Halloween
Handprint Bats
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- Using the paint brush, paint a circle in the center of your paper. Start with a circle that is approximately 3″ wide. This will be the bat’s body.
- Next paint the inside of your preschooler’s hand. You could hand them place their hand in the paint instead, depending on how much paint you would like to use.
- Place the painted side of the hand, with fingers closed, on the paper once on each of the side of the circle. You can then go back and make your circle bigger if you’d like. Let paint dry.
- Using the paint brush, paint ears in purple, white eyes and the mouth with fangs. Then paint black dots in the white eyes.
Handprint Ghosts
To make these hand print ghosts you just need white paint, black construction paper and a black sharpie marker. Make sure your preschooler’s fingers are all tightly closed together when placing the hand on paper. After we made the hand print, I added a little extra paint to paper above the palm of the hand to make a head for the ghost.
Candy Corn
I drew a candy corn shape on some white computer paper.
I then ripped orange and yellow construction paper in pieces.
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Floating Ghost
First thing you are going to do is cover your working area with your towel. The starch is easily washed out of a towel but it gets messy if you don’t cover up your area. Then make you ghost form. I just shove the styrofoam ball on top of the bottle. (if you are using a green floral ball cover it with plastic wrap or something so you don’t get green fuzzies on your cheese cloth.) I also use some wire to make arms.
Next, lay the cheese cloth over your ghost form. Spray it down with starch. I like to use a spray bottle so I can control how my starch I use. The more starch the stiffer your ghost. Next you can use a hair dryer to help make the drying time faster. Once it is completely dry, pull it off of your form and glue on some felt eyes.
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Bat
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- paper (for handprints) - brown or black construction paper work well
- pencil or marker
- scissors,
- glue,
- printer and paper
- something to color with
Egg Carton Eyeballs
Make eyeballs out of the bottom of an egg carton.
Paperbag Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Skeleton
Website Links:
Pumpkin Crafts
Skeleton Crafts
Monster Crafts
Witch Crafts
Spider Crafts
Ghost Crafts
Colouring Pages
DLTK Site: Crafts for Bats, Frankenstein, Ghosts, Owls, Pumpkins, Spiders, Vampires and Witches!
Halloween Poems and Songs
Homemade Treats - Click the picture to link to the recipe
Spiderweb Cakes in a Jar
Crispy Treats
Pumpkin Poptarts
Cookie Pops
Spider Critters
Ghosts
Punch with Ice
Freeze water in a latex glove to make an ice hand.
Orange Pumpkins
1. Cut out a jack-o'-lantern mouth and triangle-shaped nose from the self-stick craft foam.
2. Place a glue dot on the back of 1 googly eye and adhere it to the orange. Repeat with the second googly eye.
3. Stick craft foam nose and mouth to orange.
4. Wrap the half piece of green pipe cleaner stem around pencil to make it curly.
5. Stick the curly stem into the top of the orange.
Worm Ice Cubes
Freeze gummy worms in your icecube tray!
Witches Hat Cookies
Upside down Keebler fudge stripe cookies, orange frosting and a Hershey's kiss = Witch Hat cookies for Halloween.
Bones
They are stick pretzels with a marshmallow stuck on each end and then dipped in white chocolate. I found the recipe here.
Witches Brooms
These sweet and salty snacks are sure to be swept away in no time, so you'll want to make lots.
What you'll need
What you'll need
- Roll of Fruit by the Foot
- Thin pretzels
- For each one, cut a 2-inch length from a roll of Fruit by the Foot.
- With the shorter ends on the side, fringe the bottom of the strip (leaving a 1/4-inch border uncut along the top) to create thin broom bristles.
- Then moisten the upper edge of the fruit with a drop of water and tightly wrap it around one end of a thin pretzel-stick broom handle.