How to Make a Glitter Spider Web
Making a glitter spider web is such a fun holiday craft for kids! Use simple dollar store supplies to make this sparkly art.
Yield: 1 glitter spider web
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Baking sheet (or shallow cardboard box)
Materials
- Black cardstock
- White glue
- Glitter (multiple colours)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Draw a spider web with glue
- Start by adding a vertical line down the center of a square piece of paper.You can also use rectangular paper, but we found the webs formed better on a square.
- Next, add a horizontal line with glue, perpendicular to the first.
- Then add an angled line, going from one top corner to the opposite bottom.Repeat, making another angled line from the opposite corners.
- Connect 2 of the lines with a slightly curved line of glue, about 3/4 inch out from the center.Repeat all the way around.
- Make more curved lines about 1/2 inch away from the first ones.Then repeat, adding another row or 2 until the paper is full.
Step 3: Add glitter to the glue
- Begin by sprinkling one colour of glitter onto a small section of the glue.Make sure all the glue in that area is covered.
- Repeat, adding the same colour in different areas across the page.
- Choose a second colour of glitter and shake it onto different places on the paper.
- Repeat, using several more colours until the glue is covered completely.You can also go back and use a previous colour if you want it to be more prominently featured.
Step 4: Remove the excess glitter
- Pick up the paper and flip it upside-down. Gently shake and/or tap it to get rid of the excess glitter.
- Your glitter spider web is complete!
Step 5: Make another style of spider web
- To make a different style of spider web, use the glue to form angled lines coming down from one of the corners.
- Then connect the lines with curved lines, just like you did on the other web. Continue, working your way down the page.
- Add glitter to the glue. You can use all one colour of glitter, or do an ombre look.Here are started with blue and then used different shades of purple and pink as we worked our way down the page on an angle.Again, flip the paper to remove the excess glitter.
- Your glitter spider web craft is complete!
Video
Notes
Looking for more spider web crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Handprint Spider Craft
Watercolor Spider Web
Yarn Spider Web