Here are the girls finished projects:

Ella's bat and spider

And Lily's. :-)

And here they are added to our tree wall!

I hung the spiders from some yarn to make it look like their web.


I'm just tacking this on here at the end. Ella is wearing a spider hat in these photos that she made in her kindergarten class. Super easy, just make eight crinkle legs and attach to paper the size of the child's head. Add white circle stickers for eyes, Voila! Spider hat!

She and Lily are working on these halloween "ornaments" that I got from Michael's. There were four in a package and it came with markers and glitter glues sticks. All for like $2 I think.

We hung these from our dining room light. Okay enough Halloween crafts. We'll be moving on to turkey/thanksgiving stuff soon!