Because I am impatient and one of my readers mentioned making the legs longer I had to make more spiders! Eek! Now I hate despise real spiders, so I didn't want mine to be scary, I wanted them to be cute!
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| Semi Transparent Polka Dot Ribbon |
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| Black Cotton Fabric |
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| Black Grosgrain Ribbon |
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| Black Cotton Fabric |
I think they are so stinking cute! And they cost next to nothing! I spent $1 on the table tennis balls at the Dollar Tree and I had everything else! Yipee!
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| Dollar Tree Purchase, also used these in my apothecary jars |
The table tennis balls measured 5" around, so I made 4 marks on each side 2.5" across from each other.
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| 4 dots on each side |
Next I used a teeny tiny drill bit and drilled the holes.
I cute 4 pieces of 20 gauge wire approximately 6" long and threaded it through my spider.
This is were my tutorial falls apart.....Blonde Moment! I forgot to take pictures of the rest. Boo!! Anyway, make sure your wires are even and hot glue on each side. It doesn't matter what it looks like because you will cover it up.
*When I make more I will update with pictures!*
Take your fabric or ribbon and hot glue it to the bottom. Start wrapping your soon to be spider! When I needed to change directions I would cut the fabric and hot glue it to the bottom and start over again. You can wrap as much or as little as you like, I just made sure to cover all the white spots.
When you are finished wrapping, bend your legs down so your spider stands on its own. You may have to trim a leg or two. You can use whatever you like for the eyes, 1 of my spiders has silver sharpie ovals for eyes. For the other spiders I found some really cute "eye" ribbon at WalMart. I cut out 3 sets of eyes and hot glued them on.
I really want to make some more, but I need to go buy some more ribbon for variety! How cute would a gingham spider be?!?!
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26 comments:
So precious! Love how you seen something like those cutie pie spiders out of table tennis balls!
These are THE cutest little spiders I've ever seen. They even match your pumpkins. Love them!
So cute!
I have some ping-pong balls lying around and it's not like the boys will be out in the garden much now.. hehehe :)
really cute idea!!
I love them!!!!
Kenzie - you are so creative! I love your blog and I always want to try all of your amazing ideas. I just need more time!! Keep up the good work girly, I love reading about all you do :)
Super cute sister!!! I really like the spiders with the ribbon eyes!
I typically skip Halloween and go straight to Christmas, but those spiders and the pumpkins in your earlier post have me thinking twice! So cute!
Cute Cute and you don't have to worry about them crawling in bed with you in the middle of the night!
bee blessed
mary
I hate spiders too, but yours are adorable!!!
These are THE cutest things EVER! I love love love them!!! Who would've ever guessed that a bag of ping pong balls would turn into such an adorable herd of non-scary spiders!
They are so so so cute kenzie!!!
So darling!! Did you come up with this idea yourself?? Looks like it should be featured in a crafty magazine if you ask me! :)
Those are really cute - they high spindly legs make them really whimsical.
These are adorable (and that is not a normal word for me to use when referring to spiders)! :D
That whole arrangement is to die for! So stikin cute is right!
I love Halloween and these spiders are entirely too cute!!!
Kenz... these are so darling... cutest handmade spiders ever. love them, and may have to make them soon. Hugs, Jen
I love these! What a great idea!
Love the spiders. Adorable. This would be a fun quick project that I could enlist the help of my 5 year old. Thanks.
I love these! Thanks so much for sharing the idea.
Oh my goodness....your spiders are adorable!!!!
And yes, saying spiders are adorable in any kind of sentence, DOES seem strange. LOL
Very cute! I've been kicking around a similar idea, but using balled up old grocery bags. Your ping pong balls seem more efficient!
love these! come on over and link up to MMM :)
Those are the cutest spiders I've ever seen! Thanks so much for stopping by and joining us for Anything Related!
{Rebekah}
Hi there Kenzie! I wanted to let you know that I have featured this post as a "Bookmarked on the Boardwalk" feature. Feel free to stop by, take a look at your project as well as the others, and grab a button!
Congrats on a fabulous project!
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