Supplies needed:
Black construction paper
Elmer's glue
white chalk
Q-tips
I had each child trace their own hand with the white chalk on the black paper. I then showed them how to draw a line with the glue and lay the q-tips on top of it, to make it look like the bones inside our hands. They really liked this! I did have to cut a few with the kitchen shears, but L discovered that if he bent the q-tip twice, they snapped right where he needed it to be. These look nice and creepy for our Halloween display, and they were really easy!
Tracing hands
The kids were really excited that these really did look like bones in the hands!
Welcome to Day 4 of the Hoosier Horror Blog Hop! Today's project was something that I came up with totally on my own. I think this turned out great, and I plan on doing it with the kids next year as well, to see how things change.
Today we are using a fun supply called bleeding tissue. How appropriate for Halloween, no? This is not your normal tissue paper that can be found in the cards section of the store. This is a special kind of tissue paper meant to "paint" when wet. This can be found at most art supply stores. We used it before on an Earth day craft!
Supplies needed:
white construction paper
bleeding tissue
spray bottle with water
pencils
black Sharpie Markers
scissors
markers
googly eyes
You will want to lay down some paper or towels over your work surface. This stuff will stain the table. I put down some pages torn from a magazine. I told the kids to rip shapes from the tissue paper and place around their white construction paper. You want it to be somewhat covered. When they were done, carefully spray the paper with water. We let this dry overnight. Next I gave the kids another piece of paper, and a pencil, and told the kids to design their own monsters. This was neat to see what they made. I had them cut this out, this will be used as a stencil. The next day, we removed all the tissue paper from our pages, and traced our own monster stencils with the black Sharpie marker. We cut our monsters out and set to decorating them. I had googly eyes of all sizes, and markers of all different colors. D even got out a bingo stampers to give her monsters spots/chicken pox. These little guys are now hanging up next to our dinner table!
Welcome to Day 3 of the Hoosier Horror Blog Hop! I hope you are enjoying these posts as much as I have enjoyed getting them ready for you all. This post was inspired by a banner that Organize Your Stuff Now did last year. I had pinned it last year with all intentions of doing it, but time got away from me. This year, I had a quiet morning to myself, and motivation with this blog hop, to get it done. Originally I had intended on making this day's post about our fall bucket list, but realized that I did the exact same post already last year. Oops!
This was a fun craft for mommy, but the kids could easily do this one as well. In fact, as soon as the kids came home from school, they noticed it right away. D even was sad when I didn't have her do the craft, so it looks like I may have 2 of each of these by the end of the week.
Supplies needed:
ruler
pencil
scissors
glue stick
green, white, black, orange, and brown construction paper
markers (I used Sharpies)
I first decided which characters I wanted to make. I knew that I had to have a ghost, Frankenstein's monster, and a bat. The original post had made these as triangles, but I liked the rectangle better. I made mine 5"x7". There really are not any other instructions other than cutting out the shapes you would like for each rectangle, and gluing them all together. For now, I just used a small bit of masking tape on the back of each character and taped them directly to my "mantle" shelf. I think of the next week, I will transfer them to some yarn and string it up under the shelf. I may add more as the month goes on, we shall see.
Welcome to Day 2 of the Hoosier Horror Blog Hop! Today we are talking about a super easy but fun craft! Chalk drawn fall leaves!
This post had been inspired by an Inner Child activity that she did a while back, but I put my own spin on it. While shopping at United Art and Education for some Art Smart supplies (more on that later), I saw this great little book by Dover of leaf stencils for under $2! I just knew we needed to get it. There are so many things we can make using this. While, on the drive back home, I got to thinking. Why not use chalk and the stencils and make a similar page to Inner Child's.
Supplies needed:
white construction paper
fall leaf stencil (if you can not find this, you can either make your own using photos printed off the computer, or real leaves!)
q-tips
chalk in fall leaf colors
This craft is a very simple and not very messy craft. I had the kids sit at the dinner table, and pick out a leaf stencil. I showed them how to trace the leaf, using the chalk, and leaving a thick line. Now using the q-tips, just make straight lines from the chalk line out. It will give it a nice smudgy look to it. It took the kids just a bit to get the hang of using enough chalk to create this look. But both kids really had fun. They were amazed at how it looked when we were all done. These pictures are now hanging up and decorating our entry hall walls.
First off I want to say welcome and thank you! I am participating in my first ever blog hop this week! I am linking up with the Hoosier Horror Blog Hop for this entire week. Check back every day to see a fun new fall/Halloween craft from me!
This first craft was something I had wanted to do last year, and just never got around to it. I have looked at a footprint version of this on Pinterest before, but thought hands would be just as cute. The kids and I made candy corn hand prints before dinner the other day. This is a quick, simple, easy, and little mess sort of craft.
Supplies needed:
manila construction paper (we used white and black and it just didn't show up all that great)
orange, yellow, and white washable paint
paintbrushes
small dishes for paint (I used a cut up egg carton)
baby wipes
I started by showing the kids where on their hands to paint each color. With the white I showed them to paint up to the 2nd knuckle lines, orange from the base of the palm to where the thumb connects, and the yellow in between. I tried this first myself on the black paper. It worked alright, but the orange hardly shows up. Then we tried this on the white paper, and of course it is hard to see the white paint. I think if you used a tan or manila paper, it would work best. I let the kids go ahead and paint their own hands for the first time. I figure at 5 and 6 and with all the hand painting we have done in this house, why not! We let them dry on the bathroom floor while we ate dinner (only place easy to clean and out of the way). I then cut them out and had the kids glue them to a black piece of paper, just to make them stand out a bit more.
We finished the night with some stories, and with leaf cookies. On Friday, I had started to help with D's kindergarten class. Once a month on a Friday, parents get to come in with a special sweet treat to share, and read a favorite book to a small group of kids. I asked D what type of book I should read and what kind of cookie I should make. Her response was, "It has to be a book about fall, and the cookies need to be leaf shaped with orange icing". So that was just what I did ;-)
Supplies out and ready to go
(Like my crazy painted table? Adam did that over the summer.)
See how both the black and the white paper had pluses and minuses?
