This is a fun and relatively simple craft project to do with preschool age children. After the adult cuts the cardboard, the children can do much of the rest.
Materials needed:
Sturdy cardboard, at least 8 ½ x 11 inches
Yarn, black or dark brown
Felt, yellow, red, gray, brown
Glue
Adult and child scissors
Markers, pens or pencils
Take your cardboard and adult scissors. Look at the shape of the gorilla mask in the picture of the back ...
How to Create a Haunted Duck Pond Game
Supplies needed:
Floating ducks or other Halloween items that can float
Black sharpie marker
Snow saucer or other wide, shallow container that holds water
Black plastic or black garbage bags
Hot glue gun
Outdoor table
Water
Two prize containers (#1 toys and #2 candy)
If you have a lot of pre-schoolers, you have to do a Haunted Duck Pond! It is so easy and takes very little time to pull one together. Take a snow disc or shallow container and put it ...
How to Make a Demented Dime Toss Game
Supplies Needed:
White foam core, about 18 inches by 18 inches - available at any craft or art store (or snag a foam board used as packing if a friend bought a new appliance!)
Sharpie markers (several different colors)
Pencil
Colored Duct Tape
Bulletin board border (in fall or Halloween design)
A roll or two of dimes
Two prize containers (one for candy and one for prizes)
A t-square
optional: 1/2 inch number stickers (how many depends on how many squares you ...
This is a simple craft for even the youngest member of your clan — plus, you can use materials your probably already have around your home. Get creative and make several in different sizes or decorate the wings with glitter, sequins or even store-bought cobwebs.
Young children can participate in this craft, too! Have them trace and cut out both of their handprints and decorate the wings while you take care of the hot glue gun. Older children will be able ...
We all have a few favorite Halloween books, the ones we keep out all year on our coffee table or next to our easy chair, and would grab if the house caught on fire. These books, for whatever reason, fuel our imaginations and get us motivated to dream our next year's decorations for houses and yards. I keep some books just to look at, knowing full well I may never get around to making one project found between the pages. ...
How to Create a Scary Stump Lizard Toss Game
Supplies needed:
White bucket or popcorn tin
A stack of paper double thickness freezer bags you get from the frozen food aisle at grocery store or several packages of small brown lunch bags)
2 cans of spay paint (one brown and one red brown)
Many bottles of Elmer’s school Glue
A bag of moss from a craft store
Hot glue gun
Rubber ants or spiders
Bag of fall leaves
Mini strobe light
Duct tape
I used my same Three Stooges Paper Mache ...
How to Make a Witch Hat Ring Toss Game
Supplies needed:
Three or six tall black witch hats
Three or six 2 liter bottles, full of your favorite beverage
Decorations for the hats (ribbon, sequins or yarn)
Sacks or felt to temporarily cover the bottles
Jumbo pipe cleaners (several packs)
Halloween vinyl table cloth to set the game up on
Simple black witch hats, full bottles and seasonal trim make this a fast game to make, and the kids love it!
Decorate the hats with different ribbons; use ...
How to Make a Snake Toss Game
Supplies needed:
Three to five rubber snakes
Three to five interesting containers (Open top skulls, goblets or any Halloween container - the spookier the better).
Soda flat (cardboard box) to set the game in and decorate if you want to.
Get a handful of rubber snakes and any unusual kind of container for the kids to toss the snakes in. Here are a few suggestions for creepy containers: Open-topped skulls, baskets, and/or goblets for them to throw the ...
How to Make an Easy Coffin Toss Game
Supply list:
1/4 inch sheet of plywood to cut into coffin pieces - top and sides
Piece of plywood or Masonite for the bottom
bunch of nails, or wood screws
Cheap, blow-molded bones - available at party stores
A can of black spray paint
Two hinges
This is a really easy project and actually pretty fast to put together. You can make a toe pincher coffin at your local home building store. Our Lowe’s is outstanding for helping people like ...
How to Make a Haunted Tree Bat Toss Game
Supplies needed:
Tall, round, sturdy patio table (about 24” or slightly larger)
2 large cardboard boxes with flaps
A large stack of paper, double thickness freezer bags you get from the frozen food aisle at the grocery store or several packages of small brown lunch bags)
2 cans of spay paint (one brown and one reddish brown)
1 can of fluorescent spray paint
Black or very dark brown bottle of acrylic paint and brush for shading and outlining ...
How would you like to make your beloved Halloween night last longer, provide countless hours of fun, and even get your neighborhood behind you? Do a Haunted Carnival in your yard along with all your decorations and toss in a haunted garage to boot for a wonderful night of fun and frights!
If you’re like me, decorating your yard for Halloween is one of the most important times of the year. What I hated in years past is that I would ...
by Sarah Briggs
Cheap Halloween Decorations
I couldn't believe it! I had nearly worked myself into an early grave trying to make my Halloween party decorations, and yet the room looked so bare after I put all that stuff up! I'm talking costumed dummies, cob webs, skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, black lights and tons of jointed paper monsters of every ilk. I simply couldn't spend another dime on decorations, but I was so disappointed over how my party room looked!
You're not the only ...
Dummies are as much a Halloween staple as candy is to trick or treaters. Dummies cost nothing to make if you use an old mask and old clothes you have laying around your garage. Make one dummy for each area of your house you'll be using for your party and maybe have one or two on the front porch for your guests to walk past. Get some old clothes from every member of your family and do a dummy family. ...
Need to add some lights to your steps or room? Grab one of the black plastic kettle treat buckets and cut an 'X' in the bottom. Grab a string of colored outdoor mini lights and lay them in the bottom of the kettle. Pull the cord through the bottom of the kettle, and ta da! You now have an indoor/outdoor, eerie-looking light fixture for little or no cost.
You can really dress this idea up is you have a drill and ...
How would you like to have eerie lights coming out of your tombstone? This is easy as pie. Just follow the directions from this article until you get to the part of the gray lettering. You will have to do somethings differently for the lighted tombstones. To make the lighted tombstones you will need to cut out the letters on the cardboard box with a craft knife instead of outlining the letters with paint. After you have cut out ...
Most of us have a ton of old Halloween masks around the house that have seen better days and look like they had a great time at it. You know the ones that no one wants to wear, but you just can't bear to part with them? Well, give them new life! Throw them on a wig head, toss on a hat or sun glasses, and you have an instant decoration. You can put the masks just about anywhere, and ...
There are as many ways to make a tombstone as there is ways to make Jack-O-Lanterns. You can spend days creating one tombstone or make several in just minutes. Here is the typical quick tombstone with a twist.
Here is what you will need:
Thin, long cardboard boxes
Gray and black spray paint
Letters or stencils
Take a can of white paint and spay over any words on the side of the box generously until you can't see the letters clearly. This may take several ...
I know you are thinking - I must be nuts to suggest using paper bats as a serious decoration. I am nuts when it comes to these little beauties and just wait until you try them, and you will see why. The bats are fun and quick to make and add a lot to a room, at very little cost. You can add bats to any area of your room including your mini blinds by hot gluing them on clothes ...
My daughter is only eight, and she seems to have collected ten or more jack-o-lantern treat buckets! I was desperately searching the Halloween odds and ends box for anything I could use when I casually knocked into a stack of jack-o-lantern treat buckets. I started to push them back into the closet when I got an idea. This was just too perfect!
I grabbed five of the treat buckets that were different sizes and colors and headed to my costume trunk ...
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