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Pumpkin Spiders




Source of Recipe


Stephanie Martin


List of Ingredients




small amount of black and white acrylic paint
matte varnish spray (optional) - must be used if placing outdoors
1 roll of black paper twist ribbon
12 ft of floral wire
glue gun


Recipe



Take one fairly large pumpkin, paint 2 large eyes and a huge crooked grin in the front of the pumpkin with acrylic paint. Add 2 or 3 fangs to the grin. Wait until completely dry. Spray with matte finish (avoid very top of pumpkin by stem.)
Measure eight 15 inch lengths of the black paper twist ribbon. Untwist each length of ribbon.
Measure eight 17 inch lengths of the floral wire. Glue one length of wire to the underside of the untwisted paper ribbon. Leave approx. one inch of wire on each end exposed. These are the spiders legs obviously).

Poke one end of each leg (four on each side of the pumpkin very close to the stem. Secure the legs so the remain "standing up" with a dollup of glue from the glue gun. Place your spider in place and arrange legs. If placing spider outside poke other end of wire into ground to secure legs. You can now spray a bit more of the matte varnish at the stem area to avoid the pumpkin spider from rotting to early.

When Halloween is over, detach the legs and save them for next year. I am doing a family of these spiders and will be setting them in a large web (very inexpensive - the kind you pull apart), in my front yard. My first spider is done, and he looks great!