Get the kids involved in making easy Halloween crafts.
The Halloween holiday is an ideal time to go all out with your decorating. Kitschy, scary, cute or understated, there are so many easy crafts from which to choose. Get the kids involved; this is a fun time for them, too. Use recyclables from around the house for some crafts, and purchase any other items you may need from a craft store.
Yard Decorations
Recycle empty gallon milk jugs into ghostly decor.
Treat your guests to spooky sights as they walk up to your door. Draw ghost and vampire faces on the front of three clean milk jugs with red and black markers. Cut holes in the back and insert battery-operated candles. Add an eerie witch's cauldron to spook up your lawn. Place a black, plastic tub on some logs wrapped in strings of red lights. Fill the tub with sheets of lightly crushed aluminum foil and red and green cellophane. Place strings of green and white lights on top. Dry ice adds a nice touch if it's available.
Pumpkin Crafts
Terra-cotta pots can become pumpkins for Halloween.
Craft some easy Halloween pumpkins. Turn terra-cotta pots of different sizes upside-down. Glue jack-o-lantern faces cut from yellow and black foam to the front. Attach thick sticks to the top and decoupage the whole pot to weatherproof. Draw an outline of scary eyes and a mouth on the shiny side of an old CD. Paint several coats of orange paint around the features. Cut leaves out of craft foam and glue to the top. Hang several pumpkins from the ceiling or in your windows.
Scary Spider Crafts
Transform small pumpkins into scary spiders.
Decorate your Halloween table with some creepy spiders. Shave the sides off a plastic foam ball and egg, and glue the flat sides together. Paint them black and attach red bead eyes to the ball. Attach the middle of four 10-inch pieces of a black feather boa to the bottom with a glue gun to create legs. To create another spider, paint very small pumpkins black. Attach eight chenille pipe cleaners to the bottoms and bend up in the middle to create spider legs. Glue wiggly eyes to the front.
Crafts for Kids
Shoe boxes can become creepy monster feet.
Have the kids join in the fun by making broomstick bookmarks for their favorite scary storybook. Glue a wedge-shaped piece of brown foam to the end of a tongue depressor. Wrap raffia around the top of the foam and cut the wide end in several small strips to resemble a broom. Let them stomp around in some scary monster feet they created. Glue the lids to two empty shoe boxes and cut holes in the top for feet. Paint them in a monstrous design. Cut triangular shapes out of green paper or craft foam and glue on the ends as toenails. Fake fur is a fun addition if they are going for the Bigfoot look.
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