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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Paper Plate Spiderwebs {Kid Craft}

Last week we had a Halloween Party for our squadron. Since I'm part of the spouses group, I signed up to help plan it. We had food, games, costumes, crafts, and fun decorations. Along with bringing food and decorating for the party I also signed up to do a craft with the kids. I came up with these paper plate spider webs and the kids loved them!

These are great for young kids, whether it's for a Halloween party, preschool craft, or just for fun this weekend with your kids.

Check out these other fun preschool crafts for kids!




Supplies needed:
paper plates (simple cheap ones work great)
scissors
hole punch
yarn
bobby pins
plastic spiders
tape
crayons and stickers for decoration

This is a simple but cute project that kids from age 2 to 9 enjoyed!

Prep your plates before hand by cutting a circle in the middle of the plate. I used a big stencil to trace my circle and then used scissors to cut out the middle. Around the inside circle punch 12-14 holes. 

To make the spiderweb tape a long piece of yarn to the back of the plate and tie a bobby pin to the other side. The bobby pin isn't necessary but it helps the kids be able to sew the yarn through the holes. Have the kids criss cross the yarn from one side of the plate to the other to create the spiderweb. 

When they are done cut the yarn and tape it to the back of the plate to finish. Let them color or decorate the plate. There weren't any halloween stickers on base this year so we just decorated ours with drawings with crayons. Lastly, glue (or in my case clip) your spiders onto your web and you're done. If you want you can punch a hole in the top and tie a piece of string through it to hang up the spiderwebs.

 Here are some of the kids at the party doing their spiderwebs.

 Ariana finishing up her spiderweb.

 Me and Ariana at the Halloween party. I was a witch (which the kids loved) and Ariana was Captain America's Daughter "American Dream".

I hope you enjoy making these spiderwebs with your kids!


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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Thankful Thursday {7}



Friday I was thankful for the 0.45% of our population who have served in the global war on terror. Yea, that's not really a big number when you compare it to the 11.5% who served in WW2, and the 4.30 who served in Vietnam. To read the story that became a shirt, go here. A friend of mine posted it on Facebook.

Saturday I was thankful for free calling to the States. How else would I have a 3 hour 41 minute phone conversation with my mom! I think it was a new record!

Sunday I was thankful for internet. I was able to make a video of Ariana scooping out the "gross nasty stuff" from the inside of our pumpkin when we were carving it, and post it that night for my husband to watch when he had a chance.



Monday I was thankful for Halloween. My favorite holiday. And how awesome Ariana is! She wanted to be Elphaba from Wicked for Halloween! I'm raising that girl right.




Tuesday I was thankful that it was November. It means the beginning of another month, another month closer to him coming home.

Wednesday I was thankful for cookies. Ariana and I made a big batch of our favorite cookies. We kept some for us and shipped some to Daddy!



Today I was thankful for my washer and dryer. I did a lot of laundry today and if I had to haul all that down to a laundromat I might have just cried. I'm glad we have those in our house, we know some people that don't.

What have you been thankful for lately?


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