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Paper bag pumpkin. Take a lunch bag size paper bag and crumble-up some paper to put inside. Tie the top with string leaving about 2 inches of space at top. Paint the bottom portion with orange tempra paint and the top brown (for the stem). Copy a leaf pattern on green paper and let them cut it out-glue or staple it to base of stem. If you'd like, you can wrap green or brown pipe cleaners around stem for vines. Also, you can give them different pieces of tiny black shapes to glue on to make a jack-o-lantern.

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Use Elmer's glue and put a big dab of it on waxed paper. Roll around until you have a shape like a GHOST. Then let dry. Punch a hole on top and put in colored paper clips to make a chain (for kids to wear). Add two black dots for eyes.

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For a three dimension and a beautiful mask you can blow up a balloon( medium size) and cover the balloon with paper mache. After when balloon is fully covered have children decide what they what the head to be. You can also introduce Mexican/African/Chinese cultures that celebrates the art of mask making. have children's paint the mask and decorate it with yarn, beads, glitter and sequins. When project is done than you have to pop the balloon. The mask would remain in the same form because of the paper mache. This project can take about a week or more. It can be very messy also. I have done this project with children ranging from 4- 18 years.

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Use regular white school glue and do a glob of it and let it run down a little. Add a couple of beads for eyes. Let dry. Now punch a hole in the top to string for necklace, or put pin on the back for a pin to wear.

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Ghost Painting/Prints Paint child's bare feet with white paint. Let child step onto black piece of construction paper. This will look like a ghost and it will be their foot prints. When the prints are dry allow the children to glue some googly eyes onto their ghost foot print. It is a great activity for the teacher the child and great art work for the parents to save and reminisce.

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Spider Print- Have the children make a fist. On the palm side of the fist paint it black and let the child stamp their painted fist onto a piece of white paper. Open the fist up. Paint all the fingers but the thumb! Let child put the finger prints on either side of the fist print. (this is the legs) Using their thumbs let them place two thumb prints on the spider. They have created a great holiday art project that not only they will love but the parents can keep to remember their little hands.

Date: 11-6-99

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Use black paper plates or have children paint them black. Give children googly eyes and wrinkled construction paper legs. Let them glue their eyes and legs onto the plate. Punch a hole and hang from the ceiling.

Date: 10-31-99

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Pumpkin faces On a real pumpkin, let the children draw funny faces with WASHABLE markers. Wipe off with a damp paper towel and draw again. My children love this and will do it over and over again.

Date: 10-31-99

Here is a fun idea that I used with the two-year-olds in my Mommy and Me class.
First, go out and buy several packages of WHITE dryer hoses. The kind that goes from your dryer to the vent outside. Count out 9 rings on the dryer hose and cut it with a strong pair of scissors. Fold the cut dryer hose around so it looks like a pumpkin and staple the two ends together. Let the children paint their pumpkins with orange paint. Finally, make a stem from rolled up brown paper bags. HAVE FUN!

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Spiderwebs: Cut black construction paper to fit inside a round cake pan (or you can use a square or rectangle pan and cut a circle out later). Place the paper in the pan. Dip a marble in white paint and place in the pan. Let the children tip the pan back and forth so that the marble rolls, making a paint trail that looks like a web. You can sprinkle with glitter while the paint is wet. My preschoolers loved making these. We also glued a plastic spider to the webs. Great for Halloween or an insect theme.

Date: 10-17-99

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Cut out a "gingerbread man" shape on white poster board. Have the children paint it with watered down glue. Let children rip strips of tissue and place them on the man. Add two black construction paper eyes and you've got a great looking mummy.

Date: 10-14-99

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one milk jug with lid for each child. Put orange tempera paint in each jug, screw the lid on tight and shake until jug is covered. Remove lid and let dry. Add black construction paper eyes, nose, and mouth to the outside of jug. You can also let children use yellow paint to simulate a light on by painting the inside of the eyes, nose, and mouth. Screw lid on and add a green construction paper stem to lid with glue

Date: 10-14-99

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Cookie Cutter Bubble Painting Mix liquid bubble soap or dish soap and water with tempera paint in Halloween colors. White works well for ghost shapes on black paper. Use Halloween cookie cutters to dip in bubble/paint mixture and then onto paper. The bubbles will pop and leave a spooky shape.

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Haunted House Cut out haunted house shapes and let children put face at the top of several large lima beans and glue onto the house, they love this. I use it in my class every Halloween!! They can use a white crayon to make the windows in the house!!! Everyone likes spooky houses!!

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We cut and/or tear black and orange construction paper scraps into small sections. Then we glue them to a sheet of yellow paper along with Halloween confetti. I try to find larger shaped confetti so it is easy for them to pick up and add to the collages. They love it-scissors, glue and confetti all in one project!

Date: 10-26-98

Cut out a pumpkin shape and a ghost shape with a jagged edge. Glue the ghost over the pumpkin stem. Next make a little boo sign for the side of the art work. I use this with my three and four year olds.

Date: 10-25-98

Halloween or Little Miss Muffet Spiders Need: Styrofoam balls, black pipe cleaners, wiggle eyes, tiny orange pom pom ball, "Design Master" Spray Paint(flat black), black yarn,brass fasteners.

Spray Styrofoam balls in advance with spray paint. Cut each black pipe cleaner into 3 pieces. Give each child a black Styrofoam ball, eight pipe cleaner pieces, an orange pom pom nose and two wiggle eyes. Children insert 8 pipe cleaner legs into ball, and glue on nose and eyes. You may want to provide "tacky glue" for eyes and nose. Attach a length of black yarn into the top of each spider with a brass fastener. Hang from the ceiling.

Name: Snooky
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Marvelous Pumpkin faces can be made by having your little ones cut out eyes, nose and mouth from a magazine ad in order to decorate paper bag pumpkins or handdrawn jack-o-lanterns.

To make these beautiful jack - o - lanterns, stretch a wire hanger to make a circle, push down the wire so it will lay flat on a surface (do this ahead of time). Place the hanger onto one side of a regular full size sheet of orange tissue paper, assist children in painting glue (with a small brush) along the inside and outside edge of the hanger, using black paper add facial features & glue them on, fold the tissue half that is remaining over the glue and press to adhere the edges. I add a green strip with the child's name at the hook part of the hanger and hang them in the windows!! Trust me, the families love them & if you suggest they store them in a shirt or pizza box, parents can enjoy them every year!

Name: Cheryl
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Get an empty toilet paper roll or paper towel roll. Cut eight parts to it going up just high enough that you can bend them a little. Dip in black paint and you will have a spider. Use googlie eyes to finish.

For spiders, trace the hands (with fingers spread) of pre-schoolers onto black construction paper.Cut the thumbs and glue the body (palms) together. With a white crayon,make eyes and a smile. For Ghosts, trace the footprint and turn to where the heel is up. Draw eyes for the ghost at the top.

Name: Heather
E-Mail: glovex4@swbell.net

We made the neatest spiderwebs ever!!! Using a small roundcake pan, place a piece of black construction paper inside pan to cover bottom, place small amount of white tempra in the middle of the paper. Have the child take a marble and place in the pan and roll in the paint numerous times. Real fun!!! Just remember to wash the pan immediately:-)

Have children make a cylinder shape from the white contruction paper. Punch two holes, one on each side, thread ribbon through and tie for handle. Have children draw two eyes and a howling mouth (Bingo markers are really good for this) attach black and orange streamers and you have a spooky Halloween windsock.

Name: cathy
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Spooky Halloween Tree

On Butcher paper or large white paper, draw a black, gnarled tree. Have each child in your class paint his/her hand in white paint, place on tree fingers pointing down, after all the ghosts have dried allow each child to draw a spooky face on their handprint. Nice classroom decoration.

Name: Beth
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This idea is out of the Family Circle Easy Holiday Crafts issue. Cotton Swab SkeletonTake a black peice of construction paper and 11 cotton swabs. Six of the the swabs need to be cut in half. Make a skeleton head and let little ones make the face on it then using white glue on the swabs begin crafting your skeleton. One whole swab from the neck down, to form the spine, five of the half swabs on either side of the spine make the ribs, two more whole swabs then make the legs,with the other half swabs for the feet. then add the other two whole swabs for the arms. Write names with white chalk or crayon. My kids love this.

Per child, you will need- 1 Paper Plate, One Sheet of Orange Construction Paper, One stem shape cut out of Brown Paper, One leaf shape cut out of green paper, scissors and glue. Have the child take their scissors and cut the orange construction paper in to pieces. Then, glue the orange pieces on the paper plate and glue the stem shape and the leaf shape. This project is great for children still learning how to use scissors because they can't make a mistake!

I cut apart an egg carton giving each child a slot. (The place where the egg goes.) Then I let them paint it all black and let dry. The next day I give them eight short pieces of black pipe cleaner and let them poke them into the egg carton. It comes out looking just like a spider! Ahead of time I buy bags of the fake cobwebs and then let them hang their spiders on them around the room! Great Halloween decorations!

Get a white plastic grocery bag and cut in circle. Put cottonballs in center and wrap bag around. Tie a long thread around neck and attatch to a stick. Draw face with marker. The kids love to run around flying their ghosts, making scary noises. They rattle nicely too.

give each child a balloon and show how to get paper covered with flour mixture. Putting the balloon in a cereal bowl helps hold the balloon from rolling over. when dry have them paint the pumpkin orange. you could then either have them draw a face on or if you want you could cut out the eyes, mouth, and nose and a hole in the bottom and a hole in the top put it over a votive candle and you have a pumpkin to keep always.

Name: Jennifer
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This is similar to Jenna's idea with the footprint ghost. We traced the kids' feet on white construction paper, and drew ghost faces on the heels with marker. Then we cut them out, punched holes and hung them with string. We ended up hanging ours from the ceiling fan, and now they are "flying!" We are also thinking of making mobiles with the ghosts.

Cut a piece of cardboard into an octagon. Using white glue or that fabric paint with the squeeze tip bottle top, draw a spider web onto the card board and outline with lines of glue or fabric paint. When dry, you will have a raised-lined spider web. Show the children how to clip an octagon of paper onto the cardboard and use a crayon on it's side to rub over the paper. The web will rub through. Using an ink pad, show the child how to stamp a thumb print for the spiders abdomen and a finger print for the head (talk about how spiders have 2 bosy parts). Add a fine tip marker so the child can draw 8 legs. Those plastic flies can also be glued on for the spiders dinner.

Using white coffee filters and a eye dropper...take red and yellow dye made from food colouring. Let the children alternately drop on the two colours to make orange. For jack-o-lantern features, older children can cut and paste construction paper eyes, nose, mouth. For little tots, add features using permanent marker before they begin.

Make a cut out of a ghost on black construction paper and place in an old oatmeal canister with one tsp. white tempera and marbles and shake . makes really cute spooky ghosts. we mounted ours on fun foam and added glitter and a magnet to make a spooky fridge magnet!!!

Put a paper plate in a pie pan and give the student a small dab of black paint. You can also paint a paper plate black and do the activity with white paint to look more realistic. After the small dab of paint is placed on the students plate, drop a marble in and let the child move the pie pan in all different directions to make a spooky spider web. After it has dried, punch a hole in the plate and attach a plastic spider ring or sponge paint a spider in the web.

Use white paper to form 5 paper chains, and then connect to make a skeleton. Trace children's hands and feet on white paper, cut and glue to the ends of the arms, and legs. Cut an oval shape and draw on the face. These work best when made with small groups of children. Hand around the classroom for spooky decorations!

Using runny black paint, allow the children to use a straw to blow the paint across the page to make a spider's web

Have the child draw a ghost outline on a piece of waxed paper, and then have them fill in the outline with white school glue. Dry overnight, and then have the child add facial features. Place on a string and you have a spooky ghost necklace.

Have the children tear off a wad of the quilt batting. Have the children form the "ghost" any way they want. Next, have the children cut eyes, legs, arms, etc. etc. from the construction paper and glue onto their ghost. Finally, cut some of the elastic and tape to the top of the ghosts and hang them from the ceiling. The kids love to watch them bob up and down!

Check out your local grocery store, Michaels, Trader Joes, or Ben Franklin craft store to find pasta in halloween shapes. Let your kiddo's create a cool collage with the pasta and whatever else you decide to add!

Buy an assortment of halloween cookie cutters. Let the children dip the cookie cutters into paint and then press them onto paper. This makes really cool prints!

Check out your local grocery store, Michaels, Trader Joes, or Ben Franklin craft store to find pasta in halloween shapes. Let your children string the pasta shapes on a piece of yarn to create a necklace or bracelet.

Here's a fun art activity I do before Halloween. I only do this with 2 children at a time during center time. Have children take off one shoe and sock. One child sits in the chair and the other child paints the bottom of that child's foot with white paint. When the bottom of the foot is covered, have the child stamp is foot down on a piece of black construction paper. Have a tub of warm soapy water nearby and a towel for the child to wash his/her foot off. Then the children switch. When the pictures dry, I let the children put two stickers on for eyes (or holes punched from a hole puncher or googly eyes). The heel part of the footprint is the ghost's head. It's really cute and it's such an unusual art project that my kids remember it for the whole year!

Have the children crumple up newspaper and stuff their paper bags so they are 1/2 full. Twist the unstuffed part of the bag and tie at the bottom to make a stem. Let the children paint their pumpkins. When they are dry, the children can draw faces on them.

Buy several small, fresh pumpkins. Cut them in half. Let the children dip the pumpkin halves into paint to make prints.

Have the children dip the spaghetti into the glue and arrange the pieces onto the wax paper. When the spaghetti dries, carefully peel the "cobweb" off of the wax paper. Hang from the ceiling.

Dilute the white glue with 1/2 to 3/4 cups of water. Let the children dip a piece of cheese cloth into the diluted glue. Have the children drape the wet cheese cloth over the 16 oz cups. Let the "ghosts" dry for two days. Carefully remove the cup from the hardened cheese cloth. Let the children decorate their ghosts. Hang the completed ghosts from the ceiling.

Mix equal parts of flour, salt, and water in a large bowl. Pour the mixture into squeeze bottles. Give each child a black paper plate or a piece of black construction paper. Let the children squeeze the white puffy paint onto the black paper. When the puffy paint dries, it will look like glittery cobwebs.

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