Paper Crafts

A crafty friend told me about the fun she had with this as a child and shared with me how to do it …

“This trick gave me endless entertainment when I was a child. Nearly every child at my school had their ‘cut off’ finger in a match box and even though we were all knew how the trick worked, there was still something pleasingly revolting about looking in the match box. ”

What you will need
1 empty match box
Scissors
Cotton wool
Red food coloring

Slide the box out of the cover and cut away the sections as shown.

Lay a piece of cotton wool (you could use a folded tissue instead) in the bottom of the box.

Dribble some red food coloring onto the cotton wool about half way down the length of the box. Slide the box back into the cover.

To play the trick, put you index finger into the hole in the bottom and practice holding the box with your thumb and middle finger so it looks natural. Tell your friends that you cut your finger off and ask them if they want to see it. Slide the box open and there your finger will lay looking lifeless on a blood soaked bed of cotton wool!

Lots of Halloween paper crafts for children that are quick and easy and turn out spooktastic!

	Paper Strip Pumpkins Any excuse to make this cute decoration
	Paper Plate Spotty Spiders Not so scary, but lots of fun for little Halloween helpers
	Halloween Paper Garland A spooky twist on this classic paper craft.
	Halloween Hanging Garland Use your paper garlands to make this hanging version.
	Cardboard Roll and Hand Shape Paper Spiders
	Bat Mask Only have minutes to make a Halloween costume? Craft this one up super fast.
	Ball Rolling Spider Webs Making this decorated paper for Halloween is lots of fun.
	Paper Spider Wrist Wear
	Cut Out Shapes Pumpkin Pictures A great Halloween activity to set up for a group of children.
	Paper Towel Ghosts Another super quick Halloween craft.
	Hand Print Ghosts Print up a haunted house full of ghosts with these hand print spooks.

Cover your walls with these ghostly hand prints.

Just two steps to create a perfectly spootastic picture. Make hand prints using white paint on black paper. Hold your hands closed to make a ghost shape.

When it is dry, add the eye details with a felt or marker pen. If the eyes are on a slant like pictured here they look very ghostly. If your hand print has not left a mouth shape then also add a mouth so your ghost can “Woooooooooo”.

I am very excited by these little ghosties – super quick to toss together using art materials found in the kitchen cupboards.

I first saw a similar craft at Learn Create Love, they went a little further and used paint to make the paper towel ghosts stiff. But I am always looking for the easiest way to do paper crafts for children so I did a bit of adapting to the process, and I think they still look great!

You just need some paper towels, string, twist ties, a marker pen and some scissors.

Carefully poke a couple of holes in the center of the paper towel and push a twist tie through it. This will become the top of the head.

Bunch up another paper towel and put it in the center of the other towel and close the first paper towel over it and tie it at the base with the string.

Add some ghostly eyes and mouth and hang them about the house in time for Halloween.

We had such fun making lots of different pumpkin faces with cut out shapes.

Halloween is a great excuse for some great paper crafts for children. These pumpkin faces are lots of fun and easy to do. You just need some basic shapes. I also kept the colors really limited which you do not have to do, but I reckon it has turned out quite effective. So the shapes you need to cut out are a basic pumpkin shape in orange, and a stalk in green. Then out of black and white paper cut some random mouth shapes, some odd teeth shapes, triangles, circles, and a few eye shapes.

Then hand over some glue to the children and see what pumpkin faces they create.

Such a great way to make a spider. Based on your finger shapes and then worn on your hand for instant spider wear.

A speedy and easy paper craft for Halloween. Fold a piece of black paper in half and trace around your fingers with some chalk onto the paper.

Cut out around the finger shapes to make eight legs.

Open it up and add some eyes, then curl the legs around a pen.

Make a bracelet or wrist band from a strip of paper and attach it to the spider. Wear it on your wrist or hand and it will help you go trick or treating!

Another way to make a hand shape spider is at Cardboard Roll and Hand Shape Spiders.