Fun Halloween Crafty Ideas

Ghostly Lanterns Craft Idea

Instructions to make your own Halloween Ghostly Lanterns:

Collect empty jam jars.  Wash and dry.  Paint them with white acrylic paint.  Allow to dry.  Draw and paint scary black eyes and mouth, or bats or a spider on the outside of the jar.  When the paint is dry, place a tealight inside and your lantern is ready for Halloween!

Dead Fingers
Using a piping bag, squeeze some shortbread dough onto a baking tray in the shape of a finger. Make some lines for  knuckles and wrinkles with the back of a knife. Add an almond for the fingernail.  Add a little red icing to give a creepy bloody finger. 

Bones
Using white sliced bread, spread with jam.  Cut off all the crusts.  Roll the bread up.  You now have some bones with blood coming out.  Kids will love 'em!

Witches Cauldron Toss
Decorate a large black bucket to look like a wicked witches cauldron with bats and frogs hanging from the sides etc!  Object of the game is to toss sweets into the cauldron to make the witches brew.  Hand out a selection of sweets to all the children and one by one let them toss into the pot.  A spooky prize for the winner and they get to eat the sweets they get in!

Ghost Trail
A spooky treasure hunt!  Choose a theme e.g. plastic fingers, toads, spiders, eyeballs, teeth, bones and hide them all over the house, garden, party room.  Tangle them up in spider webs.  See who can find the most!

Pumpkin Goo
Hollow out a large pumpkin.  Make up several watery jellies and pour into the pumpkin.  Throw in some horrible bits like intestines (cooked noodles), eyeballs (marshmallows), bones (twiglets), worms (sweets), jelly spiders etc etc.  Give it a good stir.  Place on a table top so the kids can't see inside, but so they can reach in with their hand for a feel around.  Ask them to write down what they think is inside.