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Be Crafty Spooky Stringy Spiderwebs
Make your own glow-in-the-dark spiderwebs, and use them for Halloween decorations.
photo: making web


YOU WILL NEED

  • yard (meter) stick
  • ball of thick white yarn
  • white household glue
  • water
  • old plastic bowl or other container
  • paintbrushes
  • scissors
  • glow-in-the-dark paint
  • waxed paper

photo: drawing web
HERE'S HOW

1. SPREAD WAXED PAPER over your work surface.

2. FOR EACH WEB, cut 3 pieces of yarn 2 feet (.6 meters) long, and one piece 6 feet (1.8 meters) long.

3. IN A BOWL, mix 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) of glue with 1 tablespoon of water.

4. SOAK THE SHORTER PIECES OF YARN in the glue mixture and arrange them like spokes on the waxed paper.

5. SOAK THE LONGER PIECE OF YARN in the glue mixture and spiral it out from the center of the spokes in a web pattern.

6. LET THE WEB DRY. Paint it with glow-in-the-dark paint.

7. AFTER THE PAINT DRIES, turn the paper over and carefully peel it off the web.

8. HANG THE WEB anywhere you like.

Text by NG World staff
Photographs by Nick Kelsh
Illustration by Barbara L. Gibson

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