Homemade Halloween Arts and Crafts

All kids love to do arts and crafts, and with the fall season upon us, everyone's looking for pumpkin ideas. Heres a few crafts that are simple, easy and inexpensive that you're kids will love doing with you. Have fun!

Lunch Bag Pumpkin

Materials:
Brown Paper lunch bags, newspaper, green felt and pipe cleaners, orange and black markers

Using the paint, color the paper bags orange, leaving a couple inches at the top brown. When dry, paint on a jack-o-lantern pattern in black. Use the green felt to cut out leaf shapes. Stuff the bags with newspaper and then use half of a pipe cleaner to twist the top together. Then use the leaves to twist it into place. A simple project that can be made into a huge homemade pumpkin patch!

Pumpkin Clickers

Materials:
Glue, construction paper, lots of baby food jar lids

Use the construction paper to cut out a pumpkins, and then glue on cut-out pieces of black paper to make a jack-o-lantern. Next, glue the whole thing onto baby food jar lids, set aside to dry. Small babies and toddlers love them because they click when pressed on in the middle.

Pumpkin and Ghost Jars

Materials:
baby food jars, black marker, glue, white yellow and orange tissue paper, paintbrush, green raffia

First, dilute the white glue to a thin consistency and use a small paint brush to paint glue onto the jar. Tear up tissue paper and glue it to the jar until the whole thing is covered. Let dry, and then use the marker to make a jack-o-lantern face. Tie the raffia around the top to create a stem. A ghost can also be used using white tissue paper. These are wonderful as gifts full of small candy, or even as a small candle holder.

Pumpkin Plate Faces

Materials:
small paper bowls, orange paint(acrylic works best), paintbrush, scissors and pencil, black marker, glue, tape, green ribbon, and different colored construction paper.

Paint the back of the paper bowl orange and let dry completely. Draw on the other side a jack-o-lantern face, and then carefully cut it out with scissors. Then, use the marker to outline the cut-outs and add a few vertical lines to make it look realistic. Use the tape or glue to glue yellow paper on the inside of the bowl to make the pumpkin look like its glowing with candlelight. Make a stem and leaves with brown and green paper and attach to the top. Voila! A pretty pumpkin. Great for kindergartners and kids that love to use scissors.