Bonding, Crafting and Halloween Fun!

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. 

If you craft with your child specifically for the purpose of bonding with them, keep your craft time fun. Try not to obsess about how perfect they are painting or getting the bead glued on just right. Keep your craft time relaxed.

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

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!