When it comes to Halloween crafts, pipe cleaners are basically the MVP. They’re bendy, easy for little hands to use, and perfect for spooky creations. While my kids love making spiders, we realized our creepy crawlies needed a home. That’s how we ended up making this pipe cleaner spiderweb craft (after making the spiders from pipe cleaners!!)—and it’s now one of our favorite Halloween decorations!
The beauty of this craft is that it’s quick, low-mess, and endlessly customizable. Whether you’re making giant webs to hang on the wall or tiny ones for your windows, kids will love twisting, bending, and shaping their webs. And if you’ve already made pipe cleaner spiders (which I highly recommend), these webs are the perfect finishing touch.
Why You’ll Love This Pipe Cleaner Spiderweb Craft
- Easy and budget-friendly – You only need pipe cleaners, which you can grab at the dollar store.
- Great for fine motor skills – Twisting and bending strengthens hand muscles.
- Customizable – Make big webs, small webs, or colorful rainbow webs.
- Halloween-perfect – A simple decoration that actually looks impressive.
- Kid-approved – Toddlers, preschoolers, and older kids can all join in.
Materials You’ll Need
- Pipe cleaners (white for a classic web, or mix in black, silver, or rainbow for fun variations)
Step-by-Step Instructions: How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Spiderweb
Step 1 – Make the Base
Start with three pipe cleaners. Lay them on top of each other in an asterisk shape (like a snowflake). cut a small piece off another pipe cleaner and wrap it around the center of the three pipe cleaner to secure. Spread out the pipe cleaners until they are equal distance apart. Now you should have six “spokes” coming out of the center.
Step 2 – Add the First Ring
Take another pipe cleaner starting at one spoke, twist it around, then move to the next spoke and twist again. Keep going all the way around until you’ve created your first “circle” of web.
Step 3 – Keep Building the Web
Use more pipe cleaners to add rings farther out, repeating the same twist-and-connect motion on each spoke. The more rings you add, the bigger and cooler your web looks. Don’t worry if your shapes aren’t perfectly even—real spiderwebs aren’t either!
As you wrap the pipe cleaners around and come to the end, simply twist another on to the end and continue. Use a pair of scissors to cut off any excess.
Step 4 – Shape and Adjust
Bend the spokes so they’re evenly spaced. Adjust your rings so they form a web pattern. Little imperfections actually make the web look more realistic.
Step 5 – Display Your Web
Your web is ready to go! Hang it from a window or wall, or attach it to string so it dangles. Bonus points if you add a pipe cleaner spider to crawl across it.
Learning Benefits
This spiderweb craft isn’t just fun; it’s secretly educational too. Kids get to:
- Practice fine motor skills by twisting and bending.
- Explore patterns and geometry while building rings.
- Use creativity to design their own unique web.
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
