Celebrating Halloween in Russia is not as widespread as, for example, in America, but this holiday is still an excellent occasion to make interesting crafts (and not necessarily scary) from various materials: natural and improvised (disposable tableware, bags, threads, etc. ), colored paper and cardboard.
We have made a small selection of interesting ideas for crafting with children and decorating the room for this unusual holiday. The main symbols of Halloween are bats, witches, pumpkins with carved faces, spiders and webs, ghosts and vampires. These are exactly what we will produce.
How to make a spider and web
Spiders are one of the main “guests” of Halloween, so let's start with them. Making a web with your own hands is not at all difficult. For a detailed step-by-step photo master class, see the figure below. You can decorate a room for a party with these cobwebs, hanging them on threads, or simply paste them on the walls.
A web can also be made this way, using tree branches and black threads.
Here's how you can decorate your home for the holiday with a web of threads.
The spider itself can also be made in a variety of ways, for example from paper. The simplest option: cut out a circle of the required diameter from colored paper and 8 strips of the same length. Glue the strips to the circle on the sides - these will be the spider's legs, then you need to bend them in several places. All that remains is to glue the eyes and draw the mouth.
Another option: fold the paper in half and draw one half of the spider from the fold side. Cut and unfold.
Or this option is more complicated. You can make a garland or a single spider. Download the template.
What do you think of the idea of a spider made from a balloon and stripes of black fabric? As an option: the same paws can be made from strips from a garbage bag or satin ribbons. Original, isn't it? Guests will be surprised.
Origami spider in a step-by-step MK
We propose to create such a paper creature from paper:
To put it together you will need perseverance, patience and basic skills. Templates and photos will help you collect such an insect. Repeat each step of the MK step by step and you will get a wonderful paper spider.
The assembly diagram consists of several parts, you will see them below.
To work you will need a square sheet of paper measuring 30 by 30 cm.
Step by step execution:
- Take a square and bend the corners towards the center (diagonally).
- Unfold the paper as shown in the picture.
- We turn the right corner to the left, and the bottom one up. We perform similar manipulations with the remaining (three) elements of the workpiece.
- Pull the inside out.
- We bend the corner inward. Let's expand it. We bend it up.
- Fold the top corner. We repeat the same steps with the remaining nine parts of the workpiece.
- We fold the paper as in the diagram and return it to its original position.
- We bend the edges of the sheet, indicated by the arrows, inward.
- We turn the origami workpiece over and repeat the manipulations.
- Fold both sides inward.
- We bend and unbend, as in the diagram.
- We wrap the edge of the origami blank to the right.
- We turn the middle to the mark indicated by the first arrow, to the second.
- We do the same with the other sides.
- Turn the workpiece over. We repeat the previous steps.
- We fold the corner to the right in front and behind.
- Fold the bottom corner and repeat.
- Fold the top corner to the left, and do the same at the back.
- Fold to the right the corner that the arrow points to. Repeat on the reverse side.
- We turn the future craft over.
- Fold the next corner, duplicating the actions at the back. We bend the corner down and do the same on the reverse side.
- Fold part of the workpiece to the middle, on both sides and repeat.
- We bend up the corner that is in the middle.
- Fold the left corner to the right. We do a similar procedure at the back.
- We move the resulting spider legs to the sides. And we do the same with the rest of the paws.
- We stretch out a layer of paper, as in the photo. Flip over and repeat from behind.
- We bend the resulting elements upward. We turn it up again.
- Below we get a corner.
- Turn the spider over. Fold the jaw.
- We spread the paws to the side. We bend them back.
- Fold the corner back again.
- We blow into the body. He's straightening out.
- We bend the paws so that they look natural.
- The planned origami spider is ready.
A lesson for beginners will help you understand the scheme; it shows each sequential action step by step.
Video: Homemade paper spiders
How to make a bat with your own hands
How can there be such a mystical holiday without bats? Making them yourself is also not difficult. Here is a version of a garland from a slightly gloomy house and a bat hovering above it. You can make several of these hanging models and hang them, for example, near a window or in a room under the ceiling. We cut holes in the house with a stationery knife, and on the back side we glue rectangles or squares of yellow colored paper.
And such a funny winged mouse can be easily made with children and used to decorate a window. Instead of a square, there may also be triangles and circles.
Another option made of paper, only the wings here are made like an accordion.
You can make a garland of bats and hang them from the ceiling or attach them to the wall. Download the template.
And here the mouse’s body is made of colored paper rolled into a tube. You can also use a toilet paper roll and paint it black.
Making a hairy spider sitting on a decorative wreath in the form of a cobweb
The celebration of Halloween has become traditional in recent years. A creepy, but very cheerful holiday gives the opportunity not only for children, but also for adults to play pranks to their hearts' content. You can show your imagination and amaze your guests with ominous makeup, intricate dishes and table settings with gloomy decor. So we will try to decorate the house in an original way - we will create with our own hands a decorative wreath in the form of a huge hairy spider that sits in a web.
To make a decorative wreath with cobwebs we will need:
- willow branches
- black spray paint
- white cotton thread
- white fluffy yarn "grass"
- rosehip branches and dry herbs
To create a hairy spider we will need:
- felting wool black and gray
- wire
- black wool thread
- felting needle
- foam sponge
- side cutters
- narrow nose pliers
DIY decorative wreath
We will make a frame for the web from willow branches. To do this, we roll one willow branch into a ring, then we braid the required number of branches around it, creating volume. The ends of the branches do not need to be cut; the rods sticking out in different directions will give our web a natural and sinister look.
If desired, you can also stick several sprigs of dried herbs or flowers into the base.
The finished base must be painted black; acrylic aerosol paint is best for this. The paint has a strong odor, so it should be used outdoors, for example, on a balcony. Before painting, the willow base should be placed on newspapers or another surface that is not afraid to get dirty. Leave until completely dry for several hours.
We tie a white cotton thread at one end to the willow base, stretch it to the opposite side of the base, as if marking the diameter of the circle, tie the end with a strong knot and cut it off.
In the same way, we stretch a few more threads, trying to make equal spaces between them. I have only 8 threads or 16 rays extending from the center.
Next you will need white fluffy “grass” yarn; with a small piece of such thread we fix all the rays of the warp in the center and cut off the ends.
Next, we will weave a web from yarn, the idea is borrowed from the amulets of Siberian shamans, this is how their dream catcher is woven - kytgyem. The end of the yarn is fixed with a knot at the base of one of the rays, the yarn is pulled to the next ray and again fixed with a knot, thus tying a knot on each ray.
Having passed the first circle, we weave in a spiral, gradually narrowing the circles, reaching the center, we cut the thread.
The yarn looks great, giving the web a real appearance.
DIY hairy spider
Let's start making the spider with its legs. Using side cutters, cut the required amount of wire. Three blanks will be the same length, one slightly shorter for the front legs and one very small for the jaws.
We bend the wire in the shape of the letter “M”, bending the ends using narrow-nose pliers.
We braid each wire with black woolen thread, starting from the center, then in a spiral one leg, pass the end of the thread into the bend of the wire for better fixation, go up in a spiral and braid the second leg in the same way.
When all the leg pieces are ready, we begin making the abdomen, which we will make from wool. Place some wool on a foam sponge and use a felting needle to shape it into an egg-like shape.
We insert all pairs of legs inside the abdomen and fix them, continuing to felt the base of the spider.
In the same way we make the spider's head by inserting a wire with jaws inside it.
We connect the head and abdomen, cover the top with black wool, and if desired, you can also paint the spider with spray paint.
We make a drawing on the spider’s body, wrap each leg with gray wool and knock out the outline of a cross on the back. We beautifully bend the legs of our spider and place it on the web; it does not need any additional fastening.
We decorate the web according to our taste, inserting rosehip branches, bird feathers, etc. into the willow base.
The web with the spider turned out great, all that remains is to hang it on a tree at the entrance to the house or in a room on the wall.
Experiment and surprise your guests, have a nice holiday!
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Halloween Witch Craft
It will probably be difficult to imagine this event without such a heroine as the witch. You can also make such a not-at-all evil witch from colored paper. The body is a triangle, and the broom is a tree branch.
The option is worse.
