Halloween Decorations
NO TRICKS HERE! Treat your young ones to an afternoon of amusement with these batty crafts.
By Sheryl Morales
Egg Carton Bats • Egg Carton Spider • Milk Jug Pumpkin • Pumpkin Masks • Ghost Windsock • Toilet Tissue Roll Bat
Egg Carton Bats
- Materials:
- Egg carton
- Black Paint
- Googly Eyes
- Yarn (any color)
- String
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paint Brush
- Directions:
- Separate three cups from an egg carton using scissors.
- Cut out part of the bottoms of each end cup to look like bat wings.
- Paint all three cups black including the underside and let dry.
- Glue two googly eyes and yarn for a mouth on the middle cup.
- Thread a string through the top of the middle cup to hang.
Egg Carton Spider
- Materials:
- Egg Carton Cup
- Black Paint
- Googly Eyes
- Black Pipe Cleaners
- Paint Brush
- Scissors
- Yarn (any color)
- Directions:
- Separate one cup from an egg carton using scissors.
- Paint the egg carton cup black and let dry.
- Using the point of the scissors make four holes along each side of the cup.
- Place a pipe cleaner in each hole for the legs, curving them to maintain a standing position.
- Glue on googly eyes and yarn for a mouth.
Milk Jug Pumpkin
- Materials:
- Gallon Milk Jug
- Orange Paint
- Glue
- Black Permanent Marker or Construction Paper
- Paint Brush
- Directions:
- Mix orange paint and glue together (about 1/4 cup glue to one cup of paint). This helps the paint stick to the container without any peeling.
- Paint the entire milk jug orange and let dry. Apply another coat of paint after first coat dries for a darker coat.
- After paint has fully dried you can decorate the milk jug with a pumpkin face using either a black permanent marker or cutting out pumpkin face pieces from black construction paper and gluing them on the jug.
- As an added effect, you can place a large flashlight behind the jug to shine through. Or place a smaller flashlight that stays lit inside the jug.
Pumpkin Masks
- Materials:
- Paper Plates
- Yarn
- Optional Item-Crayons, Markers, Paint, Construction Paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- Hole Punch
- Directions:
- Take a paper plate and color or paint it orange using crayon, marker or paint.
- Decorate with a jack-o-lantern face. Using either black crayon, marker, paint or cut out pieces of black construction paper and glue on.
- Using the hole puncher, punch a hole on each side of the plate near the edges.
- Lace yarn through each hole and tie yarn.
Ghost Windsock
- Materials:
- Cylinder Shaped Cardboard Container (ex. oatmeal container)
- White Construction Paper
- Tape
- White Gallon Trash Bag
- Black Construction Paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- Directions:
- Measure out the length of the cardboard container on the white construction paper and cut paper so it will be long enough to wrap around the cardboard container.
- Tape paper to the container.
- Decorate white paper with a ghostly face cutting out black eyes and a mouth from black construction paper and gluing them on the white paper.
- Cut strips 1” to 2” in width from a white trash bag to any length desired.
- Tape one end from each strip to the open end of the container along the walls.
Toilet Tissue Roll Bat
- Materials:
- Empty Toilet Tissue Roll
- Black Paint
- Black and White Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Black and Red Marker
- Directions:
- Paint toilet tissue roll black and let dry.
- Trace two bat wings and two triangle shaped ears on the black paper and cut out.
- Cut two small triangle shaped fangs, a small circle for a nose and two circles for the eyes from the white paper.
- Glue on construction paper pieces to the toilet tissue roll.
