Halloween crafts made from household items (like baby food jars and cardboard tubes) with simle hoousehold items you already have in your craft supplies.
Eek Jar-o'-Lanterns
Supplies:
Instructions:
1. Paint inside of a jar with colored paint, and paint the lid black.
(Paint coating should be translucent enough for light to shine through.)
2. Draw a spooky face with black paint or black marker.
3. Add a safe LED light to create the spooky glow.
- *Canning jars
*Acrylic craft paint
*Energizer LED battery-powered votive
Instructions:
1. Paint inside of a jar with colored paint, and paint the lid black.
(Paint coating should be translucent enough for light to shine through.)
2. Draw a spooky face with black paint or black marker.
3. Add a safe LED light to create the spooky glow.
Wicked Witch's Hat Bag of Treats
Supplies:
Instructions:
- *Black construction paper
*Colored construction paper
*Ribbon
Instructions:
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1. Trace a 10-inch dinner plate on a piece of black paper. Cut out the circle, and set aside.
2. Cut a semicircle out of a piece of 8 by 10-inch black paper, form into a cone, and secure with glue. (3 to 4 inches in diameter.)
3. Place the cone in the center of the larger circle and trace. Then cut “tabs” in traced circle.
4. Glue cone over traced circle, and bend “tabs” inward. Decorate with colored paper. Attach a 12-inch piece of ribbon to each side.
Ghastly Recycled-Can Mummy
Supplies:
Instructions:
1. Cut 3-inch strips of cheesecloth, then glue one end of each to the side of a can. Wrap, secure with glue, and repeat.
2. Glue on two buttons to create eyes.
3. Fill can with gummy worms.
- Empty metal cans (be sure top edges are smooth, not jagged)
Cheesecloth
Buttons
Gummy worms
Instructions:
1. Cut 3-inch strips of cheesecloth, then glue one end of each to the side of a can. Wrap, secure with glue, and repeat.
2. Glue on two buttons to create eyes.
3. Fill can with gummy worms.
Terrifying Tube Monsters
Supplies:
Instructions:
1. Cut the tubes to desired height and paint.
2. Create faces by adding buttons.
3. Glue straws topped with pom-poms to create the monsters' “antennae.”
4. Decorate with stickers, feathers, golf tees, rickrack, and construction paper. (Make it easy by pre-cutting construction-paper eyes, mustaches and mouths, and let your child glue them on!)
- Paper-towel tubes
Craft paint
Buttons
Straws
Pom-poms
Stickers
Feathers
Golf tees
Rickrack
Construction paper
Instructions:
1. Cut the tubes to desired height and paint.
2. Create faces by adding buttons.
3. Glue straws topped with pom-poms to create the monsters' “antennae.”
4. Decorate with stickers, feathers, golf tees, rickrack, and construction paper. (Make it easy by pre-cutting construction-paper eyes, mustaches and mouths, and let your child glue them on!)
Eerie Milk Carton Haunted House
Supplies:
Instructions:
1. Cover the carton with newspaper. Cut two sheets of black paper into rectangles to make roof, then add scalloped shingles to each side.
2. Fold a 3-inch strip of paper into a 3-D rectangle to create the chimney. Cut a slit in the center of two opposite chimney sides, then attach to the peak of the roof.
3. Cut small rectangles out of black paper to make the door and windows. Add smaller yellow rectangles to each window, then add desired colorful accents to the windows and door.
4. Cut ghost shapes out of white paper, and attach to a pipe cleaner. Place the pipe cleaner in the chimney.
- Half-gallon milk or juice carton
Newspaper
Black, yellow, and white construction paper
Pipe cleaner
Instructions:
1. Cover the carton with newspaper. Cut two sheets of black paper into rectangles to make roof, then add scalloped shingles to each side.
2. Fold a 3-inch strip of paper into a 3-D rectangle to create the chimney. Cut a slit in the center of two opposite chimney sides, then attach to the peak of the roof.
3. Cut small rectangles out of black paper to make the door and windows. Add smaller yellow rectangles to each window, then add desired colorful accents to the windows and door.
4. Cut ghost shapes out of white paper, and attach to a pipe cleaner. Place the pipe cleaner in the chimney.
Chilling Spider Web
Supplies:
Instructions:
1. Wrap white string around an embroidery hoop, overlapping in a crisscross pattern as you go. Glue string ends to the hoop.
2. Glue two pom-poms to each plastic spider, and attach them to the web.
3. Add a string to the hoop and hang.
- Embroidery hoop
White string, 2 yards
Plastic spiders
Colored pom-poms
Instructions:
1. Wrap white string around an embroidery hoop, overlapping in a crisscross pattern as you go. Glue string ends to the hoop.
2. Glue two pom-poms to each plastic spider, and attach them to the web.
3. Add a string to the hoop and hang.
Spooky Paper Spider Piñata
Supplies:
1. Fill black paper lantern with small treats, and tape black tissue paper over the top and bottom holes.
2. Cut 16 strips of crepe paper, each 20 inches long.
3. Sandwich an 18-inch piece of floral wire in between two strips of crepe paper, and glue together. Cut eight circles out of the remaining crepe paper.
4. Glue each crepe circle to an end of each strip to make “legs.” Next, glue each leg to the spider body.
5. Cut two large circles out of white card stock, then two smaller circles out of orange card stock. Glue white and orange circles together, then add a black button to each “eye.”
6. Attach eyes to spider, add a cord, and hang. For tiny crafters under the age of 3, replace buttons with black pom-poms to create eyes and avoid potential choking hazards.
- Black paper lantern
Black tissue paper
Black crepe-paper roll
White and orange card stock
Buttons
Floral wire
1. Fill black paper lantern with small treats, and tape black tissue paper over the top and bottom holes.
2. Cut 16 strips of crepe paper, each 20 inches long.
3. Sandwich an 18-inch piece of floral wire in between two strips of crepe paper, and glue together. Cut eight circles out of the remaining crepe paper.
4. Glue each crepe circle to an end of each strip to make “legs.” Next, glue each leg to the spider body.
5. Cut two large circles out of white card stock, then two smaller circles out of orange card stock. Glue white and orange circles together, then add a black button to each “eye.”
6. Attach eyes to spider, add a cord, and hang. For tiny crafters under the age of 3, replace buttons with black pom-poms to create eyes and avoid potential choking hazards.
Boo Baby Food Jar Bats
Supplies:
1. Paint jars and lids black.
2. Cut two identical scalloped wings and two small triangles, or “bat ears,” out of black paper.
3. Cover the edge of the wings and triangles with glue, then sprinkle with purple glitter.
4. Glue two buttons to the front for eyes, wings to the back of the jar, and ears to front of the lid.
- Empty baby-food jars, labels removed
Black paint
Black construction paper
Purple glitter
Buttons
1. Paint jars and lids black.
2. Cut two identical scalloped wings and two small triangles, or “bat ears,” out of black paper.
3. Cover the edge of the wings and triangles with glue, then sprinkle with purple glitter.
4. Glue two buttons to the front for eyes, wings to the back of the jar, and ears to front of the lid.
Creepy Paper-Towel Pumpkin Garland
Supplies:
1. Cut a paper tube into 1-inch sections, and paint orange. Once dry, make a hole in top and bottom with a hole punch.
2. Cut pipe cleaners in half, and fold each. Push ends in one hole, leaving a loop at the top.
3. Once through the second hole, bend open to secure. You'll have a 1-inch looped “stem.”
4. Cut a leaf out of green paper; glue to the top of each pumpkin.
5. String rickrack through the pumpkin “stems” and hang.
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Paper-towel tubes (one paper-towel tube makes 11 pumpkins)
Orange paint
Orange pipe cleaners
Green paper
Orange rickrack
1. Cut a paper tube into 1-inch sections, and paint orange. Once dry, make a hole in top and bottom with a hole punch.
2. Cut pipe cleaners in half, and fold each. Push ends in one hole, leaving a loop at the top.
3. Once through the second hole, bend open to secure. You'll have a 1-inch looped “stem.”
4. Cut a leaf out of green paper; glue to the top of each pumpkin.
5. String rickrack through the pumpkin “stems” and hang.
Ghoulish Trick-or-Treat Cans
Supplies:
1. Measure the height and circumference of the can, then cut a rectangle the size of your can out of wrapping paper.
2. Paint the can with a thin layer of Mod Podge, and cover the outside of the can with the paper rectangle.
3. Cut spooky shapes out of black construction paper and glue to front of can, then finish with a coat of Mod Podge.
- Empty paint cans
Wrapping paper
Mod Podge
Black construction paper
1. Measure the height and circumference of the can, then cut a rectangle the size of your can out of wrapping paper.
2. Paint the can with a thin layer of Mod Podge, and cover the outside of the can with the paper rectangle.
3. Cut spooky shapes out of black construction paper and glue to front of can, then finish with a coat of Mod Podge.
Floating Phantom
Supplies:
Instructions:
Drape cheesecloth/lace in the desired shape and spray it with starch to make a haunting ghost that looks like he's drifting off the floor—spooky!
- Spray Starch
Cheesecloth or Lace
Instructions:
Drape cheesecloth/lace in the desired shape and spray it with starch to make a haunting ghost that looks like he's drifting off the floor—spooky!
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