Here’s a festive Halloween craft that toddlers or preschoolers could make! These creepy crawly placemats make fun gifts for family or friends. The best part is that this project uses common household items you probably already have on-hand!
Clara surprised her big sister with a creepy crawly placemat this afternoon!
Here’s how to make your own creepy crawly placemat (in 5 easy steps!):
Step 1:
Wear your fanciest sunglasses and a pearl necklace. Rejoice! You have been given a black marker and construction paper!! Life is good.
Step 2:
Draw your spider webs! Perhaps your spider was drunk, or maybe he suffers from seasonal allergies which caused him to sneeze a lot while he was spinning his web. Yes, that would explain it.
Step 3:
Use the bottom of an egg carton cup dipped in black paint to stamp the bodies of said spiders.
Step 4:
Let a grown-up take it from here. Allow paint to dry completely, then add legs to each spider. Arrange your spiders between two sheets of clear contact paper.
Step 5:
Surprise your big sister with a new placemat when she comes home from school!!!
Have fun!!
Dear Valerie,
That spider had better not be drinking my beer.
Love,
Mark
Don’t worry… they don’t drink much. 😉
This is such a fun idea! I think I have to do this 🙂
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Yay!! Have fun, Jenny!!
Well, the spider was definitely very busy weaving such an intricate web. Big sister is missing on some crafty fun!
Emily was SO happy that Clara had made something for her! It was a fun surprise!
Very cute! We did a spider activity today too! http://www.icanteachmychild.com/2010/10/crayon-resist-spider-web.html
Yay!! You know what they say about great minds…. LOL 🙂
Valerie, do you have a list of all the creative ways you have used an egg carton because I would love to see that list!
-Vanessa
Here you go, Vanessa!
http://www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com/?s=egg+carton
We use them mainly for holding paint and for sorting, but have done a few crafts with them too. Have fun!!
Hurray! An idea for the little sisters! 🙂 I have two daughters who I suspect are close in age to yours (one has just started Junior Kindergarten- will be 5 in a few months) and the other will be 2 in a couple of months. Since Talia started school, I’ve been trying to come up with ideas for my littlest one- thanks for sharing this! Can’t wait to use it on T’s next school day! (How old IS Clara?)
Yay!!!! They are close in age to my girls too! Emily is 6, and Clara turned 2 in June. Your littlest one might enjoy some of the crafts listed here:
http://www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com/category/toddlers
Have fun, and welcome to FFFB!! xoxo
Very cute! I love your girls’ enthusiam!
LOL It’s contagious, isn’t it?? Thanks, Maryanne!
a spider craft for kids afraid of spiders
yes, exactly! not that…we’re afraid of spiders….. or… anything… umm.. I’m just sayin’! 😉
How cute!!! Plus you posts are always hysterical! Clara and ER must be part of the same fashion club:)
Awww… thanks, Katie! I love how ER and Clara have such similar taste in fashion! LOL
OH! I am SO doing this! Thanks to Katie’s Nesting Spot for sending me this way!
That makes me SO happy!! Welcome to FFFB, Sharon! Have fun! xoxo
LOVE IT!!!!!! My kids love to make placemats.
I laughed out loud about the drunk spider and then again when I read Mark’s comment!!
We haven’t made placemats in a really long time — they’re so much fun to make!
My kiddos will have a good time with this. Especially the sunglasses and pearls. ( ;
ROFL!! I love how sunglasses and pearls were needed for this — so much fun!!
Do those glasses also give Clara X-ray vision? I mean, think about it- she might have Spider Man AND Superman super powers combined…
I’m sure they do. She’ll be taking over the world in no time! LOL
I love the webs she drew 🙂
Awww… thanks, Rebecca! xoxo
I love the sunglasses and necklace required to do that craft. Your girls are just too darn cute!!!
Oh, yes, a must!! LOL You should see her when we go to the grocery store! 😉
I loved the sunglasses and neclace`s bit as well 😀
The egg carton cup stamping idea is great!
Well done Clara!
Hee hee!! Thanks! 🙂
This is a stupid question, but where do you get your clear contact paper? I was in Michael’s yesterday and they didn’t have any. I was thinking Target? But maybe I have to go to Home Depot? I want to make placemats for my son’s 4th birthday party in a few weeks and contact paper is holding me up! 🙂 Thanks for the help.
Not a stupid question at all — You can find it at Target, and it’s with the shelf liner. Hope this helps — they are lots of fun to make!! 🙂