"Last One Home Is A Rotten Egg!": Halloween Crafts

Halloween is one of those great Holidays, that you can make a million different crafts, or scary things to use as decorations. Even if you don't have kids, you can still use your imagination and decorate. Feel the season, feel the holiday, get into the fun of it. Re-live your childhood a bit.

Kids also learn by example, if you make if fun they will pass on the traditions on to their kids. So it is like a "Pay if forward" kinda thing. Kids, they love to decorate. So grab a kid, yours, a grand kid, or just a neighbor kid (well not that far, might get it for kidnapping) Get out your Halloween colors of colored paper. Your green, yellow, orange, black and what ever else you think you need to create a masterpiece.

For smaller kids, I call this kind of craft, a memory craft. It uses their hand print as part of the picture. And you can give these away to family members, sure to put a smile on their faces.

This one I am going to post, is going to be my first attempt at trying to explain how to do one. So bear with me..here we go..

This is the actual finished project..you can choose the bat or the spider, depending on how you position the hands.

the bat

the spider

Instructions:

You will need:

green, orange, black and white paper
scissors
pencil
glue

prepare all the pieces to be glued (I usually do this ahead a time and put each persons pieces in their own little baggie)

Trace your hands on black paper / cut them out (this is what makes it a memory project)

Take a round container and trace a circle, put two little triangles on the side near the top this will make the ears on the face. (if you forget and just cut the circle, then cut two separate triangles to be glued on later.)

Cut out eyes, nose and a mouth (can do any shape, if you little one is too little you can cut a round white circle and put inside the black circle for the head and they can just color one)

Cut a big old orange pumpkin for the back drop for the creature.

here is a picture of all the parts.

When you are ready then start to assemble. Place the hands first. > bat - they go out to the sides and for the >spider you hang them down (kinda hiding the thumbs)

****** Go to the top to pictures and see how to place the pieces..*****

We made ours and they look beautiful. So go ahead and try it.

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A great tip that I have for storing these wonderful pieces of art, especially if you don't give it away. I usually keep a few and put into a 3" binder, with the others, I take a picture of them all and start a computer disc and archive all the art work for me and the kids when they grow up.

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I have another quick craft I wanted to share, this is for the more advanced. It takes time to make and concentration, but still just as fun and turns out pretty neat. It is a mosaic project.