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Home » Crafts » Spooky Fun Bat and Spider Magnets Halloween Craft

Spooky Fun Bat and Spider Magnets Halloween Craft

October 20, 2019 By Katie Hale 4 Comments

These bats, spiders, and pumpkins are the fun magnets you need to add to your refrigerator during the spooky season. I love decorating every part of my home for Halloween, so why not the kitchen? This tutorial is easy and needs just some bottle caps, paint, and a touch of glue to create!

This Halloween spider web jar is another great addition to your kitchen decorations Halloween!

Bat and spider fun magnets made from bottle caps on a white lantern with white background

Table of Contents

  • Fun Magnets Halloween Craft
  • What is the Best Paint to Use on Bottle Caps?
  • Where Can I Find Extra Bottle Caps?
  • Where Can I Use these Bats & Spiders for Halloween Decor?
  • Supplies Needed
  • How to Make Fun Magnets from Bottle Caps
  • Video Tutorial:
  • Step by Step Printable Tutorial:

Fun Magnets Halloween Craft

In another effort to repurpose anything I can around the house, I was able to turn simple bottle caps into this adorable little bat, spider, ghost, and pumpkin magnets! Using just a bit of glue, paint, and a few scrap pieces of paper and pipe cleaners, I was able to turn old bottle caps into an adorable decoration for Halloween.

You can use your imagination to create Halloween themed magnets like these, or even to create monster magnets, or my favorite idea, a Frankenstein magnet with green and purple paint! These would go great in a little Halloween gift bag alongside these Halloween spider lollipops, or even with my monster treat box made from egg cartons.

Fun magnets for Halloween sitting on a woven mat with candles in background

What is the Best Paint to Use on Bottle Caps?

For this project, I simply used my regular craft paint and permanent markers. Acrylic craft paints are easy to find in your craft section at any department store. They are inexpensive and dry fast for crafts like this fun magnets project.

If you don’t have paints on hand, you can also use colored permanent markers to color in the entire bottle cap and use alternate colors to create the faces as directed.

Spider magnet attached to the side of a picture frame

Where Can I Find Extra Bottle Caps?

I always seem to have bottle caps on hand in a jar on my kitchen counter. Between soda and beer bottles, we can create a nice stockpile of bottle caps over a few months. If you don’t drink soft drinks or beer in a bottle, then you may be looking for bottle caps elsewhere.

Bottle caps can be purchased in bulk bags on Amazon and in most craft stores. These are relatively inexpensive, but easy to come by if you don’t have them at home from drinks. You can also ask friends and family to save theirs for you to use.

Fun magnets made to look like spiders pumpkins bats and ghosts on a blue background

Where Can I Use these Bats & Spiders for Halloween Decor?

Of course, I have already mentioned how I use these in my kitchen on the refrigerator, but that’s not the only place they look great. I’ve added these to the sides of metal picture frames, on filing cabinets, and bulletin boards. In fact, they are the perfect little craft idea to do with kids in a classroom to use for holding their artwork up on a board to display!

As long as it is a metal surface, these will stick and look great!

Halloween fun ghost and pumpkin magnets up close on a picture frame

Supplies Needed

  • Bottle caps
  • Black cardboard
  • Paintbrush
  • Craft paint in black, orange, white, and green
  • Small craft magnets
  • Black pipe cleaners
  • Cardboard
  • Scissors
  • Hot glue gunSupplies for fun magnets made from bottle caps

How to Make Fun Magnets from Bottle Caps

Gather your supplies and set them up on your work area so everything is within reach. Before you begin, make sure any bottle caps that came from soft drinks or beer are washed and dried well.

Using your craft paint, you will paint the bottle caps on their tops, including the ridges down the sides. I chose to paint some white, some orange, and some black.

Painting bottle caps to create magnets

Let the bottle caps dry completely before moving to the next step.

Once the bottle caps are completely dry, you will begin using your black permanent marker to create faces on the white and orange bottle caps. Have fun creating ghost and pumpkin faces with different features.

Drawing faces on the bottle caps for the fun magnets

On the black bottle caps, you can use white paint or marker to create eyes for the bat and spider. You can also use pink or red markers to create a smallmouth on these if desired.

For each of the bat bottle caps, you will need to create wings. I used black card stock and drew a simple wing to cut out and then attach it with hot glue.

Gluing wings on the bat magnet

On the bottle caps that will be spiders, cut pipe cleaners into 8 small pieces then glue them in rows on either side of the cap to create spider legs.

To add the magnet, you may need to glue a small circle of cardboard on the underside/backside of the bottle cap. After it has bee glued into place, you will then place a small craft magnet and secure with glue.

Fun magnets for Halloween on a white counter with plastic skulls and lanterns

Video Tutorial:

 

Step by Step Printable Tutorial:

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Spooky Fun Bat and Spider Magnets Halloween Craft

Spooky Fun Bat and Spider Magnets Halloween Craft

Make these fun magnets for Halloween using simple paint and bottle caps! Turn these into bats, spiders, ghosts, and pumpkins in mere minutes!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 10 minutes
Additional Time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost $1

Materials

  • Bottle caps
  • Black cardboard
  • Paintbrush
  • Craft paint in black, orange, white, and green
  • Small craft magnets
  • Black pipe cleaners
  • Cardboard

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Hot glue gun

Instructions

  1. Begin by placing all of your supplies on your table so they are within easy reach; Supplies for fun magnets made from bottle caps
  2. You will begin by painting your bottle caps in white, black, and orange; Painting a bottle cap orange for a pumpkin magnet
  3. Use craft paint or permanent markers to paint the bottle caps; Painting bottle caps to create magnets
  4. Set these aside and let them dry completely; Painting a bottle cap black to create a spider magnet
  5. Once all of the bottle caps have dried, you will then create unique faces using permanent marker; Drawing faces on the bottle caps for the fun magnets
  6. Black marker works well on white and orange, and white marker on the black bottle caps for spiders and bats; Drawing a face on a black bottle cap to create a spider
  7. You can also use red or pink for mouths and ears, as well as green for stems; A completed orange pumpkin fun magnet made from bottle caps
  8. For the spiders, you will cut black pipe cleaners into small pieces and glue on the underside of the bottle cap with 4 on each side to create legs; Gluing legs on the underside of a bottle cap to create a spider
  9. On the bats, you will use the black cardboard to draw and then cut out 2 wings which you will also glue on the underside of the bottle cap; Gluing legs on the underside of a bottle cap to create a spider
  10. To attach the magnet, you will want to cut a small circle of cardboard and glue on the underside of the bottle caps; Securing a piece of cardboard on the back of the bottle cap bat fun magnet
  11. Your final step will be to secure a magnet on the cardboard using hot glue; Adding a magnet to the back of the bottle cap bat
  12. Display for Halloween on any metal surface. Completed fun magnets that look like bats spiders pumpkins and ghosts Fun magnets displayed on a frame Close up picture of a pumpkin magnet on a white lantern

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Project Type: Decorating / Category: Halloween
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Comments

  1. Marilyn Zimmerli says

    October 20, 2019 at 5:49 pm

    I have very young grandchildren, 8 and 6. All the crafts that I would like to send them to do from this site, requires a hot glue gun. They are too young to use this tool.

    Reply
    • Vanessa Beaty says

      October 20, 2019 at 8:30 pm

      You can replace them with regular craft glue.

      Reply
  2. Daphne Lewis says

    October 20, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    Wonderful ideas for Halloween! I love the bottle cap spiders.

    Reply

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