With the folded edge facing you, place your child's hand so that only the top third of their palm is on the paper. Trace their four fingers with a pencil (don't trace the thumb!).
Cut out the handprint and open it up to reveal a spider!
Use glue tape to attach googly eyes to the spider.
Step 2: Paint the paper plate
Add some blue paint (or whatever colour you want!) onto a paper plate.
Use a paintbrush to spread the paint around, adding more paint if necessary. Leave the edges only partially covered for a distressed look.
Step 3: Make the spider web
Wait about 30 minutes for the paint to dry.Then take a one hole punch and punch a hole every 3 to 5 ridges along the outer edge of the paper plate.
Wind black yarn around the plate 7 or 8 times then cut.
Remove the yarn from the plate and tie one end of it through one of the holes, knotting it in place.
On the other loose end of the yarn, make a knot, to make it easier to thread the yarn through the holes.
Start threading the yarn across the plate. Push it through a hole and then back across the front. Then through another hole, and back across the front.
Continue threading the yarn across the paper plate until you're happy with your web pattern. Then knot the yarn in the last hole. You can either keep the remaining string to hang the plate, or you can cut it off.
Place the spider in its newly created web.
Your handprint spider craft is complete!
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Notes
Glue a popsicle stick on the back of the spider to make a cute puppet that can scurry across its web!