Spider Mobile Craft

Your budding artist can cut and fold his way into making this spooky hanging spider mobile, honing his fine-motor skills and concept of balance. Only a few materials are needed to create this fun and festive Halloween decoration!

What You Need:

• Wire hanger
• Black construction paper
• Scissors
• Craft needle
• Google eyes
• Glue
• Black thread
• Tape

What You Do:

1. Invite your child to learn more about what a mobile is by heading to your local library to check out pictures of famous mobiles or by researching online. A mobile is a balanced, moveable sculpture that can move freely.
2. Now that your child can envision a mobile, he can gather the materials for making his spooky spider mobile. Spiders have eight legs and lots of eyes, so encourage your child to be creative with his arachnid creations!
3. Invite him to cut the circular bodies for the spiders along with several strips to use for creating the spiders’ legs.
4. Now he can begin folding accordion style the strips and attaching them to the sides of each circular spider. Folding hones fine-motor skills as well as concentration!
5. To finish the spiders, your child can glue a few googly eyes to the spiders’ bodies.
6. Now your child can tape a 1- foot length of black thread to the back of the spiders with the googly eyes facing down.
7. Invite your child to hang the spiders at different lengths along the hanger creating a balanced arrangement and then find the perfect place to display the spooky spider mobile.