Tutorial Kids Halloween Crafts - Milk Bottle Top Spiders

Nothing gives away your age like being obsessed with pipe cleaners and pompoms. Yup 70's child front and centre! Except when I was little they actually were for cleaning pipes and only came in Yellow from the smoke shop. Hard to believe I'm only mid 30's right?

Moving swiftly on, just made these for the little guy and had to share, tons of fun, Pompoms, Googly eyes, Pipe Cleaners, Ribbon, and ... Milk Bottle Tops, heaven.

Milk Bottle Top

Glue on your pompoms

Glue on two more for eyes and 2 Googly eyes

Wrap base of lid in ribbon/bias tape just to hide the ugly plastic. If you have plenty of pompoms you could use those instead

Cut a small piece of Pipe cleaners for fangs and 8 Z shaped pieces for legs

Glue on fangs

Flip him/her over and glue the legs in place, hold on to each one for 5-10 secs to make sure it's glued properly or it will come off when you start rearranging the legs.

Flip it back over and play around with the legs until it either sits or stands.

 

It's ok they're tame, just don't feed them after midnight! (Ancient movie reference ahoy!)

Tutorial - PomPom Monogram

I've been meaning to do a Monogram project for soooo long and when I found these coloured pompoms in the $ store it was game, set and match, another colourful addition to baby girls hoopla wall.

What you'll need:

A ton of mini pompoms (fingertip size) if you happen upon this brand I used 6 packs because I mixed the colours up, if you're just using one colour range then 5 should suffice for a 9 inch letter

3D Letter (mine was from Walmart)

Hot Glue Gun

Picture Hanging attachment

and lastly Asbestos fingers

Before you do anything, make sure you attach your picture hanging gizmo's.  I waited until I'd finished, then I had to rest the letter on a towel when hammering so as not to flatten the pompoms, it worked, but doing it first is way easier.

Mix up the pompoms, I used two colours and wanted them to be randomly assorted so I jumbled them about on my table.

Glue gun the letter, grab some pompoms and squish them down, working in a round pattern or in diagonal strips should give a random look to their placement.

Continue around the top of the letter

Then start on the side, making sure the edge closest to the top has no gaps. I found gripping the letter between my knees made this edge easier to handle.

After you've finished the side, start on the inner edges, hot glue gun then stick pompoms down one or two at a time making sure the edge nearest the top has no gaps, the edge nearest the wall won't show so much so smal gaps there are fine.

When you get to any sharp corners squish the pompoms into the corner first then add others afterwards.

Then curse when you run out of pompoms with 2 inches left to go, finish up, then hang up on your wall and admire, doesn't it look like it's made of sweets/Candy? Yum!

and just for fun I rearranged my pompom stash into rainbow (ish) order, like a jar full of sunshine isn't it?

 

Lastly, on my girls wall with the rest of the bunch.