These lolly pop spiders are SO SIMPLE and look adorably creepy! They’d make great party favours or a fantastic treat to send to school on Halloween! You could whip up at least a dozen of these in less than 15 minutes. I love treats that are easy to put together!
Wouldn’t these spider lollipops look amazing as decorations/treats on a Halloween food table? Or they’d also make terrific treats to send to school on Halloween!
This morning, we took our 5 year old out for breakfast. She was home from school because she had a fever last night, and I didn’t think I should send her to school, just in case. So we went to this little diner that has a basket of lolly pops by the door. My girls get SO EXCITED any time we say we’re going there because apparently, to a three year old and a five year old, the idea of choosing any lolly pop you want from a big basket overflowing with colourful lolly pops is the best thing ever.
So this morning after my five year old finished her oversized pancake drenched with syrup, my husband walked her up to the front of the restaurant and she chose a blue lolly pop. She brought it back to the table, opened it up, and promptly dropped it on the floor under the table. I looked at the two little pieces of dirt on it with raised eyebrows and said to her “Um, I don’t think that’s good to eat anymore?” foolishly thinking my question would make her throw it away.
But instead, she swiftly dipped it in her water glass, briefly swished it around and popped it back into her mouth before I could do anything and said “See mom, no problem! It’s clean now!” haha… I’m not much of a germophobe, but there was visible dirt on it, so I was cringing on the inside! For some reason, the whole situation made me feel old. I guess my eating-lolly-pops-off-the-floor-days are long over!
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How to Make Spider Lollipops
Materials:
- 2 Pipe cleaners (black)
- 2 Googly eyes
- 1 Tootsie pop (or other lollipop)
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Instructions:
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your materials.
Step 2: Cut the pipe cleaners
- Take two black pipe cleaners, and cut them in half.
- Line up the four pipe cleaner pieces beside each other and center them as best you can. It’s okay if the lengths aren’t perfectly even – you can bend them afterwards to make up for it.
- Place the lolly pop on top of the pipe cleaners, about 1/3 of the way in from one side.
Step 3: Bend the pipe cleaners
- Wrap the long side around the lolly pop and loop it around.
- You’ll end up with something that looks like this. I personally preferred the side that’s showing here to be the side that ends up with the eyes, but take a look for yourself, and decide which side you think looks better as the face.
- This is what the other side looks like:
- Bend the legs into little L’s. They don’t have to be perfect, just do your best to shape them into little legs. Bend the pipe cleaners slightly sideways too so you have equal spacing between all the legs.
Step 4: Attach the googly eyes
- Put a small dab of hot glue on the back side of the googly eyes.(You can also use glue tape to attach the eyes.)
- Place the eyes towards the front of the pipe cleaner spider’s body.You want the eyes about 1/3 of the way over the body. Not the middle. Not the edge. Just slightly back:
- Your lollipop spider is complete!
What glue works best to attach the googly eyes on the lolly pop spiders?
We definitely recommend using either hot glue or glue tape. Both of these options stick instantly, but if you want the eyes to really stick (and not fall off) – use hot glue.
You can also use white glue, but it will take a long time to dry and won’t stick quite as well.
What lollipops work best for these spider lollipops?
Any kind of round lollipop works well for this craft! That means you can use Tootsie Pops (like we did!), Chupa Chups, or even Dum Dums — whatever you’d like! Just keep in mind that some lollipops are smaller than others, and that will determine the body size of the lolly pop spider.
You could technically use suckers as well, but I don’t think it would look quite as nice.
My girls pulled off the spider bodies before they ate their lolly pops and played with the spider legs.
I love how they turned out! And I love how quick and easy they were!
I don’t particularly like to eat lolly pops in general anymore, but my girls love them. And they LOVED these spider lolly pops! Almost as much as they loved the lolly pop ghosts we made last week. (We had leftovers, hence the second lolly pop post this week.). And surprisingly, they love Tootsie Pops too. My 3 year old would eat three a day if I’d let her. (Don’t worry, I don’t let her…)
This post was originally published on October 6, 2015.
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Love the spider idea! I’ve seen the ghosts but never the spiders. Makes me think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” 🙂 Thanks for the idea!
Did the spider idea for my sons birthday party and ended up great! Thank you for sharing!
Great idea’s!
How long are the pipe cleaner pieces? Is it one full piece cut into 4??? ☺
2 cure-pipes coupés en 2 donc vous avez 4 morceaux !
Love the ghost
Loop the pipe cleaners around what? Do they twist with the other side? I need one more step, ha ha. Not sure how they keep the other side of legs in place.
on va en préparer demain pour la soirée de mardi ! également des fantômes ….
These are great! What size googly eyes did you use and what thickness of pipe cleaner?
You loop the pipe cleaners around the sucker stick!