Seeking Creative Moms Advice

The best Halloween craft I've ever seen was from my daughter's preschool class one year. They took a roll of toilet paper, wrapped it in orange tissue paper and tucked the ends in the top hole. Then they took a piece of scrunched up green tissue paper and poked it in the top hole. The kids got to stick (I think they used sticky-back foam pieces) shapes for eyes, nose, mouth ,etc. They were SO proud of their pumpkins, and they were even happier when those pumpkins ended up in their bathrooms.

Do the "friendly" ghost lollipops...super easy. You need suckers like Tootsie Pops(you could even use the little ones), then take a kleenex, lay it over the round part of the sucker, tie a little bow with ribbon just under the sucker, at the top of the stick and voila...you have a little ghost and then they can use a skinny marker to decorate eyes. It's really cute and easy.

Get the small gord pumpkins and have them decorate with stickers/washable paints/foam halloween stickers....
run off some color Halloween sheets to give the kiddos as busy work to do while you are help some others with the craft. google halloween art crafts/ art projects on-line.
Get a tub or two of the foam halloween stickers... the kids love to stick them on blank pcs. of paper.
Halloween picture frames would be cute to decorate with halloween stickers.
good luck and happy crafting....

I just bought a kit at Wal-Mart for our kids fall festival at school, which contained 48 pre-cut foam pumpkins with all the pieces for the jackolantern faces pre-cut with sticky on the back of them. All they have to do is peel the paper and stick them on the pumpkin. It was $4.88 for the 48 of them which I though was a steal!!!!

You can find a ton of things at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. They are foam kits for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. They come in kits for multiple kids to do and EZ as well.

You can get paper plates and Orange and Black paint and have the kids paint a pumpkin and glue green construction paper on the top as a stem and tape green pipe cleaner to the back at the top for vine look.

You can get Black construction paper and white paint and have the kids dip there foot in the white paint and leave a print on the paper and then turn it upside down and YOU HAVE A GHOST! Just color in the eyes and mouth at the heel with a black perm marker.

Take card bord egg cart. paint them black and let dry. cut them into sections and then push black pipe cleaners in the sides as legs and glue a black pom pom on one side for a head and you have a SPIDER.

spiders made out of black pipe cleaners, perhaps

JC

You can make really cute pumpkins by coloring or painting paper plates and then gluing black shapes on them to make faces. Or you could cut out orange pumpkins, cut them in half, and glue them onto brown paper bags to make puppets.

Hi, J....
What about having the kids make "spider pops"? Use round, clear-covered lollipops (so you can see the colors), and use 2 halves of a pipe cleaner where the candy and stem meet to make legs. (Just wrap the pipe cleaner pieces around a few times to tighten them around so they stay up.) Then, bend the pipe cleaners to look like legs. They can draw eyes on the plastic covering with permanent marker to make it more creepy. :)

Check out: www.mycraftivity.com. It has some great simple but cute ideas for all kinds of crafts!

Hey J.,

Something I just did with my 3 year old little boy was cut out a pumpkin shape and put a little red and yellow paint on the page and let him mix it up with his hands to make the pumpkin orange. He loved watching the colors mix to make the pumpkin orange. We also glued on a couple of black triangles to make the pumpkin a jack o lantern.

This pumpkin is super easy to make and can be done in many different style fabrics. Here's the link to it:

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/crafts?page=CraftDisplay&...

Another fun one that I make every year for my daughters class and is always a big hit is the spider lollipops.

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/recipe/famf0900sp...

I hope these two ideas helped you out a little. Good luck and have fun!!

Could make pumpkin masks out of paper plates and use a hole puncher to make two holes to put string thru so they can wear them