The only bad Halloween craft project is the Halloween craft project that takes too long. You know the ones. The craft projects that have so many steps that you’ve lost the attention of your kids before step 2. Give these easy Halloween craft ideas a try. They’re easy and fast to create; they’re fun, and the end results are spooky enough to scare even a cynical adult.
Antenna Characters
Get your car ready for Halloween with spooky antenna decor. These adorable characters look great at the top of your automobile antenna. Hey, if your house is dressed up for Halloween, why shouldn’t your car? With various Halloween-themed colors of flat fun foam (orange, black, white, green), draw a light outline of a pumpkin, ghost, spider or Frankenstein head, approximately 4-inches tall and 3-inches wide. Cut out the shapes and with a single hole punch, punch two holes in each shape, one approximately one inch from the top of the shape and another hole approximately one inch from the bottom of the shape.
With glitter glue or permanent markers, decorate the shape with facial features, an outline or anything you’d like. Allow to dry thoroughly. Once dried, you can attach to your automobile antenna by placing the antenna through the bottom hole from the back of the shape to the front. Then place the antenna through the top hole, front to back. The Antenna Character should be secure and should withstand normal driving conditions.
Halloween Kiddie Mosaics
Mosaic art using tiles is very popular nowadays. Kids can duplicate this popular craft using construction paper instead of tiles or glass. Prior to gathering the children around the table, cut small squares of various colors of paper, orange, red, blue, yellow, white, black, green, etc. On a piece of heavy stock, white paper, draw the outline of a pumpkin, Frankenstein or other Halloween character. With a small dab of all-purpose glue on the back of each square, kids can mosaic their way to a uniquely creative masterpiece that can be framed and hung on the wall for many Halloween seasons to come.
Pumpkin Painting
In less than one hour, you and your child can create the most adorable pumpkin craft ready to proudly display in your home. Pumpkin Painting is the perfect activity for little goblins who aren’t old enough to handle the jack-o-lantern carving duties.
Paint Silly Faces of Pumpkins
With simple supplies like acrylic paints, markers, newspaper and sealer, kids can paint whimsical, silly faces on their pumpkins. Or they can paint their favorite cartoon character, Halloween motif or harvest design. Painted pumpkins do not rot near as quickly as carved pumpkins so it is much more economical to paint pumpkins rather than carving them and it’s also much safer and more hands-on for toddlers since there is no knife involved.
Oct 28, 2009 | Holidays, crafts
Babies are adorable when dressed up! But any mom will tell you that good quality Halloween Costumes are pretty expensive. The first Halloween costume should be special, but this does not mean you have to bust your wallet buying it! Before you go crazy spending out of your budget for a Halloween outfit for baby, try the following tips on how to stay frugal without scrimping on your baby’s First Halloween fun.
Ask your friends if they can lend their hand-me-downs
Parents save their kid’s first Halloween costumes for sentimental reasons, or they might be planning to sell these on the next garage sale. If you ask nicely, they might just lend these precious pieces to your child for the Halloween. It’s probably safer to offer to buy the costumes for a small price so that there’s a small monetary incentive for the parents.
If you’re thinking frugally but you can spare a few dollars on discounted Halloween costumes, check out the latest offerings at Dress up Costumes for Kids and Adults.
Swap Costumes
What if your neighbors have kids of the same age? You can offer to swap costumes so that someone in their family can be a goblin, and someone in yours can be the angel this year. They may be open to swapping costumes with you. You can swap one of your older kids with one of their younger ones.
Create Your Own Costumes
Most moms nowadays have become more resourceful in creating outfits for toddlers during the Halloween season. Old onesies have been transformed into spooky goblin outfits just by adding a touch of black and purple dye. Miniature halos have been sculpted from gold-painted pipe cleaners. Angel or Cupid outfits have been fashioned out of ordinary white linen. The thing is, babies look cute even when the costumes are homemade!
Oct 25, 2009 | Holidays, family traditions
Here’s a Halloween poem kids will love:
Witches and Goblins and Ghosts, OH NO
By Sheilah Warner Blackledge
Out on a night called Halloween
I’m dressed like a dog and my mom’s a queen
The sounds of ghosts make me turn green
I think I’ll run, but instead I scream
The witch over there behind those trees
Put me and mama on our knees
A goblin grabbed me by the arm
It was my friend Jo who meant me no harm
Oh my, oh why do I want to go?
To hear witches and goblins and ghosts, OH NO!
If you’re making tombstone decorations this Halloween, here are some ideas for you.
Tombstone Quotes to Make You Giggle
Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde): “As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you.”
Tombstone Arizona: “Here lies Lester Moore; Four slugs from a .44; No Les No More.
Pennsylvania Tombstone, US: “Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.”
England Tombstone: “The children of Israel wanted bread and the Lord sent them manna. Old Clerk Wallace wanted a wife…and the Devil sent him Anna.”
Massachusetts Tombstone: “Under the sod and under the trees, lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there’s only the pod. Pease shelled out and went to God.”
Dentists’ Tombstone: “John Brown is filling his last cavity.”
Can you come up with more amusing or frightening tombstone ideas?
Oct 20, 2009 | Holidays
