Halloween Party Crafts

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Halloween Spiders

These yarn spiders make great Halloween decorations and fun party favors to put in a pinata or treat sacks! Decorate your table, hang them from lamps and ceiling or use as party favors that kids can take home.

Materials:
Blue, Purple or Black Yarn

Black Pipe Cleaners

Wiggly Eyes

Scissors

Glue

Instructions:

1. Wrap yarn around extended hand, about 50 times or until yarn wrapping is thick around hand.

2. Introduce 3 pipe cleaners (about 4" long each) through yarn wrapping, letting them stick out each side.

3. Use a long piece of yarn (about 5" long) to tie yarn wrapping at the center, together with pipe cleaners. Have someone help you tie wrapping and cleaners tightly so the cleaners won't come out or move.

4. Take out your hand and cut the ends of the wrapping and mess up yarn ends to make it look like a pompom. Bend pipe cleaners down to make the spider's legs.

5. Glue the wiggly eyes to the front of the spider... that's it!

You can also add color to your Halloween party alternating orange spiders with black ones, or even spiders of all colors!

Yarn spiders are very easy to make... you can have some as party decorations or party favors, or you can provide kids with materials and help them make them during your Halloween party... kids will love this cute gifts but will enjoy even more making them themselves! This will be a fun Halloween party activity that will keep kids entertained. It can also be planned out at school to decorate the classroom for Halloween.

Ghosts Streamer

This is an easy Halloween craft activity that requires just a few materials.

Materials:

Several sheets of white paper

Black Marker

Black Construction Paper

Glue

String

Instructions:

1. Use a black marker to outline a ghost on a sheet of paper. Draw a small tab at the top of the ghost. Decide on the length of your streamer and draw enough ghosts to stick all along.

2. Cut out ghosts around the outline. Cut small circles out of black construction paper.

3. Glue circles on the ghost to make eyes and mouth.

4. Add glue to the back of the tab at the top of the ghost, fold tab over the string and press to stick it well to the string. Stick ghosts 2" away from each other.

This craft activity is very simple... even the smallest kids can help! Let kids help decorate the house for a Halloween party by teaching them how to make these cute ghost streamers.

Ghosts Template for Streamer

Even simpler...and faster! We have created a template with ghost figures that you can simply print, cut out and stick them along a string to create your ghosts streamer. Click on the image to the left to print it out.

Silly Bats

Great Halloween decoration for your home or school room!

Materials:
Black Foam

Black Marker

Scissors

Glue

White Paper

Wiggly Eyes

Instructions:

1. Print the bats template below. Cut out wings and body and place over a piece of foam.

2. Outline all body parts on the foam with a marker.

3. Cut out bat's parts along the outline drawn on the foam.

4. Glue wings behind the bat's body.

5. Cut out bat's fangs from the sheet of paper with the template.

5. Glue wiggly eyes and paper fangs on bat's face.

6. Use a black marker to draw lines along the bat's wings to finish off.

Stick on walls to decorate for Halloween!

Bats Template

Click on the image to the left and print out. Use template to draw bat's parts on foam or simply give to children to color, cut out and stick together to create paper bats!

Monster Faces

Fun Halloween party favors for kids!

Materials:
Thick Cardboard

Old Newspapers

Glue

1 Basin (about 4 in. deep)

Black Marker

Scissors

Paints
Paint Brush

Instructions:

1. First make the papier mâché, a paper pulp used to mold figures. Fill half basin with water and add 4oz. of glue to the water. Mix well. Tear newspapers into small pieces and immerse in the mixture. Add enough paper to reach the surface of the water. Leave for 1 day until paper is disintegrated in the water.

2. Outline monsters faces on the cardboard. Cut out.

3. Use the paper mâché as a "dough" to emboss monster's nose, eyes and eyebrows.

4. Add a layer of glue using a brush to hold paper mache more firmly to cardboard and give an even finish to surface. Leave face to dry for a day.

5. Paint monsters face and leave to dry. Use to decorate your Halloween party or as party favors.