Fun Crafts for Your Family - Spooky Homemade Halloween Decorations

It's alot of fun at Halloween time to make your own decorations. Especially when you have young children who are into arts and crafts. Heres a few that the whole family can enjoy making together, simply, inexpensively, and easily! Have fun, and enjoy hanging them all around for a spook-tacular holiday season!

Foam Spider in a Web

What you'll need:

3 candy pop sticks, white yarn, glue gun, scissors, a big foamie spider

Glue one of the popsicles across another so they form a "t". Then glue the third sideways across the top stick, so that it looks like a spider web. Wrap the yarn around the middle pieces a few times, and then add a couple dabs of hot glue to keep it in place. Wrap the yarn carefully around, making a spider web, gluing into place. When dry, glue the foam spider onto the front. Hang some yarn from the top if you wish to hang your spider.

Halloween Candle Wraps

What you'll need:

pillar candles, 3", jack-o-lantern beads, black and purple pony beads, memory wire bracelet, small needle nosed pliers

Use the memory wire to form a small loop to keep the beads from falling off. Randomly attach the black and purple pony beads along with the pumpkin beads, trying not to create much of a pattern as you do it. When you are done, bend the end into the loop so the beads stay in place, and wrap around a candle. It will stay in place and look awesome! This is a perfect project to help spice up some plain old candles.

Halloween Ornaments

What you'll need:

Satin cord, scissors, tacky glue, foam Halloween shapes, Large Cardboard or Foam Ovals and Circles

This is a very simple project thats lots of fun and very easy to do, even for very young children. Simply use the Halloween shapes to glue onto the circles and ovals. You can use pumpkins, bats, ghosts, witches, even candy corn shapes! Attach cord in small pieces, and glue to the back. Voila! Ornaments for your house or to hang outside in an instant!

Candy Corn Ornaments

What you'll need:

cardboard cones, foam brush, yellow , white and orange paint

Another easy and fresh decoration for either the house or yard. Flatten out a cardboard cone. Then paint the top quarter of it white, the bottom inch yellow, and the middle orange. Thats it! These are fun to line a sidewalk with, or just as a decoration around a bowl of candy corns.