3D paper spiders Craft a bunch of not-so-scary spiders with colorful construction paper, pipe cleaners and pony beads. No black widows here! Get the tutorial at Arty Crafty Kids.

Gene Shull works like Houdini, creating Halloween-style magic with bits of moss, broken tree limbs, craft foam and black pipe-cleaners.In the blink of an eye, he transforms it all into a cobweb ...

One time, a child threw a pipe-cleaner spider at me that they'd made in a craft session. I suffer with a little arachnophobia and, amid the screaming, I almost killed us all.