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How to make a big hairy spider for Halloween

Do you ever get in a crafty mood? It strikes me about once a year. Usually around Christmas. This year it struck at Halloween. I was supposed to pick up plastic spiders and glow sticks to help decorate the marketing area of our office. Easy peasy. No crafting necessary. Except I went to the wrong store. I went to J o-Anne Fabrics . I thought they would have Halloween decor. And it's near my house. The Halloween stuff was pretty much gone - replaced by Christmas! As I'm wandering around the store figuring out what to do I decided I would skip the little plastic spiders and make two giant spiders instead. Two big, hairy spiders. With googly eyes. I had it pictured in my head. I would get the biggest styrofoam ball I could find, a feather boa, floral wire, felt, glue and googly eyes. And then I would recruit the teenager to help me. They came out super cute! Big, hairy and not too scary. BIG HAIRY SPIDER  makes 2 1 Large Styrofoam ball cut in half (the bre...