Free Halloween Crafts
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Coming up with free Halloween crafts for you and your kids to make is not that difficult, depending on the supplies you already have in your house. Here are some ideas for taking things you might already have in your crafts stash or in your kitchen and making them into great free Halloween crafts.
Egg Carton Crafts
One of the first things I think of when I think of free Halloween crafts are egg cartons. The little egg cups are the perfect size and shape for making into creepy crawly spiders and bugs.
Adding pipe cleaner legs and googly eyes to a painted egg cup can make a spider, ant, fly, or just about any other kind of insect you might want hanging around your house during the Halloween season.
Using two additional egg cups, with one side trimmed off, makes wings for an egg carton bat. It's fun to see what kinds of creatures your kids can come up with.
Paper Plate Crafts
Paper plates are a wonderful "free" craft supply all year long, but there are some free Halloween crafts that are especially fun to do with paper plates.
Again, you can make a lot of insects and creepy-crawlies using a paper plate as the body. But you can also make all sorts of cool masks for your kids, depending on the different color of plates you have and the way they decorate them. You could even print out pictures from the Internet to paste to the mask and have your child color in.
Another fun thing to do with paper plates is to make Jack o'lantern cutouts. Simply draw the face on your pumpkin plate and cut it out with scissors. This is a lot safer than using a real pumpkin but it's still fun. Make these out of small paper plates and you can secure them around a votive candle holder for a similar effect to the candle in a pumpkin.
Paper Bag Crafts
Grocery sacks can be made into all sorts of costumes and free Halloween crafts. Just turn the bag so the open end is at the bottom, cut out arm holes and a head hole, and decorate with whatever you child likes.
He or she could be a deck of cards, just about any kind of animal, even a sack of groceries! This might not be a costume your child actually wants to wear trick-or-treating, but it's still a lot of fun to come up with different ways you can decorate a paper sack to make it a costume.
You can also cut shapes out of a paper bag to be used as part of a costume. For instance, you could make a cowboy hat out of a couple of paper bags. Cut out a big oval shape out of two bags,, turn them blank side out and staple together from the inside. Add a brim but cutting out a big circle, then cutting a smaller circle inside to make room for the head. Decorate however your child likes.
Garbage Bags
Garbage bags make very easy ghosts. Just put some newspaper in the bottom to make a head, use string or yarn (even a twist tie!) to close off the head, turn it head side up and give it a face made from construction paper if you like. These fun ghosts are a great way to decorate inside or out because they are somewhat weather resistant.
The dark-colored lawn bags could also be used for this purpose, or to make a landscape in your yard to plant gravestones (made from old cardboard boxes) in. Newspapers or a tarp can be used to make "hills," then cover them with trash bags and use tent spikes to secure them in place.
Paper Crafts
Of course there are a million free Halloween crafts to be made out of construction paper. You can cut out pumpkins, witch hats, ghosts and other shapes to decorate a wall or door. Make paper chains out of black and orange paper. Use white, orange and yellow paper to make paper candy corn, and decorate a paper goody bag to hold your treats.
Cut out masks, draw pictures, print out coloring pages from the Internet and make your own Halloween coloring book. Wrap a votive candle holder with construction paper, or decoupage paper onto the holder to make a cool glowing candle craft for very little money.
Once you start thinking about all the supplies you already have in your house, you'll have no problem coming up with even more free Halloween crafts for you and your kids to make.
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Cool ideas.
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