Halloween Crafts: Pumpkins and Ghosts

The girls think Halloween is so much fun. It's spooky, it's dress up, trick or treating, and candy. I also want it to be remembered as a time for fun creative crafts.

Simple Cut Out Pumpkins

Materials

Orange construction paper

Black construction paper 

Scissors

Glue

Directions

1. Draw a shape of a pumpkin on orange paper
2. Using scissors, cut out  the pumpkin shape. Kids be careful!
3. Draw your eyes and nose, be creative. I just used triangles because it was a last minute idea. 
4. Using glue, glue your face pieces to the pumpkin cut-out

I let the girls glue and place the shapes on their own. I had to do some adjusting, but they were proud of they did it on their own! My girls also insisted on placing their pumpkins on our spider web decor.

Ghosts

Materials

Old white t-shirt

Cotton balls

Pipe cleaners

Black permanent marker

Small safety pins

Ribbon or string

Scissors

Directions

1. Using an old white t-shirt and scissors, roughly cut out a piece about the size of your two hands, it doesn't have to be perfect
2. Place about 3-4 cotton balls in the center of your cut out t-shirt
3. Wrap the shirt over the cotton balls and using the piper cleaner as a neck base. You will need to trim the piper cleaner and wrap it carefully to tuck in the sharp edges
4. Puff up and poof out the head of the ghost
5. Using permanent marker, make a scary face
6. To hang your ghost, safety pin the top of the ghost's head and then tie a ribbon or string to the safety pin

Happy Crafting!