Crafts promote children's creativity and fine motor skills. With the help of wool, you can let the offspring weave interesting spider webs from chestnuts, which can then be used as autumn decorations. Combine any colors and wrap the string closer together and further apart to create real spider webs.
How you can make spider webs out of chestnuts yourself
You only need a few materials for such interesting chestnut spider webs:
- Chestnuts
- Wool in any color
- Toothpicks or matches (the latter are better for smaller children as there is no risk of injury)
- Drill or awl to drill through the chestnut
For particularly large nets, you can also use shish kebab skewers.
And this is how you do it:
- This task should be carried out by an adult: Drill holes all around the chestnut at approximately the same height and at somewhat equal distances. Between 5 and 8 pieces are ideal.
- The holes should be large enough for the toothpicks or matches to just fit in. If they accidentally become too big, you can fix them with glue.
- Then insert the rods.
- And you can start weaving. Tie the end of the yarn to one of the sticks.
- Now the thread is passed around the chestnut, alternating between under a stick and sometimes over it.
- You decide for yourself how large the distances between the individual rows should be.
- If you want, you can cut the thread after a few rows and tie a new one in a different color. Then continue as before to get a multi-colored spider web.
Weave the thread tightly for large areas of color
The craft looks very pretty in several colors. If you place the individual threads close together, you will create pieces of jewelry that can be used as pendants. There are no limits to creativity. Nowadays there are not only a wide variety of colors for wool and even color combinations in a single ball, but also particularly effective ones with glitter.
Create a colorful pattern
Crafting with chestnuts for Halloween
If you make a spider web out of wool, you can do it wonderfullyUse as Halloween decorations. When designing this, start with the chestnut: Immediately after drilling and inserting the toothpicks, paint them and the sticks completely black so that everything can represent a spider. You can use googly eyes as eyes, but you can also paint some yourself.
It is best to use a white or other light color for the wool so that the net looks more authentic. Hang the Halloween decorations on the trees in the garden or on the window inside.
Cool hanging decoration with spider webs made of chestnuts for autumn
Speaking of hanging: If you attach another thread to the finished spider webs for hanging, you can also use the resulting pendants asDecoration for an autumn bouquetuse.
How about this idea: place a branchy branch in a vase and decorate it with the spider web pendants, colorful leaves and other autumnal elements!
You can find ideas with chestnuts without drillingin this article.
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