Spider Web Decorations-Waganer's 2006

If you like cool Halloween Decorations, check this out. Each year, we construct a massive spider web made of rope lights. This is a time lapse video of us putting the web together (2 hours condensed into 2 minutes). ENJOY!!!

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[Elizaw00]

Loved this, it looks fantastic! I too would like to know how hard the spider is to make and how long it would take. Great job!!!

[rwaganer]

The Spider is made up of about 600-800 black ballons. We buy the 8 inch balloons in bulk online. We fill them with a air pump until about half filled with air. We tie two balloons together in a knot, as we tie the balloon closed.(hard to explain). We then wrap two pairs of balloons together to make a four balloon combo.

[rwaganer]

More... The web is put up about 2 weeks before Halloween. But the spider is put up only for Halloween day.. when the kids get off the school bus, the spider is there... the balloons only last a day outside... so I let the neighbor kids "kill" the balloon spider the next morning.

Take care & be well, Rich

[rwaganer]

It takes about 100 balloons to make each spider leg. We wrap the balloon combos around a 1 inch pvc pipe. Our house smells like latex for a week.. because we do all this inside our house a few days before Halloween.

[braneden]

very cool. how do you get all of the light strings to hook together. Where can you by lights like these??...

[rwaganer]

The lights are regular rope lights... Christmas decoration lights.

Purchased at WalMart. I think it roughly cost me $250 in lights.. although each year I need to buy a few more because of burn outs.

My wife told me I should sell an instruction bokklet.. haha.. it was really cool when a Baltimore news helicopter came out one year a did a live shot of our house...

[kentman789]

cool i did that to my house before it took A LONG time to do and i did most of the work with my dad my sisters and my mom took out chairs and iced tea and watched us but still cool

[PenguinsXP]

Omg Carlie xD

[chibunni]

haha me and my family go every halloween to this neighborhood to see the spiderweb. its pretty awesome :D

[jkahsen]

This is great.. How many feet of lights did this take?

[chubbyies5]

lol thats aweesvome!

[IYANDIY]

yeah, that is cool, but your house is so big im jealous, so, no, actually, that is very cool, your right. ahhh jammie buggers! well done!

[IFeelHappy]

Wicked cool spider web

[lochness118]

Dude that is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!

[jexxy70]

awesome. and you all seem to have so much fun doing it. how do you get the spiderweb lit up?

[str8tup]

That is really a neat idea. I think it's great you do something like that for the kids. There are too many fuddy duddys these days. Kudos to you for doing something FUN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :0

[finch6789]

that is a LOT of work for just one day's decoration...egads.