Halloween Crafts With Crayola
If you've ever used a box of crayons, chances are they were made by Crayola. The company produces a wide variety of toys, art tools and kits for children of various ages. In addition to its products, Crayola offers numerous craft options for your children, whether they're toddlers or middle school-aged. From paper and glue to pens, pencils, markers and sidewalk chalk, you won't be short of supplies when you use Crayola products to make Halloween crafts.
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Spider Pencil Topper
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This craft is simple to do and appropriate for all elementary school-aged children. You'll need pipe cleaners, Crayola Model Magic Fusion, markers, colored pencils, rubber bands and scissors. Cut one pipe cleaner into four equal parts, and gather them together; wrap a rubber band around the centers of the four pipe cleaners, securing them. Mold a ball from the Model Magic Fusion clay and wrap it around the rubber band center of your pipe cleaners; you now have the body and legs of your spider. Insert the unsharpened end of a colored pencil into the body (ball of clay) of your spider. Allow the clay to harden for two or three days and then use a marker to draw on a scary face.
Construction Pumpkin Ghouls
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You'll need all of these products made by Crayola to create a field of pumpkin ghouls: Slick Sticks, cutter, construction paper, washable glue stick and transparent paper. Trace and cut out a pumpkin shape from construction paper. Draw a face on the pumpkin, much like you would a real pumpkin, by making large shapes that are easily cut away. If the children are too young to understand this concept, help them with the drawing process. Use the Crayola cutter to cut away the center of the eyes, nose and mouth you've drawn. Use a glue stick to adhere a piece of transparent paper to the paper's back, and then trim the edges of the transparent paper to the shape of the pumpkin. Repeat for as many pumpkins as you wish. Hang the pumpkins in your window; the light from the indoors will shine through the transparent paper, casting a soft glow.
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Spooky Sidewalks
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Use Crayola sidewalk chalk, a plastic bowl, an old dish rag and a cardboard cutout to draw spooky images on your sidewalk. Draw and cut out a large foot shape from cardboard and give it to the children to trace with sidewalk chalk in a walking pattern up the walkway or driveway. Alternatively, have the kids draw a big blob shape with a white or yellow piece of chalk and scribble in the center with white to color it in. Blur the center of the drawing with a dish rag to make it look like a ghost and draw on a face with other chalk colors. Trace a plastic bowl to make the body of a spider and draw eight, angled legs protruding from it. Have kids make "hairy" legs by scribbling over the lines in short, horizontal strokes.
Trick or Treat Bags
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Make simple trick or treat bags with Crayola Wonder Paint and brown paper lunch bags. If you need a bigger sack, try this technique with an old white pillowcase. You'll also need to gather some fall leaves from outdoors. Apply Wonder Paint to the back of the leaves you've collected. Press the leaves (painted side down) on the brown paper bag or pillowcase to create a colorful fall print. Make decorating the trick-or-treat bags a Halloween tradition your kids look forward to each year before they go trick-or-treating.
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