Craft: Spider Pinata

This Spider Pinata took 2 days and cost about $2 to make!

What you'll need:
Punch ball ($1 store)
Black Streamer ($0.79 at Party City)
Glue
2 white paper circles
1 red paper mouth, any shape
Flour and Water mixture
Strips of newspaper
8 strips of black cardstock for the legs

Here are the steps to make it:

 

Step 1: Blow up your punch ball (and blow up another for your kids to play with)

Step 3: Cut newspaper into one inch strips

Step 4: Mix flour and water to make the liquid glue.  I didn't measure, just eye ball it.  You want it to be liquid, not too thick

Step 5: Dip the strips of paper into the glue mixture and layer onto the balloon.  Cover it completely making sure no balloon is showing.  Do not put too many layers because it will make it difficult for the kids to break it. 

NOTE: Do this outside where you can hose off the area when you are done.  Also, wear some not-so-nice clothes.  I held the balloon between my legs while putting the strips on and my knees were soaked with glue mixture. 

Step 6: Let air dry.  It will drip, so I put a dish towel underneath.  I couldn't figure out where to hang it, but my son's bike worked perfect.  It was a nice day so it dried in about 6 hours.

Step7: Cut the balloon.  You will have a hole in the top and the bottom of the pinata shape. 

Step 8: Cut a piece of plastic in a 4x4 inch rounded edged square.  Cut two lines in the center.  Tie a rope/string to the plastic and insert into the top of the pinata hole. 

Step 9: Fill the pinata from the bottom hole with trinkets/treats.

Step10: Cut a piece of brown paper bag a little larger than the bottom hole and place over top of the hole and repeat the flour mixture strips over it.  (the brown paper bag will prevent drips from going onto your treats.)

Step 11: Let dry again

 

Step 12: Cut little slits along your streamer

 

Step 13:  Start glueing the streamer from the bottom up.  The bottom won't be pretty.  It takes a bit to get the streamer to wrap in a circle around the pinata.

 

Step 14: Fold 8 strips of black cardstock into accordian style and then glue the eyes, mouth and legs to the spider.

Other options:

~ Pumpkin.  Use a toilet paper roll and make slits at the bottom and fold outward. Put some glue on the top of the folded tabs.  Insert it into the top hole and then slip the plastic piece with the rope attached through the stem and into the pinata.  Hold the pinata by the rope to let glue set up between the tube and the pinata.  Use orange and green streamers to decorate. 

~ Ghost.  You could paint the newspaper white and then glue large sheets of white tissue paper and drap it off the bottom to look like a ghost, put a face and whalla!