Sweet Treat for Your Soul Pumpkin Craft Project – Write your favorite bible verse
on the back of this pumpkin with the message “You picked a sweet treat from my bowl,so here’s a sweet treat for your soul” on the other side. Just tie to your Halloween treat and spread the love!
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Alien Craft Project
You’ll be the talk of the town with these cute creatures from outer space on display at your next party. Create them before the party for a unique one of a kind display, or have the children make them at the party for a fun take home gift! They’re fun and easy.
Supplies
- Green yarn
- 6” x 6” green foam sheet
- 4 Green pipe cleaners
- 3 Wiggle eyes or animal eyes
- 2 Pompom balls
- 1 16 ounce coffee cup
- 8” piece of cardboard or dvd case
- Tacky glue
- Scissors
- Newspaper
Instructions
- To make the body, wrap yarn around an 8″ piece of cardboard approximately 100 times.
- Cut an 8″ piece of yarn and slide it under wrapped yarn that is on one side of the cardboard. Tie tightly into a double knot.
- Turn the cardboard over and cut completely through the yarn on this side. The yarn will not be attached to the cardboard.
- To make the arms – poke two holes on each side of the coffee cup, and slide two green pipe cleaners through the holes.
- To make the antennas – poke one hole through the bottom of the coffee cup. Bend the other two pipe cleaners in half and slide them through the hole.
- Place the coffee cup upside down on newspaper.
- Cover the bottom and sides of the coffee cup with tacky glue.
- Place the yarn on the bottom of the coffee cup so that the double knot is aligned with the center of the cup. The yarn should fall to the sides of the cup like hair.
- Make sure that the antennas and arms are visible and smooth out the yarn as you glue it to the cup.
- Cut hands and feet out of the green foam piece. The feet can even be made to look like slime.
- Glue the feet and hands to the Martian.
- Attach pompoms to the antennas with glue, or simply wrap the pipe cleaner around the pompom.
- Glue on eyes.
- Display for all to see!
Easy to Make Dough Ghosts Craft Project
Your kids will love making these cute dough ghosts! Couple them with our paper bag trees and create a Halloween scene that’s hauntingly delightful.
Supplies
- 1 – Bowl
- 1 – Spoon
- 1 – Cup Flour
- 1 – Cup Salt
- 1/2 Cup Water
- 1 – Black Permanent Marker
- 1 – Plastic Table Cloth
- Microwave
Instructions:
- Cover your workspace with a plastic table cloth.
- Combine flour, salt, and water and stir until the mixture has a doughy consistency.
- Shape into ghost figures.
- Microwave each ghost figure for 30 seconds at a time until the figure has become hard (approximately 2 – 2 1/2 minutes).
- Let cool.
- Draw eyes and mouth.
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Start a new trend in your neighborhood with this fun You’ve Been BOOed idea!
Supplies
Instructions:
- Print out the You’ve been BOOed template and add it to the treat bag that you have made for your neighbors.
- Watch as the fun circles around your block and onto other blocks!
You’ve Been BOOed Poem:
You’ve Been BOOed!
The air is cool, it’s time for fall,
Soon Halloween will come to all
Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore,
Tricky witches at your door.
The spooks are after things to do,
In fact a spook brought this to you !!!
The treats that came with this short note,
Are yours to keep, enjoy them both.
The excitement comes when friends like you,
Will copy it & make it two,
We’ll all have smiles upon our faces,
No one will know who BOOed our places!
Just be sure that you don’t tell,
Keep it secret ,hide it well.
Please join the fun, the seasons here.
Just spread these “BOO’s” & Halloween cheer.
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Craft kits and clubs for kids of all ages! Permission is granted to reproduce this sheet in its entirety for your personal and non-commercial use.
Scary Paper Trees from Brown Bags are Easy Halloween Craft Project
These paper bag trees are so easy to make and are a great addition to any Halloween scene.
Supplies
- 1 – scissors
- 1 – paper lunch sack per tree
Instructions:
- Vertically cut the lunch sack at the opening.
- Open the bag and begin to twist at the bottom to make the tree trunk.
- Twist the cut strips to make the branches.
Printable Halloween Card
I love this printable Halloween card! It’s so cute and easy to make. Simply printout and color! I think using chalk creates a more elegant card but paints, markers, and crayons work great too. The candy corn colors of this example are super cute!
Supplies
Instructions:
- Print out the Easy Printable Halloween Card onto the white cardstock.
- Color it using chalk, makers, paints, or crayons.
- Send one to a friend!
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Display this cute ghost windsock in your front yard for a fun, festive look this Halloween! To make the ghost and pumpkin follow steps 1-3 below or download it for free from http://www.kraftykid.com/kid-crafts.html
Supplies
- 1 – 8”x11” white foam sheet
- 1 – 8”x11” orange foam sheet
- 1 – Piece of black ribbon
- 3 – Sheets of tissue paper
- 1 – Black pen
- Glue
Instructions:
- Cut a ghost shape out of the white foam.
- Cut two small ovals out of the white foam to make the hands.
- Cut one circle and one small rectangle out of the orange foam to make a pumpkin.
- Cut ½” strips of white tissue paper.
- Glue the white tissue strips to the back of the white foam ghost.
- Make a loop with the ribbon and glue to the back of the ghost head. This is the hanger.
- Allow time to dry.
- Glue the pumpkin shape to the front of the ghost.
- Glue the small white ovals to the front of the pumpkin.
- Draw in the eyes, mouth, and wording.
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Here’s your chance to turn an empty ribbon spool into something that you can share with your friends. This is one of the newest trends in scrapbook mini albums! Be the first on you block to demonstrate your craftiness with this fresh new album idea!
Supplies
- 1 – 8”x11” piece of orange cardstock
- 1 – 8”x11” piece of black cardstock
- 1 – 8”x11” piece of patterned cardstock
- 1 – Ribbon Spool
- 1 – 20” piece of ribbon
- 8 – Pictures
- An assortment of ribbons
- Hole punch or ribbon punch
- Glue
- Stickers
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Marker
Instructions:
Making the Cover
- Carefully separate both cardboard circles from the spool. You should have two cardboard circles and one cardboard spool.
- Trace the inside circle of the spool to create a small circle pattern and set aside. We will use this pattern when we make the pages.
- Using one of the cardboard circles as a pattern cut 2 circles out of the patterned and orange cardstock so that you have 4 circles.
- Glue the patterned cardstock to the outside of the 2 cardboard circles.
- Decorate one of them circles with stickers or phrases – this will be the album cover.
- Glue the orange cardstock to the inside of the cardboard circles.
- Using the hole punch, punch along the edge of the album cover.
- Thread the assortment of ribbon through the holes and tie each of them in a knot.
- Trim the ends to get the length desired.
- Glue the cardboard spool to the orange side of the back of the album.
- Glue an assortment of ribbon around the spool so that the white cardboard can no longer been seen.
Making the Pages
- Using this pattern cut 7 black and 7 orange circles.
- Using the small circle pattern cut 6 pictures.
- Place 3 black, 3 orange, and 3 picture circles in a line so that they lay face down in a line. They should be finger width apart.
- Put glue on the back of each circle.
- Place the 20” ribbon on top of the glue so that it goes through the center of each circle. Make sure to leave an 11/2” tail on each side of the ribbon.
- Place the remaining pictures, 3 black, and 3 orange circles on top of the ribbon.
- Allow time to dry.
- Decorate the black and orange circles with phrases or stickers. Your album pages are now complete.
Final Assembly
- Glue 1” of the ribbon attached to the pages to the inside of the spool.
- Cover this ribbon with the remaining black circle.
- Glue the other end to the back of the album cover.
- Cover this ribbon with the remaining orange circle.
- Fold the pictures into the spool accordion style
Sweet Treat for Your Soul Pumpkin Craft Project – Write your favorite bible verse