As the fall season brings festive holidays, kids can make decorations and keep organized with these crafts at the library.
Pipe Cleaner Spiders
During this decorative time of year, kids will enjoy creating these easy-to-make itsy bitsy spiders. Hang them in a window, wear them as rings, or place them somewhere frightening fun!
What you'll need:
- Pipe cleaners - black, brown or any color you like
- Pom poms - same colors as above
- Wiggly eyes
- Glue
- Scissors
Bunch four pieces of pipe cleaner and twist together in the middle, forming four "legs" on each side. Thread a piece of pipe cleaner through a pom pom and twist it around the middle. Separate and bend the legs. You can also bend a small piece at the bottom to form "feet." Stick on wiggly eyes with glitter glue.
DIY Back to School Pencil Pouch
By Tenzin Kalsang
Start the school year off by decorating a case for your pencils, pens, and other school supplies. Personalized school bags and pencil pouches are perfect and cuter than anything you can buy!
Start by placing the cardboard inside the pouch to prevent the ink from transferring through to the back. Just have them draw what is in their imagination! Another fun idea would be to let children choose their favorite book cover illustration as inspiration. The possibilities are endless!
Blank pencil cases were provided by New Lots Library.
Check out more spooky activities at Monster Mash Blast at Crown Heights Library or the Halloween Photoshoot at Jamaica Bay Library!
Paper crafts for Day of the Dead written by Randel McGee
"Explains the significance of the Day of the Dead celebration and how to make crafts out of paper"
The Halloween Book written by Franklin Watts
"Have a fantastic Halloween with this fun and informative book filled with Halloween facts and activities to celebrate this spooky festival. The Halloween Book brings together lots of ideas for Halloween costumes, crafts, recipes and games, along with poems and spine-tingling ghost stories. It also takes a look at Halloween traditions around the world."
The Not-so Itty-bitty spiders written by Amy Stadelmann
"Beatrix is a witch, but her twin sister Olive is not, and when Beatrix plays one trick too many on Olive and their classmate Eddie the two decide to get back at her with a bucket of garden spiders--but when the spiders get into a growing potion and turn into giant spiders the three children have to work together to save their town."
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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