Halloween: Web Napkins

Transform a napkin into something for special Halloween dinners.  This would also be fun on a table cloth.

Materials

• Cloth napkins
• Embroidery floss
• Needle
• Threader
• Thimble
• Scissors
• Beads (optional)
• Sewing marker
• Paper & a pencil

Directions

• Have an adult iron your napkins.

• Practise drawing webs on a piece of paper.  With a sewing marker, draw you web lightly on your napkin.

• Cut a length of embroidery floss.

• Tie a knot in one end.  (An adult might need to help with this part, particularly if you are trying to make a double knot.)

• Thread your needle.  For children (adults too!) using a threader may be helpful.

• Start at the centre and make straight spokes going out, using a basic “up and down” stitch.

• Make lines in between the spokes to join the web together.  Or if your child is older,  they could try a “U” shape to join together the spokes.  Take off your needle and knot the end, trimming off the excess.

• Should you like, add a bead or two and make it into a spider with the thread as legs as shown.

Purpose

• Developing one’s fine motor skills with sewing.

Safety Notes

• Exercise care with a needle and scissors, with adult supervision.