We had our first set of Halloween craft days yesterday. We were expecting 22 kids so we had to come up with a way to make things move smoothly. We set up different stations and had the moms move with their children to each station. There were 5 different crafts to do, for different skill levels. These ideas came from all over the place. Some were from The Mailbox, teaching magazine. I have been picking these up from the library for preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade just to get some new ideas!
The first was just simply drawing pictures on black construction paper with yellow and white crayons. Even the youngest can do this one!
Next up, coffee filter bats. I got this idea both from Frugal Family Fun blog, and Kaboose web site. Use washable markers in purple, brown, grey or black. Color the coffee filter, and "paint" with water over what you colored. It gives it a water color type look. Let it dry. When it is dry, fold in half, cut points in the non-folded half, and wrap a half of a black pipe cleaner around the middle.
This one is from my co-organizer Amanda! She picked up black plates and cut slits all around. Next we wrapped grey or white yarn around the plate to make a spider web. The kids could then attach a plastic spider ring to the web!
We were going to do candy corn sun catchers, but with the amount of kids we were having we felt this would be easier. I drew a candy corn shape on some white computer paper. I then ripped orange and yellow construction paper in pieces. The kids glued the pieces to the shape. Very easy for kids of all ages to do.
This is one I got from The Mailbox. We cut 8's out of black construction paper, and 8 legs for each one. We got to talk about how sipiders have 8 legs. Then we added 4 eyes to each one. I think this one was one of the favorites!
This one was also from Amanda. She made a copy of different leaves and cut them out. The kids then colored each leaf. We cut the middle out of some paper plates we had left over from the group picnic. The kids then glued their colored leaves around the outer rim of the plate.
