How to Make a Christmas Spider Web

Spiders don’t stop at eating flies. They simply love feasting on Christmas presents. You can set up this quaint little scenario when you make a Christmas spider web. People will be amazed by your innovation, craft skills and creativity when they see this amazing display.

Things You'll Need

• Little boxes
• Wrapping paper and ribbon
• Wire
• Fake spider
• Fake web
• Little Santa hat

Instructions

1. Hook up your web. The best fake webs to use for this project are those very thin, white filmy ones sold for 99 cents all over town during Halloween. If you’ve already missed that opportunity, make your own web out of a round piece of tulle or netting pulled over a circular base, such as wheel rim, crocheting rim or foam shaped like a wreath from craft stores.

2. Prepare the presents. Gather a bunch of small boxes, ring box size or smaller, and adorn in festive wrapping paper and ribbons. You can also buy miniature presents at craft stores if you’d rather not make your own.

3. Set up your spider. A spider the size of your fist or bigger looks best for a Christmas spider web. He can be rubber, cloth or even one of those little beanie stuffed animals. Pin a miniature Santa hat on his head. Throw on a mini scarf made from a scrap of wool cloth. Mini hats and spiders can be found at novelty shops, craft or toy stores.

4. Secure your parts in place. Use wire or small pins to stick the spider in the web and presents arrayed gracefully around him. For added pizazz, rip open a corner of one of the gifts and put it near the spider’s mouth.

5. Add any extras. The real innovative types may want to include a few plastic flies, also with tiny Santa hats or scarves, to make the web even more amazing.

Tips & Warnings

• A good place to hang your Christmas spider web is in a corner, where real spiders tread.