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By Carrie Ypma on January 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

Candy Spiders: Easy Idea for Valentine’s Day or Halloween

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Candy Spiders Easy Craft for Kids using heart shaped chocolates

Make heart shaped chocolates into candy spiders for Valentine’s Day cards or Halloween treats. This fun craft is an easy idea you can create with your kids.

If your child loves creepy crawly critters, these easy heart shaped candy spiders are going to be a big hit. This kid’s craft is a great idea to use on Valentine’s Day cards or to hide as a Halloween prank.

Candy Spiders Easy Craft for Kids

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I love creating fun birthday gift tags, Halloween treats and Valentine cards for my boys to give to their friends at school. When our youngest son who we call “C2” here on the blog was in 3 year old preschool a few years ago, I made him funny Knock Knock Joke Valentine’s Day cards. They even included super silly googly eye glasses that we found at our local dollar store. 

When he was in 4 year old preschool, he insisted that he wanted a little toy trinket on his Valentine’s. So we made cute airplane Valentine’s Day cards that said, “You make my heart soar!”

Chocolate candy spiders on a table top ready to be a Halloween treat or to make into kids Valentine's Day cards

For kindergarten, he really wanted store-bought Spider-man Valentine’s Day cards. As much as I love to draw and make our own, I relented as long as we could make cute candy spiders to go with them.

Candy Spider Valentines - make cute little spiders out of heart shaped chocolates and attach them to store bought Valentine's Day cards

Thankfully heart-shaped chocolates are readily available for Valentine’s Day. I just knew they’d make the perfect body for our candy spiders. It was important to me to make these as a kid’s craft so that C2 could be involved with creating his own cards for his classmates.

How to Make CANDY SPIDERS

Today, I’ll show you step-by-step how C2 and I made the candy spiders for his Valentine’s Day cards. While we used them for Valentine’s Day, you could just as easily make these for Halloween or some other fun occasion.

Candy spiders made from heart shaped Valentine's Day chocolates

What you need: 

With craft paper, scissors and tape, you can create candy spiders as a kid’s craft for Valentine’s Day or Halloween.

Craft Tools Needed: 

  • Ruler
  • Child safety scissors
  • Black markers

Supplies Needed: 

  • Heart shaped chocolate candy
  • Black construction paper
  • White construction paper
  • Transparent tape
Paper, ruler, markers, scissors, clear tape and chocolate hearts to make candy spiders

Instructions:

1. PREPARE THE LEGS FOR THE CANDY SPIDERS.

First, we’re going to start with the spider legs. Fold a piece of black construction paper in half lengthwise. Then have your child cut the paper down the center of the fold.

Child cutting black construction paper in half vertically with scissors

Next using a ruler and marker, divide your paper into three portions vertically. The center portion should be the width of your heart-shaped chocolate candies. The left and right segments should be equal in size but can be wider than the center section.

Then draw horizontal lines on the paper to mark off equally sized sections. These should be almost as tall as your chocolate candy pieces.

Ruler measuring black construction paper into equal sections to make into spider legs for a craft

Now have your child cut along the horizontal lines. DO NOT cut the vertical lines. Those will be used as a reference point for cutting the individual spider legs.

Boy cutting black construction paper to make into spider legs for a kids craft project for Halloween or Valentine's Day

Once you have all of the horizontal paper strips, the next step is to cut the spider legs. Have your child cut from the short edge of the paper to the reference line. Do this three times on each side to create four legs. You need a total of eight legs, four on each end of the horizontal paper strip.

TIP: To make the legs equal in size, first have your child make a cut from the center of the short edge to the line. This gives you two legs. Then have your child cut again from the center of each of those legs to the line to make the four legs you need.

Child cutting fringe in black construction paper to make legs for candy spiders

2. FOLD THE SPIDER LEGS.

Now fold the legs twice, once along each of the marker lines. Then fold the legs in half in the opposite direction of the first fold.

Child folding black construction paper into legs to make spiders for a kids craft project

The image below shows the folding progression in more detail.

  1. Fold down on the left and the right along the marker lines.
  2. Flip the paper over.
  3. Fold the legs down in the middle on each side to create the spider’s knee. (Do spiders even HAVE knees? You know what I mean here!)
Black construction paper legs to make a spider craft

3. MAKE THE SPIDER EYES.

Next, it’s time to make the spider’s eyes. Make a vertical fold in your white paper about a half an inch from the edge. Using scissors cut small shapes for the eyes along the fold. We made our hearts for Valentine’s Day, but you could just make ovals or a figure eight type shape.

If your child has good fine motor skills, you can have him or her do the cutting for the eyes. However, for the sake of time, I cut our heart shapes while C2 was busy folding all the legs.

Cutting small oblong hearts from white construction paper to make eyes for candy spiders

Once all the eyes are cut, have your child use a black marker to make eight dots on each one for the spider’s eyeballs.

Boy using a black marker to make dotted eyes as part of a spider craft

4. ATTACH THE EYES TO THE CHOCOLATE HEARTS.

When the eyes are finished, use transparent tape to attach a set of eyes to each chocolate candy. We put ours at the very top of the heart.

Child taping heart shaped paper onto chocolates to make candy spiders

5. ASSEMBLE THE CANDY SPIDERS.

Now you’re ready to put it all together to make your candy spiders. Place a small loop of transparent tape in the center of the legs. Put a chocolate candy heart on top of the tape and press firmly to hold the candy in place.

Child pressing heart shaped chocolates onto black construction paper to make cute candy spiders, great for Valentine's Day cards or Halloween

6. MAKE A WHOLE ARMY OF CANDY SPIDERS.

Repeat the previous steps over and over again until you’ve got all the candy spiders you need for Valentine’s Day cards or Halloween treats.

Chocolate candy spiders on a table top ready to be a Halloween treat or to make into kids Valentine's Day cards

C2 was really pleased with how his whole army of candy spiders turned out. He was playfully marching them around our dining room table. I think he also threatened to hide one on my chair to scare me later.

Chocolate candy spiders on a table top ready to be a Halloween treat or to make into kids Valentine's Day cards

7. ATTACH THE CANDY SPIDERS TO VALENTINE’S DAY CARDS.

If you’re using the candy spiders for Valentine’s Day like we did, the very last step is to attach them to your cards. We just used tape to do that. The “to/from” part on our Spider-man Valentine’s Day cards was a circle shape. This made a perfect spot to affix our candy spiders — just make sure your child signs the cards before you attach the spiders.

Boy attaching homemade candy spiders to Spiderman Valentine's Day cards

Does your child have a particular type of Valentine’s Day cards that s/he likes to give to friends? If you’ve seen any really creative ones, please comment below and share. We’re always looking for new ideas.

While you’re here, be sure to check out the free printable dinosaur treat tags I made for C2’s birthday treats a few years ago. They would totally work as Valentine’s Day cards – you could even attach a toy dinosaur.

If you enjoyed these candy spiders, please share them with your friends or pin it for later:

Candy Spiders Easy Craft for Kids using heart shaped chocolates

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About Carrie Ypma

Carrie is the chief writer, crafter and cook here at Ideas for the Home by Kenarry®. She's an optimist by nature and enjoys sharing recipes, trying new craft ideas, planning for parties and events as well as organizing and decorating. She and her husband, Kent live in Michigan. She also loves to hide away in a castle under the stairs reading to her two young boys and help guests plan vacations at Sunshine Villa at Glenbrook Resort, their short term vacation rental home in Orlando near Walt Disney World.

Whether you’re cooking, crafting or creating for your family, follow Carrie on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get inspiring ideas for your home. For home organization tips and ideas, check out her other website, Clutter Keeper or follow her on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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