31 Days Series: Day 27

 Ghosts Treat Holders

This is about as simple as it gets...yet still super cute!  Great to have at parties to hold some goodies or to give as a Halloween teacher gift.  I got these pots at Wal-Mart for $1.50.

Supplies:

-small white plant pots (or paint another color pot with white paint)

-black permanent marker or paint pen

Directions:

1.  Using your marker or paint pen, draw two eyes and a mouth on the pot.

2.  Optional:  draw on a pink bow to make it a girl ghost :)

31 Days Series: Day 10

 Monster Hands

This is snack you may remember making when you were a kid.  I remember making it back in elementary school.  This is an easy idea for kids to make and enjoy after school or to have or make at Halloween parties.

Supplies:

-clear plastic gloves aka "lunch lady gloves"

-popcorn

-candy corn (5 per hand)

-twist tie

Directions:

1. Put a piece of candy corn (with the point in first) in each finger of the glove.

2.  Fill the glove up with popcorn, but not too full so you can close it up.

3.  Put a twist tie on so the popcorn won't fall out.

Not sure if you can see but the hands have a Halloween ring on the ring finger.  They are cheap...you can get a whole bag of them at the dollar store.  Great little addition if you will be having these at a party.

I found these "gloves" left over from my teaching days so we used them but the clear gloves will work just fine!! You will actually be able to see the candy corn "fingernails" better with clear gloves.

31 Days Series: Day 5

 
Mummy Juice Box

Parents, for younger children, make this craft ahead of time and serve it to them with their lunch. (My 4 year old did this but with me helping her quite a bit.)  I got a four pack of juice boxes and the wiggle eyes at Dollar Tree, we had the construction paper and glue sticks.  So total cost was $2 and the wiggle eyes will be used in several of my Halloween crafts.

Supplies:

-juice box (1 per mummy)

-white construction paper

-black construction paper

-wiggle eyes (2 per mummy)

-glue stick

Directions:

1. Remove the straw from the juice box.

2.  Cut a small square (depending on the size of the juice box) from the black construction paper.

3.  Glue the black square onto the front, top part of the juice box.

4.  Glue two wiggle eyes onto the black construction paper.

5.  Tear the white construction paper into strips.

6.  Glue the strips all around the juice box covering all but the wiggle eyes and the hole in the top where the straw goes.

7.  Enjoy with lunch or snack.

**Make sure kids don't squeeze the juice box or they will have a wet mummy :)

These were the smaller juice boxes

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Adapted from:  http://crafts.kaboose.com/juice-box-mummy.html

31 Days Series: Day 4

 Egg Cup Treat Holders

Parents can make this craft for a special after dinner treat for younger children. Kids ages 4 and up can make it themselves (with a little help).  You can paint them whatever colors you would like.  My kids wanted to do white for a ghost, green for a witch or Frakenstein, black for a vampire, orange for a pumpkin, yellow for a glowing candle, and purple for a monster. As far as cost of this craft:  buy your next carton of eggs in a cardboard carton, you can get tissue paper, paint and wiggle eyes at Dollar Tree, you probably already have scissors and glue. So the biggest expense would be the candy, which isn't going to set you back too much.  You might even have some you've already bought...it's hard to resist all that yummy stuff every time you go grocery shopping :)

Supplies:
-cardboard egg carton with the cups cut apart
-paint in Halloween colors
-tissue paper in Halloween colors
-scissors
-glue stick 
-wiggle eyes (2 per cup)
-small Halloween candies (M&M's or Reeses Pieces or candy corn work great)

Directions:
1. Trim egg cups with scissors so they will have a neat edge.
2. Cut 3 inch squares from tissue paper.
3. Paint egg cups in Halloween colors and let dry.
4. Use glue stick to put a dab of glue in the center of a tissue paper square.
5. Glue side facing downward gently press center of tissue paper into center of the inside of the egg cup.
6. Glue two wiggle eyes on each cup. (if glue sticks don't hold them, try using white glue)
7. Fill with small Halloween treats.

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 Idea from:  http://crafts.kaboose.com/egg-cup-treat-holders.html