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Skeleton Crafts – In Keeping With The Halloween Season!

  • April 9, 2010 3:21 pm
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Halloween is the perfect time for decorating your home and you may want to create Halloween crafts in keeping with the tradition. Skeleton crafts, pumpkin cutouts, witches and bats make great Halloween décor. Skeleton crafts are quite easy to make and add a special touch to the Halloween décor. Creating skeleton crafts can be a family activity and can be enjoyed by the family together. Here are a couple of easy skeleton craft ideas that the whole family can enjoy.

The easiest skeleton craft can be made with black construction paper and dry noodles. This is a very creative skeleton craft and can be crafted by even the youngest member of the family, provided he or she can handle glue. The material required will be black construction paper, lima beans, glue and dry noodles like shell macaroni, elbow macaroni, spiral noodles and spaghetti. Use the glue to stick the noodles and lima beans on the construction paper to form a skeleton. You can use the elbow macaroni to make the ribs, spiral noodles to make arms and legs and the skull can be made up of the lima beans. The lima beans can also be used to make the hips and the thorax region of the skeleton. You can make a pattern of a skeleton on the paper first and then ask your kids to glue on the various noodles and beans to form the skeleton.

Here is a complicated skeleton craft. You will need brown paper lunch bags, Styrofoam trays, a craft stick, sand, black paint and candles in glass containers. Begin by drawing a skeleton pattern with the craft stick on the Styrofoam trays, and cut it out. You can also use a knife for the purpose. Roll up the pattern in black paint and press it firmly on the inside of the paper lunch bag. Fill some sand at the bottom of the bag and place the glass containers with candles inside the bag. Light up the candles and you have a skeleton luminary. You can place a number of these skeleton luminaries along your driveway for a spooky effect. These luminaries can also be used to lead the trick-or-treaters to the treats you have in store for them.

Halloween skeleton crafts are great fun to make. Although Halloween skeleton craft decorations may be difficult to make, the possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination and creativity. Use your imagination and enjoy the Halloween season with this fun activity involving the whole family!

Skeleton Crafts – In Keeping With The Halloween Season!

4 Low Cost Halloween Craft Ideas

  • April 5, 2010 5:21 pm

There are many Halloween crafts you can make for very little cost. Some are quite popular and kids enjoy doing them over and over again. Here are some Halloween crafts I have seen done by children many times over the years:

Tissue Ghost — Take a lollipop – the large, round varieties work best.- Cover the lollipop with a tissue or two.- Tie the tissue onto the lollipop with white string or yarn.- Draw a face on the tissue with colored markers.

Halloween Placemat – - Take construction paper – Halloween colors like orange, white and black are often used.- Cut out black cats, pumpkins or Jack-O-Lanterns, spiders, and ghosts – you can use an Ellison machine if you have access to one.- Take another piece of construction paper.- Glue the cut-outs onto the whole piece of paper.- Cover the entire creation with clear contact paper.

Styrofoam Spiders – - Take a large styrofoam ball – paint it black. Leave it dry.- Once dry, glue two googly eyes on the painted sphere.- Stick black pipe cleaners into the styrofoam for the legs.

Halloween Mobile – - Take construction paper – Halloween colors like orange, white and black are often used.- Cut out black cats, pumpkins or Jack-O-Lanterns, spiders and ghosts – you can use an Ellison machine if you have access to one.- Laminate or cover all the cut-outs with clear contact paper.- Punch one hole in the laminated cut-outs.- Take a paper plate.- Decorate the plate with Halloween colors, Halloween stickers, markers or crayons. – Hole punch 5 or 6 holes around the edge.- Tie the laminated cut-outs to the paper plate with black thread or black yarn.- Hole punch 2 holes in the center of the paper plate.- Tie a piece of black string or yarn through the two holes for hanging.

There are complete books of Halloween crafts that you can purchase or check out from your public library. You can also find ideas on the internet. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have an activity for your kids to do.

4 Low Cost Halloween Craft Ideas

Cheap Halloween Decorating Ideas

  • April 2, 2010 7:21 pm

Halloween is the beginning of the first of 3 autumn through winter holidays. Halloween was originally celebrated as a day to honor the dead, held at the end of the Celtic year. The original name, Samhain, is now used to describe the autumnal equinox and harvest time in general. Many have forgotten the origins of Halloween and enjoy it entirely for the costumes and candy.

Over the years, Halloween decorating has become second only to Christmas. There are many cheap and fun ways to dress up the house that reflect the origins of the holiday and won’t empty the pocketbook. The everlasting cheap pumpkin provides endless possibilities.

Pumpkins can be carved, painted or left plain and set about the house and yard. Kids love to carve their own pumpkins. The pumpkins could be complimented with smaller cheap gourds and dried Indian corn. A harvest display of dried corn stalks is a perfect backdrop for a Halloween display and with a few adjustments can work well all the way into Thanksgiving. These are great cheap lawn displays. If carefully stored, the corn, gourds and corn stalks can be saved and used again the next year.

One of the best ways to cheaply decorate a family home for Halloween is to enlist the creativity of children. A great, kid-friendly Halloween decorating idea is the old construction paper stand-by. Cut out silhouettes of witches, ghosts and bats from construction paper for a mobile or window decoration. Paper lunch sacks can be given faces, stuffed with straw and used as the head of a scarecrow. Cut scarecrow bodies out of cheap grocery store bags or other heavy paper. Clothing can be cut out of pre-colored paper and glued to the body. Scarecrows don’t have to be scary to get into the spirit of Halloween.

Not many events can compare with the fun of a Halloween party, except perhaps the decorating. Cheap Black crepe streamers add an air of spookiness to any room. There are many styles of cheap fake cobwebs available that can be hung from chandeliers and across windows or even in trees outside. Spiders can be set on the cobwebs for added effect. Homemade headstones can be cheaply made and hung on walls and kids and parents can have fun writing creative epitaphs. Witches’ hats are easy to make from construction paper.

Truly, the only limit to Halloween decorating is your imagination.

Cheap Halloween Decorating Ideas