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Are you looking for some fun spider activities for kids? October is the perfect month to teach your kids all about spiders and do some fun spider crafts for preschoolers! I know a lot of people get freaked out about spiders, but they are actually great for our ecosystem and do a lot to kill pests. These crafts are easy and fun to make whether you’re teaching little ones or in need of some Halloween crafts!

Easy Spider Crafts

Are you looking for cute spider crafts? These crafts are absolutely adorable and fairly simple for little hands to make.

Recycled CD Spider Craft – If you have a bunch of old CDs sitting around, this fun spider craft is a great idea! Don’t forget to add lots of googly eyes to your spider!

Printable Spider Craft – This adorable printable spider craft can be printed on card stock and then little hands can color, cut out the pieces, and glue the spider together!

Spider Web and Spider Craft – If you’re looking for spider web crafts you have to give this one a try! Use yarn and paper plates to create your spider web, then pom poms for the body and pipe cleaners for spider legs so he can hang out in his web!

Cupcake Liner Spiders – How adorable are these cupcake liner spiders? These spooky spiders are glued down and colored with yarn for a web, lots of googly eyes, and crayon legs.

The Very Busy Spider Web Craft – The Very Busy Spider is such a great book, and this beautiful spider web is a great activity to do with kids after reading. This is a great craft that simply uses a paper plate and twine to create the paper plate spider web!

Spider Web Suncatcher – You have to try this fun spider web art project! Kids make spider webs out of black construction paper and fill them with pieces of colorful tissue paper. This is a fun way to create a Halloween decoration!

Spider Craft Ideas

Here you’ll find even more spider crafts to make either for a Halloween party or simply to help little hands practice fine motor skills.

Scrunched Paper Spider Craft – Need an easy and simple craft? Simply scrunch some black tissue paper to make the spider’s body, add construction paper legs, eyes, and glue him to a hand-drawn construction paper web!

Cardboard Tube Spiders – Yes, you can make toilet paper roll spiders. Cut some toilet paper rolls in half and use some other simple craft supplies such as pipe cleaners, black paint, and googly eyes to create these cute little spiders.

Pom Pom Spider Craft – These may be the cutest spiders I’ve seen yet! Practice those fine motor skills with this fun craft that uses pom poms, pipe cleaners, and beads to create these cute spiders!

Paper Plate Spider Craft – We absolutely love paper plate crafts around here, like our Christmas Tree Paper Plate craft and our Jack-O-Lantern Paper Plate craft. This is one of those cute spider crafts that preschoolers can do with a little help from an adult.

Spider Web Painting – Need an idea for some spider art? This art project uses the resist painting technique with cardboard and painter’s tape. Let kids go wild painting their own spider webs!

Itsy Bitsy Spider Hand Puppet

Yarn Spider Craft – Who said you can’t have cute spiders? This adorable little spider is made with yarn and construction paper and can even be hung from a web!

Moving Spider Craft – This moving spider craft is so neat and one of those creative ideas I had not thought of doing! Use a paper plate as a spider web with a slit and hang your little spider through and move him back and forth!

DIY Paper Spider Climber – If your kids love singing, “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” they’ll love this craft! It’s made with simple craft supplies and makes a great puppet when singing the song.

Bouncing Spider Craft – We also love Little Miss Muffet activities in our house. This adorable bouncing spider makes a great puppet to come sit down beside her!

Handprint Spider Craft – What a great way to preserve your little one’s handprint in time with this cute handprint spider craft! This project is great for young kids.

Potato Masher Spiders – If you’re looking for simple spider crafts look no further. You’ll use black paint and potato mashers to stamp out the spider’s body! Don’t forget to add the spider legs and eyes. I would definitely let my younger kids give this one a try.

Spider Life Cycle – Teach your kids all about the spider life cycle with this simple printable activity.

Spider Unit Study – Do you need some fun spider lesson plans? Kids of all ages can enjoy these creepy crawlies with our fun and education spider unit study.