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Halloween Craft Projects - 6 Easy Kids Crafts
Easy Kids Crafts For Halloween:
Submitted By: Susanne
Myers
Are your kids excited about Halloween yet? We don’t have a day go by where
my daughter doesn’t ask me if it’s time to go trick-or-treating yet. Keep
them busy while they wait with these easy kids craft ideas you can do together.
Ghost Hand Puppet
Kids love playing with puppets and there’s hardly an easier puppet to make
than a ghost. All you need is a white paper towel, or a white handkerchief, a
rubber band and a black marker.
Ask your child to spread out her thumb and pinky, but keep the 3 other fingers
together. Drape the paper towel over her hand and secure the rubber band around
the three fingers. This will be the ghost’s head; the thumb and pinkie form
the arms. Draw eyes and a mouth on the paper towel and the little ghost puppet
is finished.
Ghost Lollipops
Dress up the lollipops you are giving away for Halloween by wrapping a white
tissue or small piece of fabric over them. Secure it with a piece of string or a
rubber band. Take a black marker and draw eyes and a round mouth on the
ghost’s face.
Spider Webs
What would Halloween be without spiders and spider webs? Make these cute little
spider webs with the kids and hang them in the window. All you need are 3 craft
or clean popsicle sticks and some white or black yarn. Take two of the craft
sticks and glue them together to form a cross. Glue the 3rd one right in the
middle, forming a star shape. Tie one end of the yarn around one of the craft
sticks in the center. Start weaving it over one craft stick and under the other.
Keep going around, forming your spider web. Make sure you leave at least 1/4th
inch of the craft sticks sticking out and secure the loose end by tying it to
one of the craft sticks. Glue a small plastic spider in the center and hang your
spider web up.
Witch Broom Pencil
Witch broom pencils make a cute Halloween gift that doesn’t involve candy. You
can turn any pencil into a witch’s broom with a handful of household items.
All you need is a regular pencil, some small twigs out of the yard, some string
and a little glue.
Break the twigs into equal lengths pieces and line them up around the
unsharpened end of a pencil. Make it look like an old fashioned broom. Secure
the wigs with string, and then apply a thick layer of glue to keep it all in
place.
Cauldron Candy Dish
To make this cute cauldron candy dish, start with an empty round plastic
container (like a cool-whip container). Clean it, dry it, and then paint it
black. Paint three small wooden balls black as well. After the paint is dry,
glue them to the bottom of your plastic container. Add a handle made out of wire
if you’d like and your candy dish cauldron is done. Just add some of your
favorite Halloween candy.
Pumpkin Painting
Carving funny or scary faces into a pumpkin is a lot of fun, but it also gets
quite messy and small kids can’t really do much since there’s a knife
involved. Buy a few small pumpkins instead, or in addition to the big carving
pumpkin. Use permanent pens or acrylic paint to draw funny faces on your
mini-pumpkins.
About the Author:
Would you like to quickly make creative Halloween costumes that you and your
children will be proud of -- for a fraction of the price of store-bought?
Susanne Myers has co-authored a book to show you how -- no sewing involved.
Visit http://www.ILoveHalloweenCostumes.com
to learn more.
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Myers
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