Easy Kids Crafts For Halloween
Are your kids excited about Halloween yet? We don’t have a day go by where my daughter doesn’t ask me if it’s time to go trick-or-treating yet. Keep them busy while they wait with these easy kids craft ideas you can do together.
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Ghost Hand Puppet
Kids love playing with puppets and there’s hardly an easier puppet to make than a ghost. All you need is a white paper towel, or a white handkerchief, a rubber band and a black marker.
Ask your child to spread out her thumb and pinky, but keep the 3 other fingers together. Drape the paper towel over her hand and secure the rubber band around the three fingers. This will be the ghost’s head; the thumb and pinkie form the arms. Draw eyes and a mouth on the paper towel and the little ghost puppet is finished.
Ghost Lollipops
Dress up the lollipops you are giving away for Halloween by wrapping a white tissue or small piece of fabric over them. Secure it with a piece of string or a rubber band. Take a black marker and draw eyes and a round mouth on the ghost’s face.
Spider Webs
What would Halloween be without spiders and spider webs? Make these cute little spider webs with the kids and hang them in the window. All you need are 3 craft or clean popsicle sticks and some white or black yarn. Take two of the craft sticks and glue them together to form a cross. Glue the 3rd one right in the middle, forming a star shape. Tie one end of the yarn around one of the craft sticks in the center. Start weaving it over one craft stick and under the other. Keep going around, forming your spider web. Make sure you leave at least 1/4th inch of the craft sticks sticking out and secure the loose end by tying it to one of the craft sticks. Glue a small plastic spider in the center and hang your spider web up.
Witch Broom Pencil
Witch broom pencils make a cute Halloween gift that doesn’t involve candy. You can turn any pencil into a witch’s broom with a handful of household items. All you need is a regular pencil, some small twigs out of the yard, some string and a little glue.
Break the twigs into equal lengths pieces and line them up around the unsharpened end of a pencil. Make it look like an old fashioned broom. Secure the wigs with string, and then apply a thick layer of glue to keep it all in place.
Cauldron Candy Dish
To make this cute cauldron candy dish, start with an empty round plastic container (like a cool-whip container). Clean it, dry it, and then paint it black. Paint three small wooden balls black as well. After the paint is dry, glue them to the bottom of your plastic container. Add a handle made out of wire if you’d like and your candy dish cauldron is done. Just add some of your favorite Halloween candy.
Pumpkin Painting
Carving funny or scary faces into a pumpkin is a lot of fun, but it also gets quite messy and small kids can’t really do much since there’s a knife involved. Buy a few small pumpkins instead, or in addition to the big carving pumpkin. Use permanent pens or acrylic paint to draw funny faces on your mini-pumpkins.
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More t-shirt painting
We did more t-shirt painting this week!
This one is my favorite we did of the kids ~ a purple catipillar on a lighter purple shirt. The stencils are so easy to cut out if you have the right tool and the painting is easy. I've been lucky that my kids are not getting paint all over themselves anymore!
We have a few more stencils that they really want done, but we ran out of t-shirts. Luckily for us, we also have Halloween cards to finish up, so we are not hurting for crafting projects.
Have you tried t-shirt stenciling?
A Nice Day Agenda
It is such a nice day today! There is a slight breeze and it's "only" 81 degrees - of course with the wind, it is a bit cooler. I love that it is finally starting to cool down. The kids are playing in the porch and we are going for a walk later this afternoon. I have a few of the windows around the house opened up - a nice touch since it has been so hot we've been using the AC! Fresh air inside the house is always a good thing!
My nice day agenda today is to stamp and make a few cards. I have friends having babies, nephews going to school and Halloween to think about! I'd like to make a Halloween card for each of my nephews - and I have 9 nephews so I better get to work now!
What is your nice day agenda? Here is a quick article that will give you some ideas!
Enjoy!
8 Cheap Activities To Do With Your Kids
These inexpensive ideas are sure to get your kids creative juices flowing! The kids will love them because it gives them something productive to do and mom will love them because they’re easy and cheap!
1.) Fly a kite at a local park. Kites can usually be found at any local dollar store. We found a cute Tigger kite at our local Dollar Tree.
2.) Blow bubbles. Now how cheap are bubbles, like $.50 a bottle?! Kids can have contests to see who can make the most or the biggest bubble.
3.) Make an “I love You” card for someone. Or is someone’s birthday coming up? Let the kids be creative and make a friend or relative a card from the heart.
4.) Paint Rocks. You can find rocks anywhere. Let the kids be creative with some paint, markers, ribbons, beads and glue.
5.) Catch fireflies, ants, bugs or butterflies. Summer nights are perfect for catching fireflies and they are so neat as a nightlight. At your local dollar store, you may also be able to find a cheap ant farm. These are so much fun!!
6.) Put together a puzzle. These always keep kids entertained and busy.
7.) Make paper airplanes. Let the kids make their own, decorate them and then fly them.
8.) Frame their hands and feet! Have your kids put their hand prints and feet prints on paper and then frame them in an inexpensive frame. This is something that you will love down the road when the kids are grown.
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Outdoor Windy Crafts
I suppose it's because we are near the ocean but often we have a breeze here. When we were living in Washington, I had windchimes up. I loved them. They were so pretty and of course sounded great. I had three sets and none of them made the cross country move. :( I was upset and have yet to find more windchimes for myself. I just want a couple - maybe one or two in the front and then one in the back.
I also debate getting a front greeting flag! I've seen them in sets of 12, like one for each month. I never had one before but some days I think I really want one. LOL And then there are days where I think I don't want anything flapping out there - to have to worry about it when it storms, does it stay up very well, etc.
Here is a craft to create your own windsock. I don't think I have enough ribbon around the house to create one right now - but the craft stores usually have a bin with ribbon on sale for a dollar! My plan is to let the kids pick out their own ribbon and make two. Even if we don't hang them up outside, they can put them in their rooms!
Enjoy! :)
Make Your Own Windsock
This is the perfect craft for kids of any age (though younger ones will need your help) plus they look so cute hanging outside.
What you’ll need:
v 2 plastic cups (per child)
v glue, hole puncher and scissors (parents supervision)
v assortment of ribbons and string
v stickers and paints
First of all, decorate your cups. You can paint them if you don’t like their current color and then apply the stickers to them
Once the paint has dried, glue the bottoms of each cup together (you made need to use a hot glue gun). Then choose which end you want to be the top and punch a hole in opposite sides of the cup. Tie a string from one hole to the other. This will be the handle for your windsock.
Then from the bottom of the cup, glue ribbons to the inside of them cup and let them hang down about 2 feet so that there’s enough to blow in the wind.
After they have dried completely, proudly display them outside!
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Crochet For Kids
I was listening to a craft podcast last week - an older episode of a regular podcast I listen to - and it was mentioned that she (not sure if it was the host or the person she was interviewing) learned to crochet when she was 5 or 6.
My next project - to teach my daughter to crochet!! She is very interested, she loved watching me. I tried to teach her and she caught on to the basics of it, but didn't get too far. Here was one of my first tries (this is just a practice peice).
This is the second practice piece I made. It's a little rough on the bottom, that's where I started. A little wiggly, loose and tight stitches. But I was just learning!
I made a washcloth from a book that my friend loaned me - but my daughter took it and last I saw, Strawberry Shortcake was warm at night. I'll grab a picture of that soon.
I've said it before, but I am SO glad my kids like being crafty! They enjoy doing crafts and often ask to do something. My daughter really wants to learn crochet, especially since I am now working on a few things and it's really in the open. It's much more portable then other crafts that we do.
I plan on making a couple of ponchos for Christmas, but that's a few months away. Maybe I'll get started next month. Nothing like pressure to get you moving quickly!
