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Free Printable Spider Craft Template

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This free printable spider craft free template is a fun fall craft for kids of all ages. Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners can practice their fine motor skills and older kids can construct a spider craft as part of a science lesson. No matter how you decide to use your printable spider craft template, I hope you enjoy it!

A preview of two pages of printable spider craft template. One is colored and the other is in black and white. Both make the same cut and paste spider craft.

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This spider template comes with two different pages. One is pre-colored and the other is black and white so your little learners can color or paint their own spider.

Spiders are fascinating creatures. While they can be dangerous, some of them are downright cute! My daughter loves finding jumping spiders and watching them jump around.

This spider craft has 2 eyes to cut and paste, but did you know that spiders have up to eight eyes? Most have eight, but some have six or even fewer. Even though they have lots of eyes, spiders have fairly poor eyesight and tend to rely on other senses (feeling vibrations in their web, for example).

This spider craft printable only shows two eyes to keep the spider cute instead of spooky. Feel free to use googly eyes to add a more accurate number of eyes to your spider.

A preview of two pages of printable spider craft template. One is colored and the other is in black and white. Both make the same cut and paste spider craft.

I believe my daughter’s love of spiders have been influenced by reading Charlotte’s Web. She has it on audiobook and will listen to the entire book in a single day when she’s in the mood.

We got her a basic MP3 player (no bluetooth, no games, etc.) and a portable wired speaker so she can listen to audiobooks whenever she wants. I love that I control what books and music go on her device and she loves that she can use it all by herself.

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Table of Contents

  • Fall and Halloween Craft Templates
  • Spider craft ideas
  • Spider craft supplies needed
  • How to make a cut and paste spider
  • Spider craft template PDF file download area

Fall and Halloween Craft Templates

If you enjoy paper crafting and Halloween, you’ve come to the right place! Be sure to check out these additional free printable templates while you’re here:

  • Pumpkin templates
  • Bat templates
  • Acorn templates
  • Scarecrow coloring pages

Spider craft ideas

There are many funs ways to use this spider craft. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Have students create their spiders for fine motor practice, then display the completed spiders on your bulletin board
  • Make a cute garland
  • Use them as Halloween decorations on your door or mantle
  • Make a paper bag puppet or a stick puppet
  • Glue the finished spider to a toilet paper roll so it can stand up (see my post on sanitizing toilet paper rolls for crafts here)
  • Use a spider as a teaching aide for a math, science, or literacy lesson

This craft goes well with a story about spiders, such as Are you a Spider? You’re welcome to use these templates for your library activity or reading hour.

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Spider craft supplies needed

You don’t need much to make this simple fall craft:

  • Your free printable spider template (look for the download towards the bottom of the post. There’s a row of purple arrows pointing at the download button.)
  • Printer access
  • Paper or white cardstock
  • Child-friendly scissors
  • Glue (glue stick or a small cup of glue with a paintbrush)
  • Markers, pencils, paint, etc., if you’re using the blank version of the spider template
  • Popsicle sticks or a paper lunch bag, optional, to make a spider puppet

For an even cuter spider, use googly eyes instead of, or in addition to, the cut out eyes. 

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If you decide to make puppets, I recommend giving your child or students a little help with a hot glue gun to stick their spider to the wooden stick or paper bag. In my experience, kids want to play with their puppet right away, before glue dries, which causes the puppet to fall apart. 

How to make a cut and paste spider

The basic process is fairly simple: have your child or students cut out the spider’s body, legs, mouth, and eyes, then use the guide image to glue the pieces together. 

The curves on this spider template make it quite the fine motor challenge for little hands! Make sure to provide blunt nosed, child-sized scissors.

If you’re using the coloring page version, coloring the spider before cutting it out makes the project easier.

A preview of a partially colored orange and purple spider craft template to cut and paste

After the spider is completed, it can be glued to a stick, bag, or toilet paper roll. It can also be laminated or strung up and hung. The choice is yours!

Spider craft template PDF file download area

Both version of the printable spider craft template are in the same PDF file. Just print whichever page you need!

These printables are licensed for personal use and classroom use. This includes use with library activities and therapy clients.

These printables are NOT licensed for commercial use. You are not authorized to sell or redistribute the pages or print outs to other adults for use with their children/students. Please refer friends and colleagues to this post so they can download their own copy. 

If you agree to these terms of use, you may click below. Your download should start automatically, but you may need to authorize downloads from Dropbox if asked for permission.

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I hope you enjoy your cute printable spider craft template! be sure to check out more fall crafts and Halloween printables below:

Printables for Halloween

If you're looking for Halloween printables, you've come to the right place!

Snag your Halloween shape templates, printable games, Halloween bingo, free coloring pages, and more.

Free Printable Halloween Planner 

Plan all your spooky holiday fun with this free printable Halloween planner including a free printable Halloween party invitation!

Free Printable Halloween Theme Left or Right Worksheet

Held your child learn their left and right with this free printable worksheet.

Free Halloween Ghost Printable Templates

Make your own Halloween ghost crafts with these free Halloween ghost printable templates.

Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages for Adults

Adults need the chance to color, too! Grab detailed Halloween coloring pages for adults in this post.

Free Printable Acorn Templates

These acorn templates are perfect for crafts all season long.

Free Printable Candy Corn Templates

Candy corn is a Hallloween classic!

Free Printable Halloween Handprint Craft Templates

Make sure to print extra copies of these Halloween hand print craft pages!

Free Printable Halloween Bulletin Board Letters

These free printable Halloween bulletin board letters are perfect for classrooms and home use.

Halloween I-Spy & Graph Printables

Help your little learner practice their counting and graphing skills with these free printable Hallwoeen I Spy pages.

Free Halloween Ten Frame Printables

These free printable Halloween ten frames include correct letter tracing graphics and correct letter ormation graphics to help your litle one learn their numbers.

Free Printable Halloween Board Game for Preschoolers

Help your kids get their wiggles out with this free printable Halloween board game with printable dice and gross motor cube inserts.

9 Free Halloween Dot Marker Printables

Do a dot marker printables are no-prep and a whole lot of fun for your littles! Kids love the cute Halloween shapes and using do a dot markers helps them develop their importnat fine motor skills.

Printable Halloween Number Order Puzzles

Your little learner with squeal with delight when they see this cute cat and trio of Halloween sharks! Help your child learn to count with these free printable Halloween number order puzzles.

Printable Halloween Count and Graph Worksheets

Count and graph worksheets are a fun, no-prep way to improve your child's counting, fine motor skills, visual discrimination, and attention to detail.

Free Printable Halloween Matching Cards

These free printbale Halloween matching cards include classic matching, shadow matching, and mirror image matching versions.

These cards are great as a matching game for toddlers and preschoolers. They can also be flipped face down for a more challenging game of memory for your big kids.

Free Printable Pumpkin Theme Count and Clip Cards

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Celebrate fall with these free printable pumpkin theme count and clip cards with numbers 1-12.

Free Printable Halloween Banner

Decorate for Halloween on a budget with these free printable Happy Halloween banners! Pick from orange or purple themes to suit your decor.

Free Printable Halloween Word Search & Halloween Word Scramble

Keep your big kids busy with this set with a free pirntbale Halloween word search and a word scramble. Answer key included!

Free Printable Bat Outline Templates

These free printable bat templates are perefct for your DIY Halloween decorations. Pick from cute bats, bat outlines, and filled in bat templates.

Halloween Bingo

Halloween picture bingo is fun for the whole family! Even young children can play along because no reading is required.

Halloween Coloring Pages

These Halloween coloring pages range from cute and simple for your younger kids to more complex and a bit spooky for teens and adults.

Free Printable Fall Counting Book For Preschool & Kindergarten

Counting and learning to read are fun with this free printable fall counting book emergent reader!

19+ Free Printable Cute Halloween Witch Coloring Pages

These Halloween with coloring pages are so cute!

Pumpkin Outline Printables

These free pumpkin outline printables are perfect for crafts, decorations, and as simple coloring pages for toddlers. With pumpkin templates from 1" up to 8" wide there's a pattern for every size project!

Pumpkin Alphabet Tracing Strips for Preschool & Pre-K

Help your child learn their abc's with these printable pumpkin alphabet tracing strips. Laminate them and use them time and again!

Halloween Complete the Sequence/Extend the Pattern Printables

Learning to recognize patterns and extend sequences are necessary pre-math skills. Help your preschooler practice their patterns with these Halloween pattern printables. Bonus - they also get to practice their fine motor skills! (This one is very low cost - use coupon code "fallsale" for 30% off!)

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