Spooky Season is finally here! The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing and Halloween is just around the corner. Halloween is a great holiday, but many people are often faced with the question of what they can do to celebrate once they grow too old to trick-or-treat. One way that adults participate in Halloween is decorating. People can decorate their houses, hallways and dorm rooms. Here are some spook-tacular crafts for anyone to do that all cost less than $5.
Creepy Candles. Get an old water bottle, some acrylic paint, scissors, and a tea light electric candle. Please do not buy a real candle, as it is a fire hazard.
Cut the water bottle at whatever length you would like, but keep in mind that the tea light has to fit inside the bottle. Paint the outside of the bottle with your choice of color, making sure to leave some thicker and thinner lines. Let it dry. Place the candle inside the water bottle and enjoy your new masterpiece!
Web. Collect black yarn, a paper plate, and scissors. Make nine evenly spaced inch-long cuts along the edge of the plate. Thread the black yarn through each of the cuts and secure the end of the string by tying it to the end of the string attached to the yarn.
Cut off 2-3 arm-lengths of yarn from the rest of the ball, leaving one end still attached to the plate. Find the closest black line that you can see and pull the yarn through, making the circle smaller and smaller until you can see a small knot at the center. (If you would like a more complex/larger web, add more cuts to the plate.) Leave whatever leftover yarn there is attached.
Spider. Collect yarn, scissors and one double-sided Q-tip. Make one ball of yarn slightly smaller than the size of your hand.
Make six legs to attach to the large ball of yarn. (Can be more strips of yarn, paper, plastic, wires, pipe cleaners, or whatever you want. I used an old set of headphones, but I do not suggest buying headphones and cutting them just for this spider.)
Make a second ball of yarn about half the size of the previous one. Cut the ends off of the Q-tip, then glue/tape them to the small ball of yarn.
Make two legs and attach them to the small ball of yarn. Thread the leftover yarn from the web through both sides of the spider.
Spider and Web. Hang spider wherever you are permitted, and make sure to give the spider a name.
Kayla LeBeau
Kayla LeBeauis a first-year Secondary Education major with a concentration in English. She was the Arts and Entertainment editor at Montoursville Area High School for two years and has continued as the Arts and Entertainment editor on the Eagle Eye staff. Kayla has written a variety of articles for the Eagle Eye beyond Arts and Entertainment. She loves to read fantasy, adventure, and Sci-Fi novels, especially books by Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas.
