When I was a little girl, I loved to sit and make various holiday crafts. Now that I am a mother, I share my love for crafting with my daughter. Every holiday season, we take time out of our busy schedules to work on some new holiday craft projects.
When it comes to crafting with your children, I think it’s important to take photographs of your crafting session. After they become adults, you can dig out these photographs and reminisce about the fun time that you spent together.
If you are looking to build some crafting memories with your own children this Halloween season, consider making one of these quick and easy projects.
Pumpkin Walnut Shell Magnet
empty and clean walnut shell halves
scrap of brown chenille stem measuring 1/2″ in length
orange acrylic paint and paint brush
scrap of cardboard
1″ piece of magnet
all-purpose white craft glue
child safety scissors
Paint the halved walnut shell orange with acrylic paint; let dry. Lay walnut shell down on a scrap piece of cardboard (or poster board); trace around it. Cut out this ‘oval’ shape and set aside. Glue the chenille stem so it looks like the pumpkin stem to the top of the walnut shell. Glue the cardboard to the back of the walnut shell and let dry. Attach the magnet to the cardboard.
Lollipop Ghosts
1 sheet of white felt, cut into 5″ squares
1 lollipop
2 (1/8″ diameter) wiggle eyes
6″ piece of 1/8″ wide black satin ribbon
scrap of black felt, to make ghost’s mouth
white tacky glue
child safety scissors
*optional* substitute an old white cotton T-shirt for the white felt
Place the lollipop in the center of your felt square. Fold felt over; secure it shut with the black satin ribbon by tying a bow. Glue 2 tiny wiggle eyes on the face. Using black felt, cut out a tiny circle or oval measuring approximately 3/8″ in diameter to use for the ghost’s mouth. Glue mouth on below ghost’s eyes and your done!
Ghost Foam Magnet
1 ghost pattern
1 sheet of white foam
1 piece black foam scrap
2 (1/8″ diameter) wiggle eyes
1 magnet
white tacky glue
child safety scissors
You can free-hand your own ghost pattern. Place your ghost pattern on top of the white foam; trace around it. Cut out your ghost. Using a scrap of black foam, cut out a small mouth (round or oval) measuring 1/4″ in diameter. Glue your 2 wiggle eyes onto the ghost’s face along with the black mouth. Turn ghost over; glue on a piece of magnet. Let dry.
Ghost Ornament
1 (3 inch diameter) Styrofoam ball
1 (8 inch square) of white cotton fabric
1 piece of black felt
1 (4 inch) piece of black satin ribbon, hanging cord
1 small straight pin (used in sewing)
1 (6 inch) piece of black satin ribbon
white tacky glue
child safety scissors
Center the ball on the square of white fabric; wrap fabric around the ball. Tie fabric shut by using the 6″ piece of satin ribbon and make a bow. (the ball is the ghost’s head). Tie the 4″ piece of satin ribbon into a loop with a knot. Using the straight pin, push it through the knot and attach it to the top of your ghost’s head. Add a small dot of glue to hold it into place. Using the black felt, cut out the 2 eyes and a mouth and glue onto the head. Let dry. These look cute hanging from trees!
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Good crafts to do with 1-4 year olds in vacation bible school?I need to plan some arts/crafts and games to do with our vacation bible school toddlers. They are ages 20 months- 4 years. I really want to do something fun and creative that the parents can take home to put up or frame.. Any ideas? Thanks!
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whoa!!it looks like a PICTURE!
ur an amazing painter!:D
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Excellent work. Pleasure to watch. Perfect music
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paper plate mask.. tell them to make the scariest mask! how cute!
Or paper plate spiders!! you can have them color the plates and then get those wire furry sticks and staple/glue as legs… poke a hole at the top.. and tie a string so they can hang it from the ceilings!
You can go to the dollar store and buy construction paper for only $2.00. You can buy a Holloween Craft book for $2.00. Then have them trace the holloween ghosts, pumpkins, witches, gobblens, frankinsteins, dracula's and others. Then you can hang them on your outside doors, on the inside walls. Hang them up in their rooms. It will be fun and even your 3 year old can do it. It isn't that expensive its pretty cheap. As long as you go to Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, and Walmart is a little more expensive but its not too bad if there isn't a Dollar Store in your area!
I wish you the best with both of your kids! Have fun and let us know how it turns out!
Great talent Der Mann.
You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.
Very nice!!
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/halloween/pencils.shtml
hope this helped
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/halloween/spiders.shtml
i work at the boys and girls club and these are what the kids enjoy doing
Nice work, you did pretty good.
Incredible! He looks so life like. Just amazing…and what a beautiful subject
Brilliant Willy, Just Brilliant =D
Invitation Wording: A card you make on your own on Greetings Workshop, with a Jack-o-lantern on the front saying "You're Invited to a Spoooky Celebration!". Then, on the inside, in the font Chiller, write the date, time, etc. on one inside page and put a witch or a black cat on the other inside page. Put another Halloween-y picture on the back.
Crafts: If it's a smaller party, you can have pumpkin-carving, but if it's a bigger party, you obviously can't, so buy the really small baby pumpkins and have them each paint one. Also, buy Halloween cookie cutters and bake a bunch of sugar cookies with them, then have the kids each decorate a cookie or two.
Games: You can have a candy hunt, as long as you have a lot of candy and hide them in easy-to-find places. Make sure you have extra candy in case one kid starts crying because his friend got one more piece than him
. You can also have charades, dancing, and the other classics, but a costume contest isn't a good idea for their ages because the kids are little and will cry if they don't win.
Snacks: You need to have lots of orange, green and black things, but be sure to have candy corn! That is a MUST. And in Halloween-themed bowls.
For Music: There's a CD called Drew's Party Halloween Favorites or something, but if you can't find that one, there are many other Halloween CDs at Party City and Halloween USA and all that.
Tell them on the invitation to dress up, and make SURE you and your kids dress up too!
1. Take a roll of toilet paper, cover it in orange felt, stick a piece of green felt in the middle, and viola, a pumpkin.
2. have them trace their hands in black construction paper. Then, cut them out and put them on a upside down triangle of paper. Makes a bat.
Hey Ashley,
You could do things like:
Hang an old scary looking broom you might have in the garage from the ceiling with fish wire so that it looks like a witch broom flying around.
You could make all sorts of your own cutouts with the construction paper you already have.
Bats – Hang them the same way.
Witch hats
Black cats
Pumpkins
Devil horns
Use some empty toilet paper rolls, paint them and glue pipe cleaners on as legs. Put a head on with tentacles and set them around tables like spiders. If you have to, use the actual toilet paper from the roll for something creative as well.
Use some white sheets, put it over some type of head (A ball, stuffing, a pillow, etc.) Tie your yarn around it and hang from ceiling like ghosts. You could either draw scary faces on the sheet (Head part) or attach cut outs from the construction paper to not ruin the sheet.
As I'm typing, I'm looking around my house and finding everyday items that I can use/turn into a Halloween, Christmas or any type of decoration. Just be creative with what you have at home already. No cost!
Just think Halloween. For food/snacks/drinks, Make a big clear bowl of red Kool-Aid and label it as Boo punch or witches brew. Chips and salsa (Cheap) Label it chipped skull bowl. Chips and guacamole – Frankensteins filling, Chicken wings (Big bag for cheap) Label them bat wings and so on. Make these fun labels with you construction paper and other stuff and place them next to the item like place cards.
If all else fails, go to the dollar or .99 cent store to help you out. And order a bunch of cheese pizza's. Hey, you could even label the pizza as Piece-a-Skin as in the cheese being the skin (Piece of skin).
For a game, buy a bag of pumpkin seeds (Way cheap) Put them in a clear jar and have everyone write down their name and guess how many are in the jar on a piece of paper. The winner or closest to it gets a prize (From the dollar/.99 cent store). Oh, don't forget to count them first yourself! Ha!
I am thinking of all of this stuff on my own just sitting here typing.
I know you can do it, just put your mind to it.
Just remember Ashley, it's all in fun anyway. Just be silly, creative and just have fun, that's what it's all about.
Good luck!
here is a web site…it DOES have some kids crafts but its kinda fun and you can make things look better/spookier…i made the haunted mansion yesterday and you can make a whole village with the ghosts and trees….give it a try!!
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10282
Have fun! lol
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfeature/halloween_ms_crafts/