A Quick Halloween Project

I wanted to do something new for Halloween this year. These simple pumpkin and ghost candle holders that I saw at a friend's house were the perfect thing.  Luckily, we have a closet filled with art supplies and recycled items so this morning I was able to grab 18 glass jars, white, orange and black tissue paper and white glue.  I cut the tissue paper into little squares and the kids used watered down glue to cover the jars with the tissue paper.  They then cut out the facial features from little squares of black tissue paper.  I can't wait to put battery operated candles in them tomorrow, turn off the lights and tell our "scary stories"  (we LOVE telling "In a dark, dark woods..." with very scary voices). 

Last year I blogged about more than a dozen wonderful halloween projects that we do at our school. Check out that post here.

Monsters!

Boo! Spooky Ghosts

 The director of my Nursery School has always done the most amazing projects with our kids. Every holiday, I still pull out decorations my children made with her (some are over 20 years old!)  Lots of her ideas are found on this blog.  This week I thought I put up some of her Halloween crafts. These ghosts are really easy but SO cute.  Each child is given a meat tray and a big piece of foil that they form into a shape.  The important thing is that the top is rounded.  They then use a second piece to make arms that stick out the side.

Its very easy to work with the foil and it doesn't have to be perfect. The arms are just one crumpled up piece that is pushed into the back of the foil body.

  They are then given a piece of cheese cloth that has been dipped in fabric stiffener.

The kids drape the cheese cloth over the foil.  It looks really good if the material sort of drags off one side.  After the fabric dries (it takes at least a day), the foil is carefully removed (usually by a teacher...just crumple the foil tighter to pull it out) and a permanent marker is used to add a face.  They are really spooky because you can see right through them.

Thanks Joanne!

Simple Monsters

Today we made fun monsters by blowing paint with a straw.    We used liquid water colors but I think that any paint would work well.

When the monsters dried we added mouths with a permanent marker and google eyes (lots of google eyes :).  Simple, but very cute!