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Paper Spider Webs

We’ve all made paper snowflakes before, but have you ever made paper spiderwebs? They’re so easy that I’m shocked that this isn’t more of a thing!? Just like for paper snowflakes, all you need for these cute decorations are square pieces of parchment paper and scissors. Adding a little touch of creepy with pipe cleaner spiders will make your Halloween this year a little bit spookier!

Instructions:

• All parts of this craft can be bought at the dollar tree, so you can make this super easy craft on a budget! All you need is:

• Parchment Paper
• Scissors
• Pipe cleaners
• Hot Glue Gun
• Pom Poms (variety sizes)

1. Tear off a piece of parchment paper. Bring one corner to the other corner to make sure you have a (reasonably) perfect square. Trim the paper if you need to.
2. Bring one corner of the square to the opposite corner and fold it in half to make a triangle. (Image 1)
3. Take the bottom corner on the right and bring it up to the top corner on the left to make a smaller triangle. (Image 2)
4. Bring the right corner to the left corner to make an even smaller triangle. (Image 3)
5. Bring the right edge of the triangle over to the left edge of the triangle, making sure the edges line up. (Image 4)
6. Trim off the extra paper at the end. (Image 5)
7. Then cut the end with a slight inwards curve. (Image 6)
8. Draw out the lines of the spider web on the parchment paper to give yourself a guide. (Or you can just eyeball it). It doesn’t matter where the folds are when you draw the lines – either side will work. (Image 7)
9. Carefully cut out the shapes along your folded paper. Just go slowly and definitely be careful not to cut all the way through. (Image 8)
10. Open up your spiderweb carefully. I had trouble getting mine to lay flat, so I ironed them on medium heat to help flatten them out. Worked like a charm! (Images 9 and 10)

Pipe Cleaner and Pom Pom Spider

• Next, you can make a super simple little spider to go along with your web! All you need are 2 pom poms and 1 pipe cleaner.

1. Cut the pipe cleaner into 4 equal pieces. If you’re using a 12″ pipe cleaner, each piece will be 3″ long. Line up the 4 pipe cleaner pieces beside each other. (Image 11)
2. Then take the longest pipe cleaner piece (if you have one that’s longer) and wrap it tightly around the middle and twist it to hold them together. (Image 12)
3. Spread out the pipe cleaners so that you have 4 “legs” on each side. (Image 13)
4. Then pinch the ends down to make creepy spider legs. (Image 14)
5. Use a hot glue gun to attach the small pom pom to the medium pom pom, and then the pom poms to the legs. (Image 15)
6. Hot glue the completed spider to its spider web to have a creepy Halloween spider web! (Image 16)