Beaded Halloween Spider Pattern

This Beaded Halloween Spider Pattern is a spooky fun bead craft for kids who enjoy making creepy crawly decorations. With pipe cleaners and pony beads, kids can create a bendable spider that is perfect for Halloween parties, classroom activities, or decorating a shelf, desk, or windowsill.

This easy Halloween craft is also a great way to practice patterns, counting, and fine motor skills. Kids can follow the bead pattern shown in the printable diagram, then shape the legs to give their spider its own spooky personality.

Fun Facts About Spiders

Spiders are found on every continent except Antarctica. There are around 40,000 different species of spiders, and they come in many sizes, colors, and shapes. Some spiders spin webs to catch food, while others hunt on the ground.

Supplies

• 5 black pipe cleaners
• 13 black pony beads
• 32 orange pony beads
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Use the illustrated spider pattern as your guide for bead placement.
2. Slide 7 black pony beads to the middle of one black pipe cleaner.
3. Fold the pipe cleaner in half, then slide both ends through another black pony bead. Push it up snugly against the other beads. This creates the back section of the spider.
4. Fold two pipe cleaners in half and push them through the last bead you added. These will become the spider legs.
5. Slide 3 black pony beads onto one end of the folded body pipe cleaner.
6. Slide 2 black pony beads onto the other end, then thread that same end through the third bead on the opposite side to form the spider’s head.
7. Wrap one pipe cleaner above the middle head bead and one pipe cleaner below it.
8. Trim the excess pipe cleaner used to form the head. Bend the ends slightly to help secure the beads.
9. String 4 orange pony beads onto each spider leg.
10. Bend and shape the legs so your spider can stand or look like it is crawling.

Craft Tips

You can swap the orange beads for purple, green, white, or glow-in-the-dark beads to make different Halloween spiders.

For younger kids, an adult may want to help with trimming and securing the pipe cleaner ends.

If you are making this as a classroom activity, pre-count the beads into small bags so each child has everything they need.

Patterns, Templates and Printables

Print the Beaded Halloween Spider Pattern and follow the diagram to place the beads in the correct order. This printable template helps kids see how the beads and pipe cleaners fit together before they begin crafting.