String-and-Glue Spiderwebs
originally from the book A World of Things To Do

Things you will need:

• Yardstick
• Ball of thick white yarn
• White household glue
• Water
• Old plastic bowl or other container
• Paintbrushes
• Scissors
• Glow-in-the-dark paint
• Waxed paper

1) Spread waxed paper over your work surface.

2) For each web, cut 3 pieces of yarn 2 feet long, and one piece 6 feet long.

3) In the bowl, mix 1 tablespoon of glue with 1 tablespoon of water.

4) Soak the shorter pieces of yarn In the glue mixture and arrange them like spokes on the waxed paper.

5) Soak the longer piece of yarn in the glue mixture and spiral it out from the center of the spokes in a web pattern.

6) Let the web dry. Paint it with the glow-in-the-dark paint.

7) After the paint dries, turn the paper over and carefully peel it off the web.

8) Hang the web anywhere you like.