How to Make Halloween Pipe Cleaner Crafts
These Halloween pipe cleaner crafts are SO CUTE and fun to make! Follow our step-by-step tutorials to make a pipe cleaner ghost, pipe cleaner spider, and pipe cleaner pumpkin.
Yield: 3 Halloween pipe cleaner crafts
Cost: $2
Equipment
Materials
- Pipe cleaners (white, purple, orange, green)
- Googly eyes
- Soft pastels
Instructions
Find what you need:
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Make a pipe cleaner ghost:
- To make a pipe cleaner ghost you'll need 12 white pipe cleaners.
- Fold a pipe cleaner in half.
- Repeat with the rest of the pipe cleaners.
- Gather the pipe cleaners into a bundle. Wrap another pipe cleaner around the bundle, about 2 inches in from the end (the side opposite the folds).
- Then fold the short ends up, wrapping them around to form a rounded ghost head.
- Bring the folded pipe cleaners down to cover the head.
- Repeat with the rest of the bundle, placing them evenly around the head.
- Shape the ghost, bending the folded ends out like a wavy ghost.
- Add self-adhesive googly eyes to the ghost head.If your googly eyes aren't self-adhesive, attach with hot glue.
- Then use a soft pastel (or actual blush) to add pink rosy cheeks.
- Your pipe cleaner ghost is complete!
Make a pipe cleaner spider:
- To make a pipe cleaner spider you'll start with 4 purple (or black) pipe cleaners.
- Line the pipe cleaners up and fold the bundle in half to find the center. Twist them together several times in the middle.
- On one side of the bundle fold the 4 pipe cleaners into legs so about 1/3 of the length goes out from the center horizontally, and 2/3 of it goes down vertically.
- Repeat on the other side and then separate them so there's 4 legs on each side, evenly spread out.
- Grab a new pipe cleaner and begin wrapping it around the center of the bundle to make the spider's body.
- Repeat with a second pipe cleaner to fill out the body and finish by tucking in the end.
- Then attach googly eyes to the side of the spider's body. You can add 8 like a real spider, 2 for a friendly spider, or any number of eyes you'd like.
- Your pipe cleaner spider is complete!
Make a pipe cleaner pumpkin:
- To make a pipe cleaner pumpkin you'll start with 10 orange pipe cleaners.
- Twist the end of one pipe cleaner to another to create a long pipe cleaner. Repeat with the rest of the pipe cleaners, so you have an extra long string of orange pipe cleaners.
- To form the pumpkin you'll need something thick (about 1 inch), like a glue stick, to wrap the pipe cleaners around.If you don't have a glue stick the right size you can make a tube from cardstock.
- Wrap the pipe cleaner length around the glue stick, placing the wraps right beside each other so they don't overlap.
- As you wrap more of the length the glue stick will become full. Compress the wraps together with your fingers to get more room, and allow them to slide off the opposite end of the glue stick when needed.
- Once the whole pipe cleaner is coiled around, slide the glue stick out.
- Cut a piece of orange pipe cleaner about 5 or 6 inches long. Gather the coil together.
- Slide the pipe cleaner through the center of the coil and then twist the two ends of the short pipe cleaner together.
- Arrange the coil evenly around the pipe cleaner so it forms a rounded pumpkin.
- Cut a green pipe cleaner in half. Wrap one half loosely around a pencil or pen to create the pumpkin's coiled vine.
- Fold the other section in half and then in half again, creating the pumpkin's stem.
- Attach the vine to the stem and then slide them into the middle of the pumpkin.You can secure them with a dot of hot glue, if needed.
- Your pipe cleaner pumpkin is complete!
Video
Notes
Looking for more pipe cleaner crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Pipe Cleaner Sunflowers
Lollipop Spiders
Beaded Pipe Cleaner Corn