Simple 5-10 minute Halloween Crafts

I LOVE Halloween. From October on it's nothing but Holidays!  Here are some cute and simple crafts to use as decorations and keepsakes. I have most of these all the way back to 2006 When Hannah was a year old. It is so cute to see how much she's grown over the years.

Pumpkin Patch

What you'll need:

* Construction paper in your choice of color
* Orange and Green paint
*Paint brush

Paint your childs fingers (from finger tip to knuckle) in orange paint. You can do all four fingers or just two. Have your child "stamp" their fingers onto the page.  repeat until you think you have enough pumpkins. Using a paint brush and green paint let your child add the stem.

Ghost feet

What you'll need:

*White piece of paper
*markers

There are many variations of this craft. This one is still my favorite. Trace your childs foot onto the piece of paper with a black marker.  Add eyes and mouth to the face of the ghost (the heel is the head of the ghost). Let your child add whatever decorations (pumpkins, full moon, tombstones, etc..)
VARIATION:
You'll need: White paper, scissors and white sewing thread.
Trace your childs foot on the white paper, let them add the face. Cut it out and add a white string at the top and hang it from the ceiling.
VARIATION 2:
You'll need: black construction paper and white paint.
Paint your childs foot white & stamp it onto the black paper. Let it dry. Add face and mouth.

Crow

What you'll need:

* Construction paper (black, orange and hat color)
*scissors
*glue stick
*google eyes

Trace your childs foot and both hands onto black paper. Cut them out. Glue hands to middle of foot for wings (see picture- sorry it's sideways I haven't figured this out yet!) Glue google eyes on and add a triangle orange piece for his beak. The hat is optional. It's just a top hat.

Egg carton spider

What you'll need:

* Egg carton (one piece) painted black (I would do this the day before)

* google eyes

* 4 black pipe cleaners

* piece of string

* scissors

* glue

After you've painted the egg carton black and let it sit over night, punch six holes (three on each side) with the sharp end of the scissors. thread the pipe cleaners through the holes to make the legs. Add a hole to the top & put a piece of yarn in to let the spider hang from it.  glue on google eyes. For some reason of another, Hailey needed to add flower sprinkles to her spider. She was 3 at the time and we didn't exactly ask questions.

Spider Hands

What you'll need:

* Black construction paper

* google eyes

*scissors

*glue

*markers

* Glitter pens (optional)

Fold a black piece of paper in half. Trace part of your childs palm and four fingers (not their thumb). Cut out and unfold the paper. This is your spiders body. Add google eyes (Hailey decided she wanted a big eye to make her spider scarier) and a mouth. You can let the kids glitter the legs if you want. We didn't have any glitter this year (imagine that!).

Bat

What you'll need:

*black construction paper

*White paint

* google eyes or two small eyes out of paper (you'll need a pencil if you choose paper)

*stapler

*glue

Paint both of your childs hand with white paint. Have them stamp their hands (thumbs touching) onto the black paper. Let it set for a couple of minutes before cutting it out. Roll up a small piece of black paper (the size of a toilet paper roll) and staple the roll onto the hands covering the thumbs. Glue on google eyes or paper eyes.

Skeleton Pasta

What you'll need:

*Spare pasta shapes
* Black construction paper
* glue
* white crayon
*google eyes

On black construction paper using your white crayon, draw a skeleton : a circle, body and ribs (he does not need to be perfect) Let your child glue the various shapes of pasta to create the body. Add google eyes



Paper Plate Jack O'lantern

What you'll need:

* A paper plate for each child painted orange (do this one day in advance)
* Black Construction paper (cut into triangles for eyes, nose & a mouth shape)
* A Green Stem (construction paper) 
*Glue Stick

Once you have the orange plate, have your child glue on the eyes, nose, mouth and stem to make a Jack O'lantern