Halloween Projects - EaSY

Halloween Finger Puppets

Make some fabulous finger puppets for Halloween. This is a fun project which is rated as easy for 6 years and upwards. The puppets can be a funny or ghoulish as you want them to be, and this is a fun group project – perfect for having friends over to make some together!

If you are holding a children's Halloween party, these puppets make great party favours and you can get the children to each make their own. Estimated time needed around 20-30 minutes including clean-up.

You will need:
• Patterns (downloaded)
• Art paper in white, black, orange, purple, and green
• Scissors
• Pens, pencils and paints
• Glue stick
• Decoration pieces
• Tape

How to make & decorate your puppets:
1. Print the downloadable patterns
2. Cut out the patterns and draw round them onto the art paper. Use white for the Ghost and
  the Mummy, black for Cat and Vampire, orange for Pumpkin and Green for witch. Cut out
  the individual finger puppet shapes.
3. Use your pens, coloured pencils, paints and decorative pieces to decorate each puppet.
  You could draw the bandages on the front of the Mummy and give it eyes and mouth, draw
  black lines on the pumpkin to make it look like it's been carved, draw faces on the ghost,
  vampire, witch and the cat.
4. Draw and cut out pieces of different coloured art paper to decorate the witch’s hat and
  dress and a vampire’s purple waistcoat. Use the glue stick to stick them on.
5. Once the puppets have been decorated, wrap the section at the bottom around your child’s
  finger for sizing. Remove from finger and either glue or tape them together to form a 'finger
  sized' tube.

Thought !
If you are using this project during the party it would be a good idea to cut out the puppet shapes ahead of time so that your guests only have to decorate them during the party. When they have completed their puppet, make sure they write their name on the back.

Creepy Crawly Spider Bracelets

A great twist on an old favourite children's pastime of tracing around their hand. This Halloween twist uses their hand and fingers to make their own personal creepy crawly spider wristband.

You will need:
• Black art paper
• Wiggle eyes
• Scrap of white paper (for fangs is required)
• Paper fastener
• Tape
• Scissors
• White crayon
• Glue
• Pencil

How to make your creep crawly spider wristband:
1. Fold black art paper in half.
2. With your child's hand palm down on the folded edge of the paper – so the thumb is not on the paper, trace around the fingers with the white crayon.
3. Cut around the traced outline of the fingers.
4. Unfold. You should have a spider with eight legs. Using the pencil, gently roll each of the back of each of the legs so that they curl under.
5. From the remaining black art paper cut a strip to form a small tube for the wristband. Size on the child making sure they can get it on and off and seal with tape..
6. Attach the bracelet to the underside center of the spider using the paper fastener and tape to smooth out.
7. Complete your spider by gluing on the wiggle eyes and fangs cut from the white paper scrap.