This cute spider is made from a yarn pompom and pipe cleaners.

Supplies Needed:
  • A lot of yarn
  • Scissors
  • 4 pipe cleaners
  • Scrap cardboard
  • Googly eyes and glue

Instructions

1.

Cut a piece of yarn about 2 feet long; put it aside for later. Cut a piece of scrap cardboard about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

2 feet of yarn and a scrap of cardboard
2.

Wrap about a yard or two of yarn around the rectangular piece of cardboard (don’t wrap the yarn too tightly or it will be hard to take it off the cardboard).

Yarn wrapped around the cardboard.
3.

Carefully remove the yarn loops from the cardboard (make sure the loops retain their shape).

Place the 4 pipe cleaners on top of the loops. Tightly tie the 2-foot-long piece of yarn around the middle of the loops plus pipecleaners.

Four pipe cleaners on top of the loopsAfter tying it
4.

Cut the yarn loops at their edges. Trim the pompom so that it makes a nice circle.

Cut and trimmed pompom
5.

Bend the spider’s legs and glue on googly eyes.

Now you have a great, spooky spider.

Finished pom pom spider.