Paper Plate Halloween Crafts – The Pinterested Parent

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It is hard to believe that it is already the middle of September. My favorite season is here. I can hardly wait to begin all of our fall festivities. Soon we will go on our annual leaf peeping drive through Vermont & take our daughter apple picking. We have been trying to brain storm for Halloween costumes, but have not had much luck coming up with anything. I asked Mai, what she thought we should all be for Halloween. She said that she wanted to be a Jack-o-lantern & that I could be the mommy Jack-O-Lantern & daddy could be a ghost. Adorable! Although I do not think that I will be going as a mommy Jack-O-Lantern this year, it is never too early for our Jack-O-Lantern & Halloween inspired crafts.

Paper Plate Jack-O-Lantern

Draw the Jack-O-Lantern face on the back side of the paper plate.

Cut out the the outline to make the Jack-O-Lantern face. — Cut out the outline to make the Jack-O-Lantern face.

Paint another paper plate on the top side. Layer colors light to dark.

Cut out a stem using green foam or construction paper. Glue it to the plate.

Mai wanted hers to be a mask, so we attached a pipe cleaner to the back for her.

Scarecrow Mask

Draw your scarecrow face on the backside of the paper plate. Cut out the eyes. Paint your plate yellow.

Using black foam or construction paper, cut out & glue your nose & eyes in place. — Cut out & glue your nose & eyes in place using black foam or construction paper.

With a marker draw in eye lashes & stitches around the mouth.

Bend & glue a few pipe cleaners or yarn in place to make the hair.

Cut out a hat & glue it to the top of the scarecrow.

Cut out a scarf & check it using a marker.

Glue pipe cleaners or string to the back to hold the mask in place on the head.

Paper Plate Spider Web

Cut slits around the paper plate every 2 pleats around.

Using black yarn, slide a strand between one of the slits. Cross the strand across the plate repeatedly until you achieve your desired look.

End your web at the same spot that you started it in. Tie the starting strand & end strand together,

Cut 3 pieces of pipe cleaner. Glue the pieces to the pom pom to form a spider. Add goggly eyes if you desire.

Stick the spider in the web. Use a hole punch to make a hole on the edge of the plate & use a piece of string or a pipe cleaner to hang your web.

9 comments

Janine Huldie says:

September 14, 2014 at 9:00 am

Definitely always looking for more Halloween type crafts and these look fun and easy enough to try. So will have to give them a whirl in the next few weeks with my girls now!! 🙂

1. The Pinterested Parent says:
  
  September 14, 2014 at 9:13 am
  
  Mai likes anything that involves painting and she loves masks too. She kept trying to put on the Jack-o-lantern while it was still wet. Lol.
  
Sasha says:

September 14, 2014 at 3:45 pm

Simple yet adorable–perfect for a just turned three year old!! We were out so much this summer it seems I slacked off on crafting days. With the cold weather approaching I am going to be referring to your site often. 🙂

1. The Pinterested Parent says:
  
  September 14, 2014 at 4:06 pm
  
  We had a lot of rainy days towards our summer’s end. Saturday we were supposed to go to the fair, but it rained, enter Halloween crafts. Today it was actually gorgeous out but we had a heating guy out to do some work before the winter, so we were stuck home. 🙁 We made a gingerbread haunted house. Lol
  
Susen Malkowski Kuchta says:

September 14, 2014 at 9:37 pm

They all came out so cute! What fun! I especially like the scarecrow!!

Inki says:

October 25, 2014 at 4:03 am

lovely ideas, just reminder that spiders have 8 legs, so cut 4 pieces of pipecleaners

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