October is a Spook-tacular time for Halloween fun and fantasy!
Summon your little goblins for a creatively creepy craft this season – a simple activity bewitching enough to captivate every unique personality! Use recycled cardboard tubes and simple art supplies to spend quality time with your child. You’ll work together to make unique characters that will spark their imagination and provide hours of creative play. From mummies and monsters to pumpkins and beyond, the possibilities are endless. Cutting, gluing, and drawing faces builds motor skills and helps with precision and coordination. The real magic? The creations come alive through storytelling and pretend play. A funny hand puppet friend emerges. Pumpkin people decorate the mantel. Dangling bats hang delightfully overhead. With each craft, little hands are busy with learning opportunities and creating special keepsakes. This activity combines creativity, skill development, and most importantly…family time – the perfect ingredients for an enchanting autumn adventure.
Materials:
– 4 toilet paper rolls
– Paint: orange, bright green, and ivory
– Construction paper: green, glitter red, black, and white
– Toilet paper
– Medium-sized googly eyes
– Sharpie
Instructions:
Jack-O-Lantern:
1. Paint toilet paper roll orange.
2. Cut the eyes, nose, and mouth out of black construction paper and glue on.
Frankenstein:
1. Paint toilet paper roll bright green.
2. Cut the eyebrows and mouth from from black construction paper and glue on.
3. Glue googly eyes on top of the eyebrows.
4. Cut a strip of black construction paper for the hair, then cut out zig zag marks on the bottom of the strip. Glue this to the top of the toilet paper roll.
Mummy:
1. Glue on googly eyes.
2. Cut out strips of toilet paper and glue them on top of paper roll to look like a mummy,
Vampire:
1. Paint the paper roll ivory.
2. Cut the hair from black construction paper, making a peak so that it comes down close to where your eyes will be, and glue to the top.
3. Glue on the googly eyes.
4. Draw on the mouth with a Sharpie.
5. Cut 2 small triangles for the fangs from white paper and glue on.
6. Cut out a large triangle from red cardboard paper and glue to the back for the cape.
