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Haunted House Crafts
I love doing crafts with my daughter. It is always fun to see what she can do. One of my favorite crafts to do with her is shape crafts. I love to watch what she will construct and listen to her tell the stories about what she just made. Last night we took some of those shapes & used them to form haunted houses. Here’s how…
Cut out a bunch of shapes as shown. You will need two shapes for your house base & tower, two triangles for your roofs & two rectangles for chimneys. Cut small squares & rectangles out of yellow paper for the windows.
Glue your house base in place.
Glue on your roof. Draw a cross in the middle of your yellow squares to form the windows & then glue them in place as well.
Glue your tower next to your house & add the chimneys.
Cut out a circle to form a moon & glue it in place. Add googly eyes to finish off your haunted houses.
These houses came out so cute that it inspired one more haunted house craft.
Footprint Haunted House
Paint your child’s foot in all black. Stamp it onto a piece of paper & let it dry.
Paint a door & windows in with yellow.
Use white paint to add details to your house.
Paint in a roof or draw one in with marker.
Paint or draw in bats, a tree & extra details to finish off your haunted little foot.
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Puzzle Piece Spider
If you have old puzzles with missing pieces lying around, instead of throwing them out, consider using your old puzzle pieces to make a cute puzzle craft . Here is a quick and easy craft for the kids for Halloween.
Puzzle Piece Spider Craft
Paint a puzzle piece for each spider that you would like to make.
Dot on gray spots & let the paint dry.
Use a hot glue gun to glue googly eyes on. (Use caution when using hot glue. Adults should operate the glue gun.)
Cut 4 pipe cleaners in half for each spider.
Bend the pipe cleaners & glue in place.
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Fall Window Framed Crafts
This weekend we went to a local farm. We walked through the corn maze, picked pumpkins and went on a hay ride.
Paper Plate Witch Hat
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Ever since my daughter made the announcement that this year she was going to be a princess witch for Halloween, she has been talking about all things witch.
“Mama, I need a witch broom.”
“Mama, you need to be a mama witch.”
“Mama, I need a witch hat.”
While we already purchased her witch costume, I thought it would still be fun for us to make a witch hat.
Paper Plate Witch Hat
Paper plate
Paper bowl
Black & yellow construction paper
Black paint
Purple ribbon
Glue (School & hot glue)
Directions:
As with all of our paper plate hats in the past, we began this one with a paper plate with the center cut out & a paper bowl.
Place the paper plate over the bowl & glue them together.
Paint the paper plate portion. My daughter opted to paint the whole thing. When you are done, let it dry.
While it dries, form the cone for your hat. Leave a small opening at the tip of your cone.
Roll up a narrow strip of paper, about 8″ long, into a skinny cone & glue, tape of staple in place.
Push the skinny cone through the hole at the top of the bigger cone.
Allow about 6″ to poke out at the top. Squeeze a glue gun into & around the edge of opening to glue the smaller cone into the larger one. (Use caution when using a glue gun. Adult operation is recommended.)
Glue the cone over the top of the bowl & bend the tip of the thin part of the cone.
Glue a ribbon around the hat where the cone & the paper plate meet. Glue it in two sections to prevent bunching.
Cut a yellow square & cut out a smaller square in the middle to form a buckle. Glue it to the ribbon. Cover the seam from the two sections of ribbon.
Squeeze glue all over the hat & sprinkle glitter onto the glue. Let dry & enjoy.
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Halloween Paper Plate Silhouette Crafts
I have been thinking about Halloween a lot this week. I realized that I had a little planning to do after my daughter informed me that she would like to be a princess witch this year. September is more than halfway through and Halloween is sneaking up on us quickly. With Halloween on the brain, it inspired us to make a few paper plate crafts. I love silhouettes. There us something so beautiful and haunting about them, which makes them perfect for Halloween. These Halloween silhouettes are an easy craft for all ages.
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Mosaic Pumpkin Craft For Kids
Egg Carton Pumpkin & Jack-O-Lantern Crafts
My picky daughter has recently discovered that she loved eggs. She like them in every form, scrambled, fried & hard-boiled. This is great news to me, as my husband & I love them too. We just finished an extra-large carton of eggs. Normally, I would store the egg carton away to use for craft projects at a later date, but since we are moving I can no longer hoard things away. What does that mean to us? That means last night we made a lot of egg carton crafts.
We decided that we were going to make pumpkins & jack-o-lanterns, so we cut up our carton & painted each piece in orange & then let them dry.
For our first craft, we cut a stem & leaf out of construction paper.
We glued them down to another piece of paper. We took 7 carton pieces & glued them around each other to form a circle.
Here was Mai’s finished project. Don’t forget that each child’s abilities are different in crafting.
Mommy went a little further & made her project into a jack-o-lantern. We used construction paper for the face.
Next we made more jack-o-lanterns.
Glue two painted carton section to each other.
Cut out and glue a stem to the top.
Fold a pipe cleaner in half & curl the ends to form vines. Glue construction paper leaves to the end.
You may leave these as pumpkins or cut out small face pieces out of black construction paper.
Our last craft was a pumpkin patch.
We cut out a corn-stalk & glued it to the paper.
Glue the carton pieces around the stalk.
Draw in the stems, vines & leaves.
We used up every bit of egg carton & made a ton of cute and fun crafts.
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