Friday, October 22, 2010

Easy and Marvelous Monsters

Today's Craft:
Easy and Marvelous Monsters

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper plate (any color), colored construction paper, scissors, glue or tape, markers or crayons, and some pipecleaners.

Take your paper plate and transform it into a scary or silly monster face by adding features and color with pieces of construction paper, pipecleaners, and using by your markers.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wonderful Easy to Make Witches

Today's Craft:
Wonderful Easy to Make Witches

Craft Project Directions:
To make this witch you will need black, green or white construction paper, paper shreds, a pipe cleaner, and scissors.

First using the templates provided or your own imagination cut out a basic witch shape. Cut two slits in the arms on the dotted lines.

Next cut out a witch face. Now you are ready to decorate your witch. Add the face, add paper shred hair, use crayons to add further details, add glitter for that extra sparkle, and anything else you want.

Let your witch dry. Now bend the skirt of the witch back taping one tab to another so your witch will stand up.

Curl the arms in front of the witch and fit the tabs together. Now take a pipe cleaner, bend it and add paper shreds to one of the ends to create a witch's broom.

Fit that into the hands of your witch and she is ready for a spooky Halloween!

Happy Halloween!
Enjoy Crafting!
More Halloween Crafts
Witch Template

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Colorful Cornucopias

Today's Craft:
Colorful Cornucopias

Craft Project Directions:
To make a colorful cornucopia, first you will need to cut out a cornucopia from a piece of brown paper and arrange it on a background piece of construction paper.

Next cut out a variety of fruits to fill it up using the templates provided.

Add leaves around your design to add a fall flair and decorate!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ghoulish Ghost Puppet

Today's Craft:
Ghoulish Ghost Puppet

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper bag, white paper, scissors, glue or tape, crayons, and newspaper (if you want to stuff your ghost so it stands upright).

To begin, using the craft template cut out a ghoulish ghost figure from your white paper. Next glue or tape your ghost to the paper bag and add features with your crayons. Let your ghost dry and you will have a great puppet.

If you want to transform your puppet into a decoration, stuff the paper bag with newspaper, then square off and tape the bottom so the bag is flat. Place your ghost someplace special.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Paper Bag Monster Mask

Today's Craft:
Paper Bag Monster Mask

Craft Project Directions:
To make a Paper Bag Monster Mask you will need a grocery bag, an egg carton, scissors, tape, glue, some colored plastic bags, and markers or crayons.

To begin, place the bag over your head, feel where your eyes are and mark these spots ~ be sure to have an adult help you with this part!

Now remove the bag and cut nostril holes where your eyes will be. Next take your scissors and cut out two eyeballs (egg cup eyes) from your egg carton using your scissors. Use your markers or crayons to transform them into scary monster eyeballs. When they are decorated, glue them onto the bag.

Next draw a scary monster mouth on the bag and add other scary monster facial features with your crayons and markers.

Now you are ready to make your monster's hair ~ take your colored plastic bags and cut them into long shreds. Tape the plastic shreds all over the paper bag to create cool monster hair.

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Great Grinning Ghosts

Today's Craft:
Great Grinning Ghosts

To make this craft project you just need white paper and some crayons or markers. Print the ghost and add a delightful or scary or anything in between kind of face.

Decorate more if you wish.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Scary Spiders Spinning Webs

Today's Craft:
Scary Spiders Spinning Webs

Craft Project Directions:
Take a white paper plate and set it aside. Next take a piece of black construction paper and cut thin black lines from it. Lay the lines over the paper plate crisscrossing them to create a scary spider web.

Trim off the paper strips that hang over the edges of the plate. Next create a spider following the directions below and attach him with a ribbon or string to your web.

For your spider, take four black pipe cleaners and attach them at the center, bend each to make 4 scary looking spider legs, and bend the ends to create spider feet. Take a piece of black tissue paper and fill it with cotton balls and tape it shut to create a black spider body.

Rest and tape the body onto the legs and then add eyeballs, fangs, and other scary spider attributes.

Attach paper clip and tie on a string or secure a pipe cleaner and you have got a dangling spider.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Today's Craft:
Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft you will need: orange and green crayons, a pencil sharpener, waxed paper, an iron, an adult, and some string.

To start sharpen your orange and green crayons and collect all of the scrapings. Lay out a piece of waxed paper and first sprinkle the orange scrapings onto it in the shape of a pumpkin.

Next sprinkle the green scrapings on the top of pumpkin to make a pumpkin stem. Cover your creation with a second sheet of waxed paper.

Now ask an adult to help you iron the waxed paper (on medium to low heat) until the crayon shavings melt together. It should take between 5 and 10 seconds.

Cut out your pumpkin from the waxed paper and hang it by a string in the window.