🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 💬 Vocabulary Expansion — Craft activities introduce rich domain-specific vocabulary: fold, crease, overlap, layer, press, symmetrical, transparent. Children who acquire craft vocabulary develop stronger descriptive language across all contexts.
• 🧠 Pre-Writing Skills — Drawing, tracing, and mark-making with a variety of tools develops the grip strength, pencil control, and visual-motor precision that handwriting requires — making craft time genuine writing preparation.
• 🖐️ Fine Motor Skills — Cutting, gluing, folding, and manipulating craft materials directly exercises the small hand muscles and finger precision required for handwriting and other fine-detail tasks.
• 🎨 Creativity & Self-Expression — Making freely chosen creative decisions — which colors, shapes, and materials to use — develops a child's personal artistic voice and the confidence to express original ideas across all areas of life.

The Pompom Spider Preschool Halloween Craft may look a little scary, but it’s very easy to make. You can make it part of any Halloween display or you can hang it from a curtain rod or hook amid artificial spider web. Any way you use it, The Pompom Spider Preschool Halloween Craft is sure to thrill your preschooler.

Materials You Will Need

One 1 ½- inch black pompom
One 2-inch black pompom
Two 3-mm green pompoms
The two ends of a round toothpick
Four chenille sticks cut in half
Wire cutters (to cut chenille sticks)
Craft glue
Fishing line or other transparent thread or string
Black masking tape

How to Make it

Step 1:
Glue the smaller pompom to the larger one and let it dry for several hours or overnight.

Step 2:
Glue the two 3-mm green pompoms to the smaller pompom for eyes

Step 3:
Glue the toothpick tips below the eyes to look like fangs

Step 4:
Cut two of the chenille sticks in half and bend them each at a right angle to look like legs. You should have 4 L-shaped pieces. Glue them along one side of the spider’s body. Let dry thoroughly or the may fall off. When these legs are dried and are definitely attached, cut two more chenille sticks and glue them to the other side. Let dry completely.

Step 5:
If you want to hang this spider, attach the line or string to the body in the center of where the upper body with craft glue. To be doubly sure it is secure, when the glue is dry, tape black masking tape over the end of the string. Tie the other end of the string to a large paperclip opened to look like an “S”.

An Alternative Method for the Chenille Stick Legs

Instead of cutting them in half and gluing them on, twist all four chenille sticks together at the center. Glue the biggest pom pom onto the center of the twist. 

Uses for the Pompom Spider Preschool Halloween Craft

The Preschool Pompom Spider can be laid on a table or shelf as a decoration or it may be hung from lamp shades, curtain rods, trees, lighting fixtures, or anywhere your preschooler would like to see it. It can also add a nice spooky touch to the Scarecrow and Company Halloween Porch Display.

How To Make Large Halloween Pompom Spiders

This version of the Preschool Pompom Spider Craft is for older children and adults. You can make even bigger spiders if you use bigger pompoms. If you want one that is really big, make your own pompoms by wrapping black yarn around a book or something else that is stiff and sturdy and about three inches bigger than you want your pompom to be. 

Wrap many, many layers until you have a thick lump of yarn about two inches deep the entire length of the object you are wrapping. The yarn should be very dense, thick, and tightly packed together. It should not be at all loose. 

Slip a piece of yarn between the object you are wrapping and the bundle of yarn and tie it tightly to hold it together. Leave long ends on your tying yarn. Slip the yarn off the object. You will have a coil of yarn. Fold the yarn opposite your not to your knot and tie it a again, very tightly. It will now resemble a yarn bow.

Snip the loops of yarn and open it up so it looks like a big puffball, then trim it down until it looks like a pompom. The yard must be very, very densely wrapped for this. If you do not get something that looks like a pompom, you did not cut it down enough or did not use enough yarn. Depending on the size you want, you may have to make several tries to get it right. Keep all the yarn scraps and your “mistakes” for the scrap box. You will eventually use them for something.

Make a smaller pompom for the head. You may need to twist several chenille sticks together for legs or make them from felt instead. You can use big read sequins or jewels for the eyes and the ends of chopsticks for fangs.

This giant version of the Preschool Pompom Spider can be added to any Halloween display for some extra scary Halloween fun.