Ghost Art Project
Make a sponge ghost stamp (you can use our ghost pattern). Have your children draw a outline of a haunted house on black construction paper with some windows and a door. Cut the windows and the door opening. Glue some yellow paper to the back of the window and door. Draw and cut some dark clouds and a moon out of paper and glue on dark blue construction paper. With white paint stamp ghost all around your haunted house and add eyes and mouth with a black marker.
Halloween Candy Dishes
Use inexpensive items or materials you already have around your house. Use items such as oatmeal containers, construction paper and remnant fabric and Halloween ribbon to create the med candy dishes and center pieces.
Cob webs
Put lots of fake cobwebs around the house - the more you stretch them out the more realistic they will look. Hang the fake cobweb on doorways, railings and corners . Put cobwebs on furniture that is not being used. You can decorate the cobwebs with fake plastic spiders.
Halloween Graveyard Table Decoration
Take an old white sheet and dye gray. Rip or tear the bottom edge into tatters and cover table loosely. Use a package of spider webbing until it covers the whole table and hangs over the edges of the table. Hang some plastic spiders ont the web. Get some rubber rats and place them on some old hard bread. Make tombstone place cards and make a tombstone out of an empty cereal box.
Gauze Ghost
Mix white glue with water. Dip gauze sheets into glue/water mixture and hang over soda bottle (turned upside down) and let dry. Shape gauze into a ghostly figure. When dry, remove bottle and add black eyes and mouth cut from felt or craft paper. Hang from a string or display for a spooky decoration.
Paper bag Jack-o-Lantern Lights
Only use these outside. Placed along the edge of your path leading up to the front door, they create a nice welcome for your guests.
Buy some brown or orange paper lunch-size bags. Cut a Jack-o-Lantern face out of the front of the bag. Pour a few inches of sand or soil in the bottom and open them so the sand holds the bag flat on the ground. Push a tea light candle into the sand.
Witches Hat
Print and cut witch hat pattern.
Other variation: Use black craft paper or card board and draw a circle for the brim of the hat. (See print out for brim construction). Cut circle using scissor. Cut a second circle for the crown and cut a slit from the edge to the center. Crease folds and clue on the brim of the hat. Use spider web and plastic spiders to decorate and hang on the walls.
Halloween Spooky Tree
Build a spooky tree decoration using branches sprayed with black paint. "Plant" the tree using plaster of Paris; prepared in a bucket and fill potting pot and add your Halloween spooky tree branches. Use web, plastic spiders and little glue ghosts to decorate your tree. Use elastic thread to hang your Halloween items.
Ghoulish Lamps
Buy some of these round or square cheap white Chinese paper lanterns. Cut bats, pumpkins and moons out of black craft paper and tape to the inside of lampshade and replace light pulp with a orange light pulp.
Sparkling Pumpkins
Pumpkins become instant glamorous Halloween decoration with glittery stems and some halloween ribbon. Choose a pumpkin with a long stem. Wash and dry the pumpkin. Use paintbrush to apply glue to the stem and sprinkle with glue with glitter while still wet. Let dry. Place nice halloween ribbon around the stem. Curl if desired.
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