spooky crafts
Halloween Activities and Projects
By Danielle Hoguet
Creepy Crawly Spider Bracelet
Fold a piece of black construction paper in half and place the child's
fingers (midway through palm) along the folded edge. With white crayon trace the
fingers (no thumbs) and with scissors cut out the outline. Unfold the spider and
flip it over before curling the legs around a pencil. Use a 1" strip of black
construction paper and tape to make a bracelet. Glue it to the underside of the
spider. Decorate with wiggle eyes and a yellow construction paper diamond as
shown.
Coffee Filter Vampire Bats
Paint a miniature wooden clothespin with black acrylic paint. Cut a basket
type coffee filter in half. Paint one half with purple watercolor and the other
with black watercolor. Once dry, put the purple wing on top of the black wing
and pinch in towards the middle of the straight edge. Clamp with the clothespin
and secure with glue. Use scissors to cut half circles out of the curved side of
the wings like a bat. Decorate with wiggle eyes and white construction paper
triangles for fangs.
Paper Bag Pumpkin
Use orange acrylic to paint the outside of a brown paper lunch bag and green
acrylic for the inside, top portion. Paint a second coat of orange but this
time, paint the outside, top portion green. Once dry, use scissors to fringe the
top green portion in 1/2" strips, fill the bag with crumpled newspaper and tie
the top with 6-12" strands of green raffia. Cut a 1 1/2" wide strip of brown
construction paper, roll it into a tube and stick in the top of the bag.
Glue Ghosts
Place a piece of wax paper on a flat surface. Squeeze white school glue in
the shape of a ghost and add wiggle eyes. Decorate your ghost with felt,
buttons, mini pom-poms, or whatever you like. Let dry overnight before peeling
off of the wax paper.
Paper Plate Jack-O'-Lantern
Paint the underside of a paper plate with orange acrylic paint and let dry.
Using scissors, you can flatten out the bottom of the pumpkin and cut a dip in
the top. Cut eyes, nose and mouth (missing teeth) out of yellow craft foam and
use craft glue to attach. Cut oval-shaped leaves from green craft foam and glue
them to the back of the top. Cut a rectangular stem from brown craft foam and
glue that on the back between the stems.
Yummy Mummy Treat Cups
Using scissors, cut strips out of an old white t-shirt. Run a glue stick on
the back of each strip and wrap one at a time around a bathroom-sized paper or
plastic cup, starting at the bottom. Press in place before adding another layer.
Once the cup is completely mummified, glue on wiggle eyes and cut a bow out of
any Halloween colored felt. It can be glued as a hair bow for girls or a bowtie
for boys.
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