Nothing says Halloween like skeletons, ghosts and pumpkins. Keep the kids busy before trick-or-treat time with these fun and easy Halloween crafts.
Q-tip skeletons
What you’ll need:
- black marker
- white paper
- black construction paper
- scissors
- Q-tips
- glue
What you’ll do:
- Use your black marker to draw a skeleton face on the white paper.
- Cut out the skeleton face and glue it to the black construction paper.
- Glue the Q-tips to the black construction paper to make the bones. Use your scissors to cut the Q-tips to make shorter segments (like for fingers and toes).
Glass jar jack-o’-lanterns
What you’ll need:
- an empty glass jar
- masking tape
- orange paint
- paint brush
- candle
What you’ll do:
- Remove the label from your empty jar and thoroughly clean and dry it.
- Cut out shapes from your masking tape to make the eyes, nose and mouth.
- Stick the masking tape shapes onto the glass.
- Paint over the masking tape with the orange paint, then allow the paint to dry.
- Remove the masking tape, then light a candle inside the jar.
Paper cup ghosts
What you’ll need:
- white paper cups
- white streamers
- clear tape
- black marker
- scissors
- white string
What you’ll do:
- Turn a white cup upside down and draw a face on it.
- Cut streamers to 6-inch lengths and tape them to the inside of the cup.
- Use your scissors to cut a small slit in the bottom of the cup.
- Thread some string through the slit in the cup and tie a knot so that it will stay in place.
- Use the string to hang the ghost in a doorway or from the ceiling.
Image credit: Amy Vowles
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