Easy DIY Giant Halloween Spider Webs

These DIY giant spider webs are easy to make, inexpensive and have a huge impact -especially outdoors! Up your web game (and save the birds!)

Well, it’s that time of year again.

It’s the time for weird looks from adults, tentative smiles (and weird looks) from children, and threatening letters in the mailbox from the HOA.

Yep, Halloween is here (been here since August to be honest), and as usual, the community and the internet are divided on the timing.

“Halloween is three months away!!” shrieks one on social media.

“Finally! I’ve been waiting all year for this!” proclaims another.

Hey, we started LATE this year because of our Turkey trip! Last year the frights started soon after the last firework fell back to earth on Independence Day.

And to be fair, our HOA board is completely new. Gone are the power-mad monsters whose reign of terror resulted in threatening letters by them and legal proceedings by us.

But once bitten, twice shy I suppose.

The bloom is off the rose for early Halloween decorating in the front yard. Who needs the hassle! But what Karen can’t see, Karen can’t report, so Halloween is on like Donkey Kong in the back yard, and we couldn’t be happier about it!

Besides, with our back yard on full display from the family room, my babes and I get to enjoy our Halloween creations all day and night, every day and night! When they were out front, we practically never saw them!

So let me show you what I’m working on in our back yard. It’s a work in progress, but one of the main components are giant spiders webs that are surprisingly easy to make, inexpensive, and have a huge impact.

Giant spider webs VIDEO Tutorial

Watch our short and fun video below for an overview of our giant webs before you read the post.

DIY Giant Spider Webs

I don’t know who first figured out that industrial beef netting would make great spider webs, but kudos to that Halloween visionary!

The beef netting comes as long tubes of stretchy material. When the tube is folded flat, it’s about 3 feet across or double that when sliced open. If this stuff is actually used for beef, I’m guessing the whole steer (sans legs) could easily fit inside.

Anyway, you can cut the tube first or last, it doesn’t matter. For mine, I cut it open after making my razor cuts.

Working on a craft cutting mat (a large cutting board would also work), I used a razor blade to make cuts of varying sizes and orientations all over the netting.

The more you cut, the more web-like it’ll look when stretched.

After cutting down the long side to open the tube, I took it outside for setup. Our palms are perfect to grab the stretchy netting.

Next I pulled out the bottom and staked it in various places to give a web effect.

I repeated this on the other tree and also stretched one between the trees.

From here, you can decorate to your heart’s content. I added a couple of brutes to keep things in order.

Next I threw in some spiders and solar lights to make everything glow at night.

And across the yard…

I also made these webs last year, but I hadn’t perfected my technique. When you don’t cut enough slits into the netting, your spider webs will look like this:

Fortunately, once the web is taught, it’s easy work snipping with scissors to cut new holes and make it look like this:

This year I went even more wild with the razor. I think it looks way better.

Last year the spiders got a little out of control. I barely escaped with my life!