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Fun and Easy Hand Print Halloween Crafts For Kids

  • April 25, 2010 10:21 pm
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These kids hand print Halloween crafts are great for a spooky good time. These ideas are easy, quick and inexpensive and make a perfect activity for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten children. Of course, even us “bigger” kids will have a blast making these fun projects. With just a few simple craft supplies, some orange, black and other spooky colored paints and paper you can make several items to hang up for some fun decoration. Wear appropriate clothes for these as it can get messy. This first hand print craft is a spider. Although spiders can be a bit scary these adorable hand printed spiders won’t be too scary for the kids to make.

This first hand print craft is a spider. Although spiders can be a bit scary these adorable hand printed spiders won’t be too scary for the kids to make.

  • Card stock or construction paper (any color but black)
  • Black tempera or poster paint (or even dark purple and red make a cool spider)
  • Paintbrush
  • Googly eyes
  • Glue
  1. Using the paint brush, completely cover your child’s palm and four fingers. Don’t paint the thumb. Use black paint or the color your child selected for their spider.
  2. Next have the kids press their hand firmly on the paper spreading their fingers slightly.
  3. Now paint their other hand all except the thumb.
  4. Have your child press that hand down on the paper, overlapping the first hand print and making sure the fingers are across from the ones in the original print. This will form the spider’s body and 8 legs.
  5. The kids can fill in any spots with the paint brush or use their fingers to spread the paint in the gaps. Let this dry completely before the next step.
  6. Now it’s time to add some eyes. You can use paper cut outs or add some fun wiggle eyes. Just glue these in place and you will have a creepy, crawly spider craft.

Here are some fun ways to add to your Halloween craft.

  • Add some glitter glue to make the spider shiny and scary.
  • Take some pom poms and cut little pieces to create a fuzzy fur for the spider. Spread the glue around your spider and then gently press the pom pom pieces in place.
  • You can dress up your spider with some fun Halloween stickers as well.

For this Halloween craft idea you will want black paper and white paint to really let your ghost show. This is yet another great Halloween craft idea for toddlers and even younger kids but even big kids love making this one.

  • Black card stock or construction paper
  • White tempera or poster paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Googly eyes
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  1. Using the paint brush, completely cover your child’s entire palm, fingers and thumb with paint.
  2. Now have them press their hand on the paper firmly with fingers slightly spread apart (not too wide).
  3. Fill in any gaps with the paintbrush or their fingers.
  4. Once the paint is dry, glue on some wiggle eyes at the top of the palm area. Cut out a mouth using black paper and glue this on below the eyes.

The fingers become the bottom of the ghost making it look like a torn up sheet and is just too cute to be too scary.

Here are some fun ways to add to your Halloween hand print craft.

  • Instead of using wiggle eyes and paper, use black paint to draw on the face and eyes. Make them large and wiggly for a fun look to your ghost.
  • By some spider webbing and stretch this out. Then spread glue around the ghost and gently lay the webbing over the glue. Once the glue is dry, cut away any excess webbing.
  • Try adding some white glitter to your ghost. Spread some glue around and then sprinkle on the glitter.

Another really fun alternative to this hand print Halloween craft is to make it a footprint ghost. Kids will love how it tickles when you paint their foot. Of course it goes without saying that you want to start with clean feet so have a bucket of water and towel handy so all the kids in the class can clean up first.

Fun and Easy Hand Print Halloween Crafts For Kids

Window Treatment Decorating Ideas For Halloween and Christmas

  • April 9, 2010 3:21 am

A good way to decorate your kitchen windows is to liven them up with a theme for occasions like Christmas or Halloween.

At Christmas time a fun way to decorate your kitchen window and bring some Christmas cheer into your kitchen is to drape some coloured lights around it. You could either have them around the border of the window or taped in a design of your choice on the window itself.

You can buy special stick-on flashing light ornaments to place on your windows as well. Or a wreath hung from the curtain rail so it sits as a centrepiece in the middle of your window also looks appealing at Christmas time.

An economical window treatment decorating idea is to use that snow spray to create some Christmas shapes on the inside of your window – they really add some Christmas cheer or you could try hanging some snowflake ornaments from the curtain rod at various heights.

For Halloween you can stick some of those owl, black cat, pumpkin and ghost removable decals you can buy in your window. You can get the kids involved and do a project together making paper cut outs or felt cut-outs of Halloween objects and have those hanging by some twine from the curtain rod.

You can also hang some orange colored lights around your kitchen windows or put chunky orange candles along your window sill. Its best not to light these though, just use them for the decorative effect.

Nothing spells Halloween like a carved pumpkin so if you have a wide enough window sill or can place a shelf or table up against the kitchen window, you can place a carved pumpkin with some small tea candles sitting in it or to be safer you can buy those battery powered lights that flicker just like a candle, so you have a glowing pumpkin that can be seen from outside your window.

Another great window treatment decorating idea for Halloween is to place a small branch across the window and have a felt cut-out silhouette of a witch sitting on it, and add some felt or decal owls and a moon to enhance the effect.

Window Treatment Decorating Ideas For Halloween and Christmas