Make these adorable bottle cap spiders today. This bottle cap crafts idea is great for kids of all ages and works great as a Halloween craft idea or anytime of the year that you want to make a spider craft. We love making craft spiders for Halloween at home or in the classroom!

Easy Spider Craft for Kids

Keep some plastic bottle caps out of the landfill by recycling them into this fun Halloween craft project — Recycled Bottle Cap Spiders! These can be used as spooky decorations for Halloween, or add some color for a cute project that kids will love. 

Related: More Halloween crafts for preschoolers

While these super creepy crawly spiders are some of our favorite recycled Halloween crafts, they can be made as a spider craft for anytime of the year.

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How to Make Bottle Cap Spiders

Supplies Needed To Make Bottle Cap Spiders

• Plastic bottle caps like you find on gallon milk jugs
• Black paint and paint brush for spider body
• Pipe cleaners for spider legs
• Googly eyes
• Glue (hot glue preferred but kids have more fun with school glue)

Directions To Make Spider Bottle Cap Craft

Step 1

Let the kids paint the bottle caps. My kids love anything having to do with paint. Is that just because it can be so messy?  We chose to make black spiders so we used black paint.

Step 2

Next, glue on the googly eyes. Hot glue works the best because it is neater and dries quickly. However, my kids were begging to glue the eyes on themselves so I let them put the eyes on with school glue. It just took a little longer for the glue to dry but it works just as well.

Step 3

Once the glue is dry, you are ready to put on the spider’s legs.

Step 4

You will need to cut 2 pipe cleaners in half. Each pipe cleaner will make 4 legs. Throughout this project you can talk with your children about spiders so they learn a little along the way. At this point, we talked about how spiders have 8 legs and that this is one way that you can tell they are not an insect which has only 6 legs.

Step 5

The final step is to glue the legs to the underside of the bottle cap:

1. Take your 4 pipe cleaner halves the fold them in half.  
2. Then place them in the underside of the bottle cap.  
3. Cover with hot glue. I did let my children use school glue for this on our first attempt but it took too much glue, way too long to dry, and wasn’t nearly as strong of a hold as with hot glue so stick with hot glue here if you can.

Finished Spider Craft

Now hang your spiders on a spider web and you have a great decoration for your home that your children will be proud to have made.

Bottle Cap Crafts Variation Idea

You can even adapt this idea to make a ladybug by using only 6 legs and painting the bottle cap red with black spots. <–how cute would that bottle cap idea be???

MORE SPIDER CRAFTS

• Paint a watercolor spider web with this really cool spider art project.
• Try out these dollar store Halloween crafts, you can make spider soap!
• This glowing spider lantern is really fun to make for Halloween.
• Make paper plate spiders!
• Make this simple and fun spider web craft.
• This is one of my favorite spider crafts…make a bouncing spider!
• Make an ice cream sandwich spider…yum!
• These DIY window clings are spider web window clings and are easy to make!
• Oreo spiders are fun and yummy!
• Make these easy and cute spider snacks!

More Halloween Fun From Kids Activities Blog:

• Stay safe this Halloween and light up the night to stay away from spooky things and creepy spiders with this Halloween night light.
• What goes well with creepy spiders? How about Halloween eyeball decorations?
• You’ll want to me these toilet paper roll cats right “meow”, well after you’re done making your bottle cap spiders.
• You’ll love these spooky Halloween crafts! There is even a silly spider craft! How silly.
• Use spider webs and paint to make your own haunted Halloween crafts sans the ghosts.
• Decorate your windows with this Halloween window cling craft, use plastic spiders and cotton to make it even spookier!
• Love spiders crafts? Or perhaps you want more spooky crafts? We have over 100 different crafts for you to try.
• Make Halloween arts and crafts for kids!

Did you try making these bottle cap spiders? Let us know how they turned out in the comments!