Halloween Recipes and Crafts for Kids

Nutter Butter Ghosts

Dip the nutter butter cookies in melted almond bark or melted vanilla frosting and place 2 mini chocolate chips on for the eyes while still wet. These turn out into real cute ghosts.

Oreo Black Cats

Materials:

* Oreo cookies
* Candy corn
* M&M’s
* Red licorice string
* Black tinted frosting.

Place the M&M’s on the Oreo for the eyes use the frosting to glue them in place. Place the candy corn on the top of the Oreo to resemble ears use frosting to hold in place. Make a red licorice mouth and whiskers and attach with frosting. You can use a chocolate chip or a brown or black M&M for the nose and attach with frosting.

Halloween Pumpkins

These pumpkins are made out of plastic clothes dryer hose. They turn out real cute.

Supplies needed:

* Dryer hose
* Orange spray paint
* Green felt
* Fake fall leaves
* Tacky Glue
* Green spray paint
* Cone shaped styrofoam
* Small wiggly eyes
* Small black pom pom
* Green pipe cleaners

1) Cut off section of dryer vent and make into a circle gluing the two ends together. (So you have a nice size pumpkin)

2) Spray paint the dryer vent orange (let dry)

3) Spray paint the Styrofoam green for the stem (let dry)

4) Curl the green pipe cleaner around your finger. Put a little glue on the pipe cleaner and place on top in center hole of pumpkin. Place glue on Styrofoam stem and press down into center on top of pumpkin.

5) Cut two green leaves out of felt and place on top of pumpkin.

6) Glue additional fake fall leaves to the bottom of the pumpkin (it then looks like it’s sitting in a pile of leaves.)

7) Glue wiggly eyes to the black pom pom and glue on green leaf on top of pumpkin.

That’s it! You now have a real neat looking centerpiece. With the ruffled dryer vent it really looks like a pumpkin.

Ghost from juice can lid

Spray paint the lids white. Provide the girls with hammers and nails, and have them punch four or five holes along the inside of the rim, trying to space them out evenly, if possible. Provide a rough piece of board underneath for the nails to punch through. Turn lid over and with the hammer, gently tap the sharp edges down. Safety first!

Tear strips of white muslin or old bed sheets into strips and using a pen or screwdriver, push the end of the strip through from the front to the back. No need for glueing…the rough edges of the lid will catch into the material and it will stay quite nicely. Punch another hole at the opposite end (top) and attach string or yarn for hanging. Glue on huge googly eyes and you have a ghost! You can also use markers or paint to create ghostie features on the face.

Ghost pin

Take a cotton ball, put a safety pin thru the back,glue 2 eyes on. You have a simple pin.

Spider pin

* 1 black pom pom ball,
* 1 smaller purple pompom ball. ( any color is fine, but this is the sizes and colors that we had.)
* 2 pipe cleaners cut to make small spider legs.
* 1 safety pin.

Glue the two pom pom balls together. Glue the eyes on the smaller pom pom Hot glue gun ( leader does this ) the legs on the bottom of the larger pom pom… Shove the saftey pin through the bottom and you have a cute little spider pin.

Halloween Little People Ghosts

Materials needed:

* one empty 2 ltr. bottle
* two pieces of PVC pipe in 12 to 13 inch lengths
* masking tape.
* one 6″ styrofoam ball
* Pair of toddler shoes
* Pair of toddler pants
* Square of white fabric roughly 24″ x 24″
* Black felt for eyes
* Small plastic pumpkin basket with handle

Holding the two liter bottle upside down, securely tape the PVC pipe to form legs. Wrap the tape around several times. Pull the pants of the legs and body securing with rubber bands at the “waist”. Hot glue the inside of the shoes and insert the PVC pipe. Hot glue the styrofoam head to the flat side of the upside down bottle. Hold in place until glue dries. The doll should be able to stand. If not, adjust the tape. Drape the square white cloth over the “head”. Cut eyes from black felt and glue on. Sew the plastic pumpkin basket to the front of the ghost.

Fake Hand

Take a plastic glove that would have been in the first aid kit. Fill it about 2/3 full or slightly less with bird seed and tie the wrist part with a couple of good knots. paint red finger nail on the glove and you have a fake hand ready to set on the edge of goodie plates or in candy boxes whatever to give a fright.

A dangling spider

With an adult’s help, use a ballpoint pen to poke a hole in the bottom of a film canister. Thread yarn through the hole, and make a large knot at the end inside the canister. For legs, cut four 7-inch-by-1/2 inch strips of felt. Spread glue around the inside edge of the canister lid. Place the legs on the lid (over the glue) so that their centers overlap in the middle. Squeeze glue around the open edge of the canister, then push it hard into the lid. Make eyes from paper (or use googly eyes), and glue them on. Hang your spider by the yarn or make him dance along the floor. If you’ve done this right, the film canister should be closed up, with the lid at the bottom and the legs between the canister and the lid.

Yarn Pumpkin

You need a round balloon, orange thread and white glue to start. Cover your work area with newspaper. Inflate a ROUND balloon and tie it closed.

Wind a large amount of orange yarn or heavyweight crochet thread around your hand. Squeeze white glue all over thread. It should coat the thread. In one hand, hold the thread end and the knot of the balloon. With your other (thread-covered) hand, wrap the thread around the balloon, unwinding it from your hand as you go. If you need more yarn, repeat the steps. The effect should appear airy and open.

When done, set the balloon in a cup. When the glue has dried, pop the balloon. (Overnight or several hours) An orange thread pumpkin will be left.

To make a stem, glue green paper onto an empty thread spool. Glue the stem on top of the pumpkin, pressing down a little. For vines, bend green chenille sticks around threads on the pumpkin then wrap the ends around a pencil.

Cut facial features from felt. Glue them on the pumpkin.

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