Craft this Spooky faux taxidermy for your Halloween decorating needs! This is a fun project that’s easy to do – just takes some waiting for everything to dry, and then you’re good to go.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Time to complete: 1 hour
Age range: 12+

Things you’ll need:
Unfinished lady bug shapes
Black acrylic paint
Two pipe cleaners
Gold metallic paint
Wood plaque
Sawtooth hanger
Paint brush
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Glue sticks

Things to do:
1. Paint two of the ladybug forms black, for spider bodies. Allow to dry.

2. Use the spray paint to paint the plaque gold. Allow to dry. Warm up your hot glue gun.

3. Glue the spiders to the plaque.

4. Cut 8 pieces of pipe cleaner, each to 3″ long.

5. To make a pair of legs, fold two of the pipe cleaner pieces in half.

6. Wrap the two piece around each other, then shape the ends as show. Repeat for three more sets of legs.

7. Glue the legs to the spider bodies.

8. Apply the sawtooth hanger to the back of the plaque.