Halloween Crafts

Backpack/Keychain Ghost

This little ghost makes everybody smile.

You need:

  • 10" Square of White Fabric
  • Plastic Clip
  • 1" White Pom Pom
  • White Cord
  • Two Wiggle Eyes
  • Tacky Glue
  • Candy Corn (optional)
  • Scissors

Instructions:

Tie the center of a 12" piece of white cord to a backpack clip. Cut a tiny hole -- just big enough to fit both ends of your cord -- in the middle of a 10" square piece of white fabric. Feed both ends of the cord through the hole pushing fabric up to the clip. Put a dab of glue on your pompom. Put the pompom up inside the fabric, lining up the dab of glue with the cord knot. Run a bead of glue down each side of the pompom, pressing the cord along the glue. Tie the cord together at the bottom of the pompom. Let dry. Trim. Cut another 12" piece of cord. Tie it around the fabric, just under the pompom to make the ghost's head. Glue on eyes and decorate with candy corn.

Pumpkin Favors
These are great for your guests and Trick-or-Treaters!

Cut black netting into 16-inch squares. Fill with candy. Use green ribbon to tie the top. Cut eyes and mouth from orange felt and glue to pumpkin.

Halloween Mobile

You need:

  • Construction paper, white or colored. You can even use the funnies from the newpaper.
  • Predrawn stencils of a cat, bat, pumpkin, witch and ghost.Click Here for the pattern.
  • Scissors
  • String
  • Glue
  • Crayons and Markers
  • Hanger or Dowel
  • Hole punch - optional
  • Any materials lying around your home:
    Old buttons and bottle caps which can be used for eyes.Yarn or cotton balls for beards and hair. Pipe cleaners, uncooked pasta like elbows, bow ties, spaghetti, tin foil, straws, and toothpicks are always neat items to add to any project (use your imagination).

Instructions:

Cut the string into different lengths and tie to the hanger or dowel. Use construction paper to draw an outline of a Witch, Pumpkin, Ghost, Cat and Bat.(Or use the pattern provided)Color your characters from and cut them out. Gather a bunch of materials from around your home to create the eyes, nose, ears, hair and mouth for your character and glue them on. When you have finished decorating your characters, glue the character to the string. (If you'd like to use a hole punch, just punch a hole somewhere on your character, lace the string through the hole and make a knot). Tie the other end of your string to the hanger or dowel and hang it up.