There's A Hand On Your Spider!!!

It seems that there is no end to all of the hand-painting halloween crafts for kids.  I've seen bats, cats, ghosts, spiders, and more.  This works out well for my daughter because she absolutely loves getting her hands painted.  Here's how we made a spider a couple of nights ago.

 You'll need:

Construction Paper
Scissors
Paint
Paintbrush
Glitter
Glue
Pompoms/Eyes



Have your child pick out what color they want the spider's legs to be.  Black seems to be the obvious choice right? Obviously, you've never met my daughter.  Purple legs it is.  Spread the paint on thick making sure to get the the fingers and thumb covered.

When the hands are painted, place them on a white sheet of construction paper.  I've seen various ways of placing the fingers.  I used the way that seemed easiest for my 3-year old.   In other words, she already slammed her hands down on the paper before I had a chance to place them "fingers out".  You do what you can with what you got.

I can work with this.

Now you need to pick out a color for the body of the spider.  Thanks to recent encounters with huge brown spiders in our basement, my daughter picked brown construction paper instead pink.  Still not sure where the purple legs came from though.  Cut a circle out of the paper and lay it over the hands to create the body.  Trim it to size.  If you manage to have your kid's hands placed "fingers out" you want to cover most of the palm with the body of your spider.  If your child did the "Walk of Fame" pose like mine, then just do what you can.  Glue on some eyes and a nose.

To create the smile, have your child spread a thin line of glue.  Pour some glitter over the glue smile and let it dry.

Once the glue dries, you're done.  Enjoy your spider.  Or whatever animal it is you end up with.

 A spider with biceps?
Octopus?

Let's try this again.  This time, we're not going to paint the thumb.

Her favorite part.

And, we're not doing the Hollywood Handprints position either.  Let's try placing the palms on top of each other and then adding some eyes.  That's better...

It still looks like an octopus.