Friday, October 21, 2011

Spook-tac-u-lar Day 21: Spider Plate (And a Winner)

Welcome back to Day 21 of the Spook-tac-u-lar Halloween Crafts.  Be sure to stop by and see what Rhonda has to share with you at http://www.scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/ when you are finished visiting here.

Before we get to today's project, I would like to announce the winner of this week's giveaway.  The winner picked by random org is Comment 16, which belongs to Cricut Couple!  Congratulations, I will be sending you an email and get this mailed out to you once I get your address.  Also, remember there will be a new giveaway on Monday, so everyone will have another chance to win next week. :)

Now, for today's project I have a Spider Plate to share with you.  This is a simple and cute decoration that we will be using on the dessert table at our Halloween Party.


To make this plate, you will need:  a black charger plate (bought at Hobby Lobby), a small black bowl (bought at Target), two medium sized google eyes, eight black pipe cleaners, and a hot glue gun to attach everything.

First, I glued the two google eyes to the top of the large plate.

Next, I took my pipe cleaners and glued them to the bottom of the small bowl.  I glued four on each side to make the legs.  To begin with, just glue them down and leave them pointing straight out.

Next, use the hot glue to attach this bowl to the large plate (you can tell mine is not exactly center, but it works fine).  Once that is down, you can bend the pipe cleaners to be folded like legs and then glue them down to the bottom of the place to keep their shape where they bend around it.

When you turn your plate back over, you can finish shaping the pipe cleaners so that they fold down to the ground like legs.
And that is all there is too it.  You now have a cute spider plate for your Halloween treats.  You could also use smaller bowls and plates to make these in various sizes or even use other colors to have green or purple spiders if you wanted to.

I am adding this to the following challenge:
Decorate to Celebrate: Halloween Party Decorations: http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/



20 comments:

Rhonda Emery said...

this is too cute of an idea so neat for your party.

Eva Laney said...

super cute and fabulous for party serving.
Eva :0)
http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com

Rhonda Emery said...

thank you for joining us for the halloween challenge at decorate to celebrate I love this spider plate.

Stacy said...

Jean,
This is really adorable. Such a cute and simple idea for any Halloween party
Hugs, Stacy

Cricut Couple said...

Oh Jean, thank you so much for the contest and the win, but Holy Cow Girl! Where to you get these ideas! This is AMAZING! What in the world gave you the inspiration to make a plate into a spider? I am gonna make one of these up for our Halloween party at work! How cool!!!

Angi Barrs said...

Wow...this is so clever. And kiddos would get a kick out of making it. :)

Jens Craft Corner said...

This spider is just too cute! So glad to hear you are having a Halloween party to display all these great projects. Great project today!

Doris P. said...

totally creepy and awesome!! doris
parkernana5@cox.net

Norma said...

WOW!! jean fantastic idea and a must do:) Thank you for joining us at Decorate to Celebrate on the Halloween challenge. Have a fantastic weekend!
Hugs,
Norma

abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...

This is so super fun and would be a great project with the kids!
Carri~abusybee
www.doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com

Peggy Sue said...

awesome, what a cool idea!
mrsroddy4@aol.com

Running Turtle said...

Simply adorable...what a FUN way for dinner or a potluck with plates like these!!! So creative!!!
TinaB

Luanne said...

this is super cute! great project

Luanne
myfootahead(at)gmail(dot)com
http://craftersreference.blogspot.com/

Audrey Frelx said...

Omg, Jean, this really is just super cute!

Anonymous said...

Something so easy & so darn cute!Love the big google eyes!TFS
rosebud222222222@aol.com

Valerie said...

Very cool spider plate!

callyannc said...

Man you are good! Where do you get these ideas! Too cute! TFS CallyAnn

Melissa said...

Wow, I totally have to make these and surprise my kids on halloween at dinner!!! Thanks for sharing at Decorate to Celebrate. -Melissa (Decorate to Celebrate guest designer) craftygator.blogspot.com

Sherrie K. said...

Very cool! A bit spooky but still like this idea:)
Sherrie K
http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

Sunshine HoneyBee said...

Like the creative use of the black plates for spideys.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com