Arts and Crafts are a great way to bond with your kids,
especially when the whole family gets involved. These days kids (and parents
too) are so consumed with technology that they often don’t even know what
making crafts means.
Set aside some time to do crafts with your kids. You can do
this on a weekly or monthly basis. Find a fun craft that you know your child
will enjoy and block out some special time with them. Crafting together is an
easy way to get one-on-one time with your kids and find out what’s going on in
their minds.
Here is a fun Halloween craft that you can do with your kids:
Halloween
Hand Print Ghoul Banner
Things you will need:
Construction paper: white, black,
yellow, green, red, purple, black and orange
Black marker (or crayon)
White paint pen (or crayon)
Scissors
Glue stick
Black marker (or crayon)
White paint pen (or crayon)
Scissors
Glue stick
On any one of the
colored papers trace your child’s hand. Stack green, yellow, purple, red,
orange and black sheets on top of each other with the traced hand print sheet
on top.
Tip: to keep the
sheets together you can paper clip them on all four sides.
Cut out the
hand print, cutting through all six sheets at once. If you prefer, do each one
individually or only 2 or 3 at once. Whatever works best for you! With fingers
of the cut outs pointing downward, have children draw faces on the hand prints.
Fold a sheet of
white construction paper in half lengthwise. Open up and cut along crease.
Attach the two lengths of white paper together with glue stick, end to end. Repeat
this step with a sheet of black paper as well, only this time after folding in
half, trim off about 1/2″ from the long ends and the same on the short ends.
The idea is to make the black the foreground color, placing it on top of the
white banner, making the white banner the border.
After you trim the
black sheet, go ahead and cut it in half lengthwise like you did with the white
one and glue on top of the white sheets. Attach the hand print ghouls to the
bottom of the banner with glue stick. Use white paint pen or white crayon to
write Happy Halloween across the banner. Hang!