| Painting&Drawing | Play Dough/Clay | Collages | Crafts |
| HOME | ||
| SPORTS | ||
| BIRTHDAY IDEAS | ||
| ART AND MUSIC | ||
| OTHER ACTIVITIES | ||
| GAMES AND CRAFTS | ||
|
||
| ACTIVITY SHEETS | ||
| DAY CARE | ||
| SUMMER CAMPS | ||
| COMMENTS | ||
| LINKS |
HALLOWEEN ARTS and CRAFTS
|
|||||
| Baby pumpkins. Find a few round stones in your yard, and wash them. Suggest to your child to color them with an orange acrylic paint. When the paint is dry let him paint the pumpkins' faces. |
 |
||||
| A paper spider. Cut or let your child cut out of black construction paper: one or two 1.5-2 inch circles (the spider's body) and eight 3 inch long, 0.25 inch thick legs. Glue the legs to the circle or glue the legs to one circle and glue another circle over it. Cut eyes and the mouth out of red paper, and glue them to the body. Bend all the legs in the middle and 0.25 inches from the end.You can tape this spider to the window or to the wall. Make a few of different sizes. |
|||||
 |
|||||
| Painting of a pumpkin. Show your child a few pictures of jack o lanterns or show him a real one if you have it. Ask you child to paint it. Use green or light blue construction paper. First paint the orange pumpkin, and paint the eyes, nose and mouth with black or dark blue after it dries. Draw a twig with a crayon. |
|
|||||||
 |
Bats. Trace a print-out onto the black sheet of construction paper. You can cut it out yourself or let your child do it depending on your child's age. Also cut out two little red dots out of a red piece of paper. Glue the red eyes to the bat. Fold the wings. You can use these bats as window or wall decorations with the help of some scotch tape. |
 |
||||||
 |
||||||||
| Bat garland. Cut out of a black construction paper a few bat shapes (print-out). Bend their wings. Get a thread and a Scotch tape. Attach a bat cut-out to thread with a piece of tape. Use 4-5 cut-outs. |
||||||||
| Paper bag ghost. 1. From a print-out: Let your child cut out 2 white ghosts (or do it yourself), then draw their faces and glue them to the both sides of a lunch bag. Hang it by a string. 2. Using white acrylic paint let your child paint a ghost on both sides of the lunch bag. Once they've dried paint their faces with a dark blue or black. Hang the bag by a string. |
||||||||
 |
||||||||
| Pumpkins. Trace a printed out pumpkin shape onto a sheet of orange construction paper. On a blue or brown or other dark sheet of paper, draw a few triangles (the pumpkin's eyes and nose) and a mouth. Let your child cut all of these pieces out and glue them to the orange pumpkin. You can also cut out an orange pumpkin yourself and let your child to draw the pumpkin's face. |
 |
|||||||