The Spider Race - A Halloween Party Game for Kids

Directions

1. Cover your painting surface and paint the coffee cream tops black and let dry
2. Open the lid and glue 4 pipe cleaner pieces to each side
3. Close the lids and add the Pom-Pom heads with wiggle eyes
4. Cut a piece of the paper straw and glue it to the top of the lid
5. If you're worried about the glue coming off during race after race, then you're my kind of person. I just can't help myself from thinking that a classroom of 30 little angels might tend to be a little rough for these cute spiders. In case of a spider emergency, have some super strong black duct tape ready to tape that straw back on
6. When you are ready to play, tie one end of each  piece of yarn to something low to the ground, in the room or in the yard - Outside, I used the bottom poel of our soccer net to tie the yarn onto
7. String the other side of the yarn through the straw on the spider
8. You can tie the other side of the string onto something taller, or just have the kids hold the other end of the string.
9. The idea is one end of the string is elevated so the spider has a slope to race down
10. Pull the spiders to the starting position, and when you're ready say go!
11. Let the spiders go, and The spiders are off!
12. My one rule in this game was that my kids could not push the spiders.
13. Kids can use gravity to help by lifting the yarn up to the starting point or get creative in another way to get their spiders to the finish line first