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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Jack-O-Lantern Windsocks


Materials:
Orange construction paper
Black paper triangles
Round stickers
Green pipe cleaners or string
Glue
Hole punch
Stapler



Instructions:


1 - Glue the triangle eyes and nose
2 - Draw the mouth and stick on the eyeballs







3 - Staple the ends of the paper so it makes it a cylinder shape











4 - Hole punch two holes near the top on opposite sides
5 - Put the pipe cleaners or string through the holes. In my example we used two pipe cleaners twisted together to make it longer.




6- Hang them up so they can blow in the wind.

*An optional step is to add streamers to the bottom.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Jack-O-Lantern Quesadillas


Use a clean scissors to cut out a jack-o-lantern face and make a simple quesadilla into a fun Halloween snack.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Candy Corn Pots


I painted a clay pot yellow orange, and white to look like a candy corn. Of course, the real candy corn went very quickly in my house.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Toilet Paper Roll Mummies


Here is a fun way to repurpose toilet paper rolls.  Make a whole family of mummies for Halloween.



 Materials:
Toilet paper rolls
Rolled gauze (found in the first aid section of the store)
Googly eyes
Glue
Black Sharpie pen






 1. Wrap the rolled gauze around the toilet paper roll. You can tuck the ends in or glue them down.










 2. Add lots of glue for the eyes













3. Let the eyes dry











4. Using the Sharpie pen, add scares and other sorts of scary marks
















Butternut Squash Ghosts

Butternut squash is perfect for making a spooky or friendly ghost.  Let your kids decide how scary their ghost will be.






Materials:
Butternut Squash
White paint
Paintbrush
Black Sharpie pen







Instructions:


 1. Paint the squash completely with the white paint

2. Let the first coat of paint dry










3. Paint a second coat so no yellow skin of the squash is showing
4. Let the paint dry overnight
5. Draw a ghost face with the Black Sharpie pen