Halloween Crafts

Ghost lollypops in Pumpkin
Remove pumpkin stem, poke holes with a nail into top. Cut paper towels into 10" squares. Place the squares over lollypops and tie with raffia. Paint eyes and mouth on ghost’s face. Stick the lollypop into one of the holes.


Fabulous Fall Wreath
Colorful autumn leaves
Paper plate
Scissors
Glue gun
1 hole punch
1 foot of red ribbon
Cut out the center of the paper plate to create a ring. Glue the leaves in a circular fashion onto the ring. Let the glue dry. Punch a hole into the top and tie a colorful ribbon to hang.


Crayon leaf Rubbings
Colorful autumn leaves
Tracing paper
Crayons
Lay a leaf face side up on a table. Cover the leaf with tracing paper. Peel the paper level off a crayon and lay the crayon on it’s side. Lightly rub the side of the crayon over the paper covering the leaf. You can rub the leaves into many different patterns. These make great holiday cards and invitations.

Spider web Munch
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar
3 cups toasted rice cereal
Heat chocolate chips and ¾ cup peanut butter over low heat stirring constantly until smooth. Remove from heat add sugar. Place cereal in large bowl. Add 1 cup melted chocolate mixture place on ungreased baking sheet. Using small metal spatula, shape into a 10 " circle with slightly raised border.
Place remaining peanut butter into plastic bag cut corner squeeze to pipe circles on top of chocolate. Using tooth pick pull peanut butter from center to make look like spider web.


Bone Chillin’Brew
Floating hands from above
2 bottles punch flavor juice
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
4 cans lemon-lime soda
Float hand in punch.

Passion Putrid Punch
2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
1-1/2 cups passion fruit juice
1/4 cup lime juice
32 oz gingerale
Frozen hand


Barf Queso Dip
1 lb ground beef
1 large onion chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 lbs American cheese cubed
8 oz smoked sausage cul lengthwise
14-1/2 oz can diced tomatoes
4-1/2 oz can green chili peppers
Orange and black chips
Cook ground beef and onions. Place in crock pot with rest of ingredients and cook until cheese melts.


Skull Rocks
Assorted rocks
Paint
Brushes
Collect rocks and paint different spooky of happy faces. Add Gold for teeth or rhinestones. Place in garden.


Felt Ghost Goodie Bags
Black embroidery floss
White felt squares black ribbon
Cut 8" X 6" piece of felt, making look jagged. Fold down the jagged edge of each square. Using black embroidery floss, stitch across the edge approximately ¾ inch below the fold, leaving an opening for the ribbon.
Place felt squares with wrong sides together. Using black embroidery floss, hand-stitch around three sides of the squares. Do not stitch over the ribbon opening.
With a black permanent pen, draw ghost eyes and mouth.
Cut two 18" pieces of ribbon for each bag and thread one through the fold and fill the bags and pull the ribbons tight.


Ghastly Ghosts
Paint a butternut squash with white acrylic paint. Let dry between each coat.
Draw a face on the gourd with a pencil, then write over with permanent black marker to fill in the eyes and mouth.


Penny Bracelets
Tape nine pennies together with clear packing tape. Then hole punch at both ends. Use string to tie on. These make great trick or treat gifts, a great alternative to candy.


Voodoo Shrunken apple heads
Peel and core large, firm apples and cut about 1/4th inch into them for the eyes, mouth, nose and facial wrinkles. Brush with lemon juice and rub with salt. Place in oven for 2 hours at 100 degrees. Store in warm place until the surface feels dry. Takes about two weeks.


Party Tips
1 Limit each of your children’s guests equal to their age. 4 years old allowed to invite 4 friends.
2 Invite the parents of your child’s guests to help with games, serve food and tell ghost stories.
Send invitations 3 weeks in advance and request RSVP.
Make more food than you think you’ll need.
Make at least 5 more goodie bags than you think you’ll need for unexpected guests.


Party Favor Spell Book
Purchase some 70 sheet green or black note books and decorate the top with sequins, glitter, feathers, etc… and Write spell book. On the First page write Teacher’s eye and textbook row, when I wake tomorrow, everything I’ll know.

Black Magic Picture
Color in a Fun Halloween picture, with bright crayon colors. Be sure to really press down and leave lots of color. Then paint over the top with black paint and the original crayon picture will show through.


Spooky Skeletons
Cut a skeleton out of pattern and glue onto black paper. Where the bones are, glue q-tips for bones.

Ghost Prints
Take sheets of black paper and trace your child’s foot inside of a shoe. Then use glow in the dark paint to fill in the outline. Tape up anywhere that will be dark so the prints will glow.
**Use washable paint for easier cleaning!


Green Goop
Mixture One:
1/4 cup white glue
1/4 cup water
food coloring
Mixture Two:
1/8 cup water
1/2 tsp. borax
Mix mixture 1 in one bowl, and mixture 2 in another. Make sure both are well-mixed. Add mixture 1 into mixture 2. Reach in and pull out your GAK! Knead for 1-2 minutes until formed. Store in a plastic ziplock bag.

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