Some of the following crafts need adult supervision while a glue gun is in use. Please read through the instructions entirely before making the crafts with very young children. The crafts below are intended for decoration excluding the spider puppet. The spider puppet is for children five and up because of the stick. If your students or child can be responsible when playing with something pointy like this, it may be given to a 3 or 4 year old.
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| My version of this craft has an inner support and a stand. |
A Shredded Paper Pumpkin Craft: My version of this old craft includes tubes and a stand for support so that it may be stored and kept from year to year without it getting smashed. Just wrap it in tissue and store it alone or with things light weight in nature. If you've measured the necessary lengths of the tubes in advance, this project can be made for students in first grade and up.
Supply List:
- orange, brown and green construction paper
- wooden or cardboard one inch diameter circle shape
- black marker
- white school glue
Step-by-Step Instructions for The Pumpkin:
- Roll lengths of tube using paper or cardboard to make both the inner support of the pumpkin shape and the stem of the pumpkin. You can do this step before or after you cut the strips for the pumpkin. The inner tube for the pumpkin should measure a couple of inches shorter than the length of the strips, so that the tips of the strips can be bent and glued to the top and bottom of the inner tube. This is how the shape of the pumpkin will be kept in place.
- Cut strips of orange construction paper 1/2 inch wide, all equal in length.
- Cover the inner tube with orange construction paper to "hide" it from view.
- Glue each strip's ends to both the top and bottom of the inner tube.
- Glue the wooden or cardboard circular disk to the bottom of the woven pumpkin. this will help the pumpkin to stand on it's own.
- Glue on the stem, after covering it with brown paper.
- Draw vein details with a fine tip marker, onto the stem.
- Cut a small green leaf to glue to the top of the pumpkin. Add veining on this if you prefer.
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| Left, pictured are the tubes rolled from cardboard to give the "shredded paper pumpkin support. Right, see the gluing process. I'm firmly pressing the paper ends on top of the tube. |
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| Left, I bent a few of my strips without the tube between in order to determine the length of tube that I would need for support between my strips of orange construction paper. Right, here you can see the end result after I have randomly "woven" the orange strips above and below the inner cardboard tube. |
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| A cute little ghost peers through the window. |
The Ghost In The Window Craft: A simple preschool/kindergarten level craft for Halloween.
Supply List:
- 6 wooden craft sticks all the same length
- two googly eyes
- white school glue
- white and black construction paper
- brown acrylic paint
- ghost template below
Step-by-Step Instructions for The Ghostly Window:
- Glue four wooden sticks together in the shape of a square.
- Glue a cross piece on top of the square and wait for the glue to dry.
- Print out the ghost in the window template, cut it out and then trace around it on top of white construction paper.
- Glue the little ghost on top of black paper and paste on it's google eyes.
- Then paste the ghostly view to the back side of the wooden window frame.
- Paint the window frame brown.
A Black Batty Candy Container: You will need the following supplies for the bat: black construction paper, two googly eyes, the paper template for it's wings and one recycled toilet paper roll. Any child in Kindergarten through third grade will enjoy putting this project together for friends and family.
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| The back side and front sides of the cardboard tube candy container shaped like a bat for Halloween. |
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| Left, recycled cardboard tubes. Center, painted tube for the bat body of the candy box. Right, tracing around the wing template for the black batty candy box. |
Step-by-Step Instructions for the Candy Holder:
- Paint a recycled paper toilet roll solid black.
- Print out the template for the batty wings from below.
- Cut the template and then trace around it on top of a black piece of construction paper.
- Cut out the wings.
- Pinch one sides' end of the paper tube shut. Use glue to make this permanent. You may need to use a clamp to hold this in place till the glue dries.
- Hot glue the googly eyes in place near the top of the candy container where the bats head would be.
- Pinch together the bat's pointy ears on opposite ends of the tube. This will create a crease in the cardboard while you are working.
- Apply a bit of shaping along these creases to "make" the closure for the candy box.
- Slip in some candy corn or wrapped candies into the tube shaped box if you prefer. Searve up this super sweet, batty box treat at a Halloween party!
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| The assembled recycled ghosts with curled paper trim. |
Recycled Paper Ghosts: Paper recycling craft intended for early learning students through second grade. They will learn how to cut, trace, curl and paste!
Supply List:
- white school glue
- white recycled papers
- black marker
- small scissors
- two ghost templates (below)
Step-by-Step Instructions for The Paper Ghosts:
- Print the templates from below on white paper.
- Cut long white paper strips and glue these to the backsides of the cut ghost bodies.
- Take a pair of child scissors and curl the ends of the strips.
- Use a black marker to make silly faces on the ghosts heads.
A Pom Pom Spider Stick Puppet: The supplies you will need for this craft are: two pom poms- one larger than the other, two googly eyes, one 6-12 inch wooden dowel, hot glue and gun and black construction paper. If making this with a young student, use store bought pom-poms. If your students are older, have them manufacture the pom-poms themselves.
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| Steps for assembling a pom-pom spider puppet. |
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| Steps for making your own pom-poms. |
Step-by-Step Instructions for the Spider Puppet:
- Cut cardboard disks like the ones pictured above and wrap black yarn through the hole and around the shape.
- Trim the pom-pom off the card.
- Knot the clippings together tightly according to the illustration.
- Make two pom-poms, one slightly larger.
- Glue a wooden or cardboard disk to the end of a dowel or chop stick.
- Then glue on eight tiny paper spider legs equally distributed about the disk.
- Hot glue the larger pom-pom on top of the disk and legs.
- Hot glue the smaller "head" pom-pom to the end of the larger.
- Hot glue on the google eyes.
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| Above are five ghost templates and one bat candy container wing. Three of the ghost patterns are shown above. The templates for paper ghost chains will be covered in a later post and linked back to this sheet of patterns. |
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