Giant Spider Halloween Prop

This instructable is based on a prop I made in 2007 for decorating my home for Halloween.  It isn't as well documented as I would like in photos, but at the time I never even thought that I might like to make a tutorial in the future.  Hopefully some sketches combined with my text and the few photos I do have will be clear enough for people to follow my instructions and make a spider of their own.  It really is a great prop and it gets a wonderful reaction from the trick or treaters!

Step 1: Materials and tools

These are the materials I used to create my spider.  Feel free to improvise with whatever you have if you don't have exactly what I have listed.

Upholstery foam (I used 1" thick sheets)
Copper Wire
Tape (any kind that will stick properly to the wire)
Hot glue
Fake fur
Liquid latex
Acrylic paint
Glass pebbles (the kind usually used to fill decorative vases)
Thread

Tools needed:

Scissors (or whatever tool you prefer to use to sculpt the foam)
Wire cutters, if your scissors aren't up to the task of cutting the wire
Hot glue gun
Sewing needles
Paint brushes (both the normal kind and the foam kind)
Stir sticks (or something else you can use to mix paint)

Comments

[jholder2]

This is so cool, should build it and scare the crap out of my sister!!

[komecake]

OH GOD WHY??!?!?! O_____O

[moGuyver]

This spider really stands out from the other giant spiders. Great detail! 5/5.

[Una]

Yeah that's creepy. Good job. Good instructable too by the way. I usually need lots of pictures, yours was super easy for me to follow. thanks

[zombiefire]

awesome

[kcli]

I definitely want to add this to next year's haunt (maybe with some baby dolls wrapped in his net). 

Thanks for the detail and you got my vote!

[johnshepperd]

 awsome! im probably going to make an army of spiders for my front lawn thanks 10 stars!

[cowscankill]

That looks really good! I like how it is still poseable. Maybe addmagents to the deet so it can stick to metal walls and things?