Need a Fast and Fun Halloween Costume? Do Face Painting!

Halloween is here. This is a perfect time to try your hand at face painting. You can really finish off a costume with a little face paint. Face painting is also a great way to entertain kids at a party or to do as a volunteer at the kids school.It requires very little investment money wise. Here are a few simple faces to do for any beginner:

Supplies:

Make up sponges (the little triangles you can find at drugstores)

A paint brush with a smallish head

Face paint Available at MIchaels, Jo Ann's, A C Moore or look on the internet.

Colors to start with: Black, White, Yellow Ochre, Red

LION

^{Moisten your triangle make up sponge lightly}

^{Rub in your white paintbrush}

^{Make two half moon white areas over the eyes and a complete circle going from under the nose over the lips and on the chin}

^{Clean sponge. Dip in yellow ochre}

^{Cover the rest of the face with yellow ochre}

^{Take Black paint and with a brush paint a little triangle shape on the point of the nose and extend this around the nostrils.
Make two half moon white areas over the eyes and a complete circle going from under the nose over the lips and on the chin}

^{Clean sponge. Dip in yellow ochre}

^{Cover the rest of the face with yellow ochre}

^{Take Black paint and with a brush paint a little triangle shape on the point of the nose and extend this around the nostrils.}

^{Paint two half moon shapes at the mouth connecting to the above}

^{Draw two lines, one at each brow but winding up and away from the brows. Sort of like a section of a V}

^{Dot spots on each white area over the brow and on the white sections below the nose. Draw thin lines from each dot. These will be whiskers.}

^{Color a little patch of red on the bottom lip}

^{Draw stripes on the forehead and cheeks, just a few will do.}

^{You have a Tiger. You can add white fangs at the mouth if you're feeling creative by drawing two long thin V's.Make a few dots of blood (red paint) dripping off them.}

^Leopard:

^{Same as above but make little C's facing one another here and there on the forehead and cheeks for the Leopards spots}

^Clown:

^{Moisten sponge. Dip in white, cover face with white. Make red triangles above the eyes. Draw a black tear under the eye or add upside down triangles under the eyes.}

^{Paint a red circle on the tip of the nose}

^{Draw a sad or happy face mouth}

^{Two red circles can be added to the cheeks}

^{Dalmation Dog:}

^{Paint entire face white.}

^{Paint a large black area around one eye}

^{Paint black dots above the eyes and under the nose and add straight lines from the dots out for whiskers}

^{Paint a black area on the nose tip and nostrils.}

^{Draw a line from this to the mouth}

^{Make two sideways C's for the mouth}

^{Paint a red tongue (long red U coming from the mouth)}

^{You can add more black spots if you wish}

^{Spiderman :}

^{(much easier than you'd think)}

^{Paint entire face red except for eye area}

^{Two white triangles go over each eye.}

^{Outline these with black with a brush}

^{Draw lines radiating out from between the brows in a straight direction radiating out from this like the spokes in a wagon wheel (with brush)}

^{Paint lines between the "spokes" to create the web with your brush}

^{With very little practice you can make any of these faces and then branch out as you get more comfortable. There are numerous sites on the web to view the how to instructions or the finished product. You'll find it's a ton of fun and kids just love it. Be sure to take pictures of the faces you do.}