Here is a quick craft that would be cute on a windowsill, table or part of a front porch display for Halloween. (It was hard to get a good photo, black doesn't show up well.)
I started out with just an empty glass jar, like the ones spaghetti sauce comes in. I ran it through the dishwasher to make sure there was no greasy residue left on the glass. I wanted the paint to adhere well. Next I drew a spider web on a piece of copy paper that I had cut down to fit the jar and taped it to the inside with the web facing out. Using my hot glue gun I traced over the lines of the web and let it cool. I used my hot glue gun with a fine tip.
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| empty jar |
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| Spidy on the jar |
Next I painted the entire jar, including the lid, black. I just happened to have chalkboard paint handy, but I am sure any black acrylic paint would work. I thought that since the chalkboard paint is a little thicker I wouldn't need more than one coat of paint. Some areas I did end up giving a second coat of paint.
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| Spooky Lantern at night |
But didn't completely cover the jar with a heavy coat of paint. I left some areas thinner to allow the light to show through.
When the paint was dry I used my hot glue gun to adhere the fuzzy spider, that I bought at The Dollar Store, to the lantern making sure not to glue the lid so I could insert a battery operated tea light inside.
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