Easy Hallowe’en Crafts for Kids

Stuffed Mummy Hand:
Take a transparent latex glove, put a candy corn in the tip of each finger, then fill with popped popcorn. Tie with an orange ribbon and attach a spider ring to the ring finger.

Mr. Pumpkin Head:
Instead of carving all of your pumpkins this year, simply insert Mr. Potato Head parts to make funny jack-o-lanterns.

Pipe Cleaner Spiders:
Take 4 black pipe cleaners and twist in the center, giving you 8 legs. Bend each leg in at the knee, and out at the foot. Use tacky glue or a hot glue gun to attach googly eyes to the “body” in front.

Edible Haunted House:
Cover a pint-sized milk carton with graham crackers using frosting as the glue and place on a foil-covered paper plate. Attach creepy Halloween candy and black or orange frosting to the outside to decorate. Try cotton candy for spider webs!

Spooky Balloons:
Get colored balloons at the party store and use permanent markers to decorate pumpkin faces, monsters, or ghosts!

Pumpkin Seed Jewelry:
Roast pumpkin seeds, then using a needle and dental floss, sew strands of pumpkin seeds together for a fun edible necklace or bracelet.

Jack-o-lantern Eggs:
Dye hard boiled eggs in a mixture of red and yellow food coloring with vinegar added, to make them orange. Use markers to add features.

Skeleton Bones:
Using several inexpensive “ridgy” paper plates, draw and cut out bone shapes including a skull, rib cage, and hip bone. Use brads or staples to attach the bones to form a skeleton and hang.

Spider Web:
Soak some white yarn or string in a mixture of half glue and half water. Lay the glue-soaked string on waxed paper in a spider’s web design and let dry. When dry, peel off of the waxed paper and hang. Put a plastic spider on the web for an extra effect!

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