Foam tube and faux pelt make it well-fixed ( and cheap ) to infest your home with this spooky DIY Halloween decor .

froth and framework never seem so fearsome as when our DIY hulk spiders swagger their stuff indoors down the stairway , over the mantelpiece , or up the walls of your home . Or you may flex them into synchronizedoutdoor Halloween decorations . It ’s so easy that your colony may apace get out of manus . We ’ll show you how to make this spookyHalloween craft — and how to well hang these DIY monster wanderer decorations inside your home or on top of it . Make a 2 - foot spider , a 4 - foot spider , or a 7 - foot wanderer — or one of each !

What You’ll Need

Equipment / Tools

Materials

Instructions

How to Make Small DIY Giant Spiders

Gather Supplies

To make the smallest of the giant Halloween spiders , you ’ll need two froth ball — one should be half as broad in diameter as the other . We used half of a 2 - inch froth ball for the brain and a 4 - column inch foam half - chunk for the consistency . you may purchase foam one-half formal at a crafts storage or use a workmanship tongue to foreshorten the whole ball in one-half .

Build the Spider Body

Make Foam Legs

We indicate using adhesive strips or hooking to secure the spider to your step or mantle . you could also display themoutside of your home base .

How to Make Medium DIY Giant Spiders

This Halloween DIY giant spider is perfect for grace enceinte spaces like aholiday mantle , hearth , or a set ofdouble door . You ’ll take a froth testis and a half - area wire orb for these spiders ; we used a 4 - inch froth half formal and an 8 - column inch half - empyrean wire earth .

How to Make DIY Giant Spiders

We ’re obsessed with these DIY titan spiders . Use two half - domain wire ball to make spiders big enough to cut across an intact house . The globe matter next to nothing despite their size , making these giant spiders supereasy to hang . We used an 8 - inch and 16 - inch half - sphere wire earth . Instead of hot mucilage , habituate zip standoff to join the wire globes to form the fountainhead and body .

For this wanderer , you ’ll practice two separate pieces of fake pelt to report the trunk :

Use string , telegram , adhesive strips , or hook to suspend these giant Halloween spiders from the sides and ceiling of your home .

Large DIY fuzzy spiders climbing in a line down stairs

Credit: Marty Baldwin

Small foam ball glued to large foam ball

Two foam balls covered in brown fur

Fuzzy brown faux spider body with eight pieces of wire attached to the body

Brown fuzzy spider body with wires and foam tubes attached to make legs

Furry brown spider with eight black foam legs

spiders on fireplace mantel

Credit: Marty Baldwin

Small white foam ball glued to the side of a large silver wire sphere

Faux brown fur covering wire frame and foam ball to look like a spider

Medium size halloween spider put together

Credit: Adam Albright

make giant spiders climbing over white house

Credit: Jay Wilde

One large wire sphere and a small wire sphere attached together with zip ties

Wire sphere attached to a furry brown circle, with eight wire legs attached

Large spider body covered in brown faux fur with black foam tubes folded to look like legs

Credit: Adam Albright