Handprint Bat

Here’s what you’ll need: black and blue construction paper, scissors, glue, google eyes, scissors and a pencil.

Trace your child’s hands and cut them out.  Normally I try to have Hailey do the cutting, but I knew this would only cause frustration so I did the cutting.  Then glue the hands onto the blue construction paper.

Add eyes.  (By the way, I have no idea why those shoes are on the table!)

The finished bat.

Spider Activities

We did several spider activities last week and I wanted to get them all posted before Halloween, so I decided to just post all of them in one post.

Spider Web:

Here’s what you’ll need- paper plate with slits cut in the sides, tape, 3 pieces of yarn about 3 feet long, and a spider.

Tape the yarn to the back of the plate and then weave the yarn in and out of the slits cut in the plate.  When you get close to the end of the yarn tape it on the back of the plate and start another piece of yarn.  Add the spider on to the last piece of yarn.

The finished spider web.

The Very Busy Spider:

Here’s what you’ll need: paper, gray crayon, marker, stamp pad and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

Use your crayon to make a rubbing of the spider web.

Stamp your finger print onto the paper.  Add some legs.

The finished spider web.

Spider Craft:

Here’s what you’ll need: black paint (or if you don’t have it- do like I did and mix some dark colors together), glue, piece of egg carton, pom pom, pipe cleaner and something to paint with.

Mix the colors together to try to make the paint look black.

Paint the egg carton cup.

Add the pipe cleaner for legs, glue on the eyes and nose.

The finished spider.

The Cutest Scarecrow

We made this scarecrow and it turned out sooo cute!!

Here’s what you’ll need: we used scrapbook paper for his shirt, construction paper for his face, his buttons, his nose and the crows, part of a cardboard box for his hat and stake (we colored the stake black).  The green stuff for the grass is actually a few pieces cut off of a cheerleading pom-pom.  (Although you could just use tissue paper).  His hair is a few little pieces I took off of the top of some Indian corn.

Glue everything together.

Isn’t he the cutest scarecrow you’ve ever seen?  ;)

Easy Pumpkin Painting

Rather than just painting a pumpkin I thought it’d be fun to do it a little bit differently.

You’ll need: a cookie sheet (I covered it with aluminum foil to make clean up easier), red and yellow paint, sponge, pumpkin shaped paper.

Mix yellow and red paint together to see what happens.

Then put your pumpkin down on the paint and press.

Our finished pumpkins.  You could add a face to your pumpkin too if you wanted to make a jack-o-lantern.