Halloween is just around the corner, and if you’re going to be decorating your house, you’ll definitely want a creepy crawly spider web to adorn your walkway. I’m going to make these giant spider webs to decorate the trees around my house, but they could also be used to decorate porches, fences, or they could be erected as freestanding decorations if you have some spare poles. They’re super easy to make, and all you need is a roll of regular plastic shrink wrap.
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Does it have to be shrink wrap or would stretch wrap work?
I made it this weekend with stretch wrap. I bought a roll of 4 or 5″ stretch wrap and we twisted it as we went. It’s strong enough to hold up a bag of skeleton bones that we also wrapped in stretch wrap.
I didn’t have any strong shrink wrap, so I tried making mine from 6cm wide strips of kitchen cling film. It wasn’t strong enough for the spokes, so for those I started with fishing line, then wrapped the fishing line with the cling film. The cling film was strong enough for the spiral parts, with just a bit of cellophane tape at the ends and when it got broken.