Flying Ghosts
I wanted to start the slew of Halloween crafts with something easy and fun for a wide range of ages. I always try to have crafts that can be changed ever so slightly to fit all ages in the family. My son loved this ! For older children I would have used glow in the dark paint and have them fill the ghost body in carefully with white crayon before gluing on the eyes. Then the craft would have been cool in the dark as well!
- Gather your materials. You will need black paper, white paint, a dish, a ghost cookie cutter, glue and googly eyes. I had the orange paper to make a back to frame it but the ghosts ended up too close to the edge and I didn’t want to cut them.
- Pour the paint in the dish and dip your cookie cutter in.
- Print. Don’t worry if some are wiggly- I think they make it look like the ghosts are flying.
- Add glue for the eyes
- Add the eyes.
- Dip your child’s finger ( or your finger because and I quote” No mama you do it, I share my art project with you, your turn!” ) in the paint.
- Press on to make the ghosts mouths.
- Let dry.
Halloween Books!
I am looking for some tried and true Halloween books. Of all the schools I taught at only the last allowed any holiday reading and my favorites have already been featured. I want to hear about your children’s favorites. Please send in the title , a very short description/review and your blog url and I will fit them into the Halloween crafts that will be coming up in the next month.
Send them in : allie@notimeforflashcards.com
In case you missed them here are my favorite Halloween Books!
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Thanks! I keep thinking I fix it and it doesn’t get fixed! I will sit down and try again to figure it out , clearly I am better with paper and glue than computers!
I hear your about schools and holiday books. Everyone is so worried about ‘celebrating’ something that another group of people don’t that it’s taking all the fun out of the holidays. I’m actually looking forward to celebrating Christmas at our new school this year for the first time.
And now I’m going to go through our holiday bookshelf (yes, we have a bookshelf of just holiday books in our home) and find some Halloween favourites for you
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It’s so hard – as a teacher in one class I welcomed the ban honestly. The kids were such an excitable group that the smallest thing threw their 4&5 year old bodies into chaos. Still I enjoy it when I can share ALL holidays as a learning experience.
Can’t wait to see what you find CA!
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