Aug 02 2008
Easy Homemade Halloween Crafts
Halloween is a great time to get creative with homemade Halloween crafts. It’s also a fun time to involve the children and have them create their own scary creations. Making homemade Halloween crafts is a great way to decorate the home inexpensively. The best part is that you don’t usually need to go out any buy anything special.
Everything is already at home. Even very young children can get involved with the crafts and they really will love it. Choose crafts that are simple enough for them to handle and it should be fine. Just be ready to put down lots of newspaper to prevent any messes.
Egg Carton Bats
One of the easier homemade Halloween crafts is to make bats out of egg cartons. This is practically no cost depending on how fancy you want to get with the bats. Take and egg carton and cut off sections so that each piece has three egg holders to make one bat.
The two egg holders on the sides are supposed to be the wings. So cut a scalloped shape on the front and back of the side sections to create the wing shapes. Little ones might need some help with the cutting but older children should have no problem doing this part.
Make a hole in the middle of the middle egg holder so that you can later hang it up. Now paint the egg holders black. After the paint has dried, stick on eyes or use two pieces of white paper with black dots to make eyes. The children can get creative by adding fangs, glittery wings and other personal touches to their bats. String up the bats from ceilings and the inside of windows.
Invitations
Having a Halloween party? Homemade Halloween crafts include clever invitations. This is one of those easy homemade Halloween crafts that all the kids will love to do. Trace around the children’s hands onto a piece of card. The card can be any color, brown or mustard yellow for monsters, or green for witches. Silver or white can be used for ghost hands.
Stick on fingernails with scrap card and paper. Monster nails can be black or gray and square shaped. Witches nails can be more colorful and for the ghosts, silver or gray are good colors. Decorate the hands however you think monster, witch or ghost hands should look like. Write your invitation on the reverse side and hand them out, they are sure to be a hit.
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Haunted Gingerbread
1 1/2 cups shortening 375 ml
1 1/2 cups sugar 375 ml
3 eggs 3
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Thanks, cute ideas