Make your Halloween extra creepy.....
Forget all those Halloween makes in the magazines – you know, the ones that were obviously put together by a team of structural engineers and fashion stylists at vast financial expense! We’ve come up with three creepy crafts your kids can actually make themselves – and to prove it, we sent Eve, 9, and Jack, 4, out into the garden to put them together…
1 Horrible hand
Terrify trick-or-treaters by taping a horrible hand to your doorknocker on Halloween!
They won't know whether to knock or run away!
You’ll need…
• Latex disposable gloves
• Popcorn
• Craft paper
• Nail polish
• Plasters
• Red and black marker pens
• String
• Sticky tape
• Glue
What to do..
• Stuff latex disposable glove with popcorn and tie off end with string to secure.
• Roll up a sheet of craft paper and glue to glove to form ‘sleeve’ – then draw on a cuff and button!
• Trim the end of the sleeve into jagged effect and add red marker pen ‘blood’.
• Paint ‘fingernails’ onto the tips of the gloves using nail polish.
• Add the necessary gore with an assortment of marker pen cuts and scars, and plasters.
2 Garbage bag gremlin
Leave garbage bag gremlin nestling on your front step in charge of a supply of sweets for anyone who calls when you’re out trick-or-treating…
You’ll need…
• Large black rubbish bag
• Old newspapers
• Popcorn
• Coloured craft paper
• Mop head
• Latex disposable gloves
• 2 tree branches(arm-length)
• String
• Sticky tape
• Glue
What to do…
• Stuff rubbish bag full of scrunched-up newspaper and tie to secure*.
• Cut different-coloured circles from the craft paper and glue onto bag to form eyes; cut a crescent shape and triangles for mouth and teeth (if your child is doing the cutting, make sure she uses safety scissors).
• Fill latex gloves with popcorn and tie with string to secure. Attach to the tips of the tree branches with sticky tape.
• Push the ends of the branches into the bag to attach the gremlin’s arms.
• Attach mop head to form the gremlin’s hair.
*Supervise young children at all times when handling plastic rubbish bags
3 Floating phantom
Simple but really effective when it comes to scaring the locals…
You’ll need…
• 2 large white rubbish bags
• Old newspapers
• Black craft paper
• String
• Glue
• Sticky tape
• Garden cane or broom handle
What to do...
• Cut the bottom of both rubbish bags into long strips and peel the sides apart.
• Stuff the top of one of the rubbish bags with scrunched-up newspapers, place it on the top of the garden cane or broom handle, and tie off with string to form phantom’s head.
• Attach second rubbish bag to garden cane/broom handle underneath the first to form phantom’s body.
• Glue on ovals cut from black craft paper to form phantom’s eyes and mouth (if you don’t have black craft paper to hand, use white and get your kids to colour it black with crayons).
• Position your phantom by pushing garden cane or broomstick into the soil.