(Gumnut Redback Spider for Halloween)

Halloween is not really celebrated in Australia. But this year we are having a Halloween-themed birthday party for a certain little girl who is turning eight. Every year I get so excited about the birthday celebration. We have been spending a lot of time brainstorming and organising.

I thought I would share with you how to make a redback spider for Halloween. We are using these spiders as decorations. We have made over 50 so far so they should look great en masse. These are so easy to make.
How to Make Gumnut Spiders

Materials

Gumnuts

Black Gloss Spray Paint

Black Pipe Cleaners

Hot Glue Gun

Red Glitter Glue

Method

1. Lay the gumnuts on sheets of paper and spray them black with the spray paint. Make sure that you turn them over and spray the bottom as well. Leave them to dry.
2. Take a black pipe cleaner and cut it into thirds. Put the three pieces between your fingers and twist them together in the middle.
3. When the gumnuts are dry take your hot glue gun and place a dab of glue on the gumnut just below the lip of it (who knows if that is the correct terminology, somehow I doubt it). Then stick the middle of the pipe cleaner legs onto the glue.
4. Bend the pipe cleaners so that they look like little legs.
5. With a paint brush, paint a dab of red glitter paint onto the back of the spider.

It is that easy and we had so much fun making them!

I thought I would also share some of the other ideas we came up with for the children’s Halloween party. Firstly here are the black cat invitations..

I got myself into all sorts of knots wanting the invitations to be perfect. Then we came up with these designs and Milly loved them. They were really easy to make also. I have a passion for paper and cardmaking stores and love the dye-cuts. We found these cat dyes and cut them out in black card. I just sewed on a small piece of paper for the background, Milly stuck on the cat and we used diamontes for the eyes. You all must know how much I love sewing on paper! It just makes me happy

Other ideas for the party…..

We are making a ….

• Black Cat Cake
• Black Spider Pinata
• Red jelly cups with gum snakes coming out of them.
• Black Cauldrons, by spray painting some pots black, filling in the hole in the bottom with filler and filling them with dry ice.
• Witches hat little cakes
• Lolly bags in the shape of pumpkins. I have been thinking about these every night for about a month and have not yet come up with the perfect design. Am struggling for a better design than the lolly bags for last year’s party. Remember the humbug bags?
• Pass the parcel

I am going to be quite busy this week!

Have a good time!

Mia

 

 

 

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