Halloween Crafts – Spooky Bushes
Place this cute little ghost on your bushes. Fold a white bed sheet in half. In between the fold, place some newspapers. Using black craft paint or black permanent markers, draw a spooky ghost face on the front of the sheet. You can opt to make a funny, scary, or whimsical face. Now drape this sheet over the bushes. Pin it using clothes pins. This will make it tight enough. Now there is a ghost sitting in the bushes.
Halloween Crafts – Scary Pumpkin Windows
Scary Pumpkin Windows
Get square pieces of orange construction sheets. Now let the kids draw some scary pumpkin faces on them. Next, cut out these faces. Let the paper be square because as you may want to decorate the windows with this. Tape this to your windows and illuminate from behind using a lamp. Enjoy the sight of scary windows, the Halloween way!
Halloween Crafts – Halloween Ornaments with Fun Foam
Fun foam is among the essential craft items, especially among the kids. This Halloween, collect some chunks of fun foam mainly in Halloween colors of black, orange, green and white. Now, draw some ovals and circles on the fun foam. With safety scissors let your child cut them out.
While they are cutting out the base ovals and circles, you can cut shapes from the remaining pieces of fun foam. Cut out patterns like witches, scary cats, bats, ghosts, etc. These shapes can easily be found on the internet. Now stick the varied shapes you just cut on the ovals & circles your child cut earlier. Finally, punch a hole on the top. Put a string in the hole and hang your child’s Halloween ornaments wherever you wish in the house!
Here are the Halloween craft pattern templates we have on our site that you can use for this craft.
Halloween Crafts – Transparent Ghosts
Transparent Ghosts
Cut out the shape of the ghost from 2 sheets of wax paper. Now, cut out its eyes, a ghoulish mouth and other effects if you wish to, using construction paper. Next, pick out one of the wax paper ghosts. Lay it on the top of a newspaper. Place its eyes & mouth in the right place. Now sprinkle the remaining portions with glitter. Further, carefully place the remaining wax paper ply in line with the bottom edge of the prior (that is placed on the newspaper). Slowly overlap the lower wax paper ghost and further place a sheet of newspaper on them. Heat the iron at medium level. Run it over the ghost in order to meld the two wax paper ghosts. Finally, shred the extra sparkles from the ghost’s body, and attach a string to the same. Hang this anywhere you feel like and have spooky fun!
So, with a little know-how you can make wonderful ghost crafts to make your Halloween special!
Halloween Crafts – Singing Ghosts
Singing Ghosts
You can make scary balloon ghosts to hand outside the house and add some spookiness to your Halloween. Take 2 white plastic bags. These are easily available at the near by grocery stores or Wal-Mart. Now cut the handles and the written part of these plastic bags. Now start shredding the bottom of the plastic bags leaving away the seams. Try to make 1 inch shreds. Beware that the cuts are around 1 inch away from the seams. Now blow up your balloon & make a knot so that it remains inflated. Along with the top knot, now tape 1 bag to the backside of the balloon & 1 bag towards the front. Preferably use black-duct tape s it has quite good grip. Now, draw a ghost face. Tie a string surrounding the knot. The ghost is ready to hang! It can be even more entertaining if you tie some bells at the bottom shreds of the ghost. Now you would hear it haunting in the breeze!
Halloween Crafts – Tissue Ghosts
Tissue Ghost
This is perhaps the writer’s favorite. Take a piece of Kleenex. Gather it together such that it forms a bulb at the top and the bottom should be splaying out. Shaped almost like a ghost! Now, with a rubber band twist and tie to maintain the shape of the bulb. You can also use a garbage bag for the same. This becomes the ghost’s head. So just tie it as tight as possible! Now grab on a black magic marker to dot in the eyes, nose and mouth.
The Kleenex ghost is ready to spook around. You can make loads of these and hang around the house. This would impress your friends & family and friends. You would be able to boast as a Halloween crafts pro!
Halloween Crafts – Halloween Paper Crafts For Kids
Halloween Paper Crafts For Kids
Halloween is all about having fun with your friends and family. Among the best parts of Halloween are decorating the house with crafts. And when these crafts are all hand made, the more the merrier! Coming to its expenditure part, the amazing fact is that this sort of craft work can easily be done using anything you get your hands an at home. Using old paper or simple construction paper many decorative can be made to make your Halloween special and spooky.
Now I’m sure, you all must be looking for some free Halloween crafts that are easy enough for you to follow! Halloween paper crafts are real fun for kids. Try cutting out a ghost from white paper or make a detailed pumpkin window peek! The idea is to enjoy what ever you make! This way you would be able to use all your creativity.
Well, the internet is a hub for several ideas. Once you have the ideas and tips and tricks, you can use your innovative skills to make the ideas even more interesting. Creativity and imagination is the key to make your decorations as exclusive and attractive and spooky as you wish to. Here are a few ideas to get started:
1. Pumpkin Lantern
Take some sheets of construction paper and gather the basic craft equipment like scissors and glue.
Fold the construction sheet in to half from the shorter side.
Now, with a ruler, measure 2 inches towards inside from the open edge. Next, draw a line 18 inch long across the paper. Father, 1 inch apart between the paper’s fold and the 18 inch line draw lines.
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With the scissors, cut the shorter lines from the paper’s folded edge and stop at the line.
Your strips are ready. Now, unfold the paper. Bend it in to a cylinder and paste together the sides.
To make the handle of the lantern, cut 1 ½ inch by 12 inch strip using green construction paper.
Forming an arc, staple the paper from top of the lantern.
Now, make the pumpkin’s eyes, mouth, and nose with the help of construction papers of various shades. Use your imagination and choose from many colors available like black, yellow, red, etc. Display the lantern with pride!
2. Spider’s Web
Hunt for a cob web’s image. For this you can surf through internet, look into the magazines or borrow from a friend. Isn’t the spider’s web to intricate and fascinating?
For this you must have lot of black construction paper.
Now with regular white glue, mimic the web from your imagination or form the image you have got.
We advise you to start with the intersecting lines. Once you catch on the flow move to the curved ones between the intersections.
Now, sprinkle gold glitter on the web hence made and let it dry overnight.
With little imagination and patience, this comes out to be a great piece of art!
Halloween Crafts – Paper Plate Mask
Paper Plate Mask
Halloween season is all about children. Bring a smile to your child’s face with a spooky mask in tandem with his disguise. Halloween crafts are indeed fun to make and the best part is that these can be made using simple and easily found material. For instance, try making paper plate masks this time.
Just a little thoughtfulness, creativity, imagination and craft can help you make all sorts of masks, you can think of with way to easy material. This includes the following:
1. White paper plates
2. Construction paper
3. Paint
4. Crayons
5. Scissors
6. Stapler
7. Glue
8. Markers
9. Tinkers like small pom poms (optional)
10. Elastic or string
Envision your child like any animal such as tiger, rat, cat, bat, etc. Then go ahead with an easy mask.
Given below are the tips to make rabbit and pumpkin masks out of paper plates.
1. Rabbit Mask
Take two white paper plates, a pink construction paper, and a small pink pom pom.
To make its ears, color one paper plate from inside or just glue the pink construction sheet at the inside.
Cut it in to two halves.
Now take another paper plate to make the face. Cut a ¼” wedge from one side. This is where the child’s mouth would come.
Further, staple the ears at the top of plate or the mask that is the part opposite to the wedge. Watch that you place the straight edges facing inside.
Now, cut two eyes on the face. Place these just below the rabbit ears.
For either paint one, or stick on the small pink pom pom right under the eyes. Finally, decorate the mask with crayons and markers. Make whiskers and color just as per your imagination.
To wear the mask, either staple an apt piece of elastic on both sides of the mask. Or you may choose to punch in holes on either sides and tie a string through them.
2. Pumpkin Mask
Draw a scary pumpkin face on the outer side on the paper plate. Cut the eyes, mouth and nose with the help of the scissors.
Now color the whole think orange with decorations of your choice.
Finally, make it wearable with an elastic staple on either sides of the mask, or punching holes and fastening a string through them.
Try thinking “out of the box” and let your creative senses go wild. You shall numerous options to work on in this art!
Happy Halloween!
Halloween Crafts – Tombstone
Tombstones
These can be made in a couple of ways. You could get some wood and use a jigsaw to cut them into the shape of a rounded tombstone. Then get some black and gray paint to paint them. Use white or black paint – depending on which you used to paint: white for black background and black for gray background – and write funny sayings about your family.
You can also just put your family’s individual names and R.I.P. (rest in peace) or something like that. Use your imagination and be creative. To insert them in the ground, all you need to do is get long screws and screw them into the bottom of the tombstone leaving a large part of it sticking out. Then they can go into the ground and not fall over.
You can also do the same thing with heavy duty cardboard and make them the same way. If you use heavy duty cardboard, make sure you spray them with a sealant to keep them from collapsing in wet weather.
To put in the ground, all you need to do is cut a wire hanger into pieces and insert into the cardboard leaving a portion of the wire sticking out. Then push them into the ground to secure.
You can also experiment around with other materials like Styrofoam, moldable plastic, and anything else you think might work. It’s all up to you since these are easy and fun to have in the yard.
Some ways to make your tombstones look like they are in a graveyard are easily made with things you can find around the yard. Of course, you could make a small mound of dirt in front of the tombstone. You can also use some mulch spread out over a large black trash bag which will provide a nice, musty smell to go along with the Halloween sights and sounds.
Lighting of your tombstones can make a big difference. You want passers-by to see your graveyard, so put out a few lights to highlight your creativity. Insert a directional light fixture (with a blue light) 8 -12 inches in front of the tombstone. Cover the back of the light fixture with aluminum foil so that it won’t reflect back on the viewers. The aluminum foil is spray painted brown and covered with mulch to hide the fixture.
Adorn the grave with dead flowers, fake hands, spiders, monster masks on wig heads or other spooky items. Be sure to have some spider webs around the tombstones. You can buy these in spray form at many discount stores. In fact, dead flowers can really make your “graveyard” special, so be on the lookout in your own yard as well as others for flowers that have withered and died.
Make sure you get permission to take the flowers. You can also check with local florists to see if they have any dying flowers they want to get rid of.
If you are really brave, you can dumpster dive for these flowers, but don’t get caught. This is illegal, so we don’t condone this. But, on the down low, it’s a great way to get some really great dying flowers to really give your graveyard the authenticity it deserves!
Halloween Crafts – Egg Carton Spider
Egg Carton Spider
You can also use an egg carton to make a spider. For this craft, you just need to cut out one of the egg cups from the carton. Paint your spider black and wait for it to dry. Paint on eyes or glue googly eyes on him.
Use the tip of pointed scissors to make four small holes on each side of the egg cup. Insert a pipe cleaner in each of the holes and twist the pipe cleaners from the inside to form a knot of sorts so the pipe cleaners do not come out of the holes. Then bend the legs so your spider will stand on his own.
