Spider

I started with a blown up balloonI made a mixture of flour and water with a little Modge Podge mixed in. I tore strips of typing paper, dipped the strips into the flour mixture and covered the ballon. Hung it to let it dry and repeated the process 2 times. This takes several days to do, so start ahead of time on this project! After all the layers were done, I formed the "fangs" with chicken wire and attached them to the balloon with duct tape, and did paper mache over the fangs and then covered the entire piece (body & fangs) two more times with paper mache... Let dry completely before painting!

I used black gloss spray paint for the spider itself and red puff paint for the hourglass. I wasn't sure what to do with the legs, so I used pipe cleaners inserted into holes I made into the paper mache. I wish I had thought the legs through a little better, but in the dark, it looked great anyway!