Just find an eggbox or a paper cup
Hang up these homemade Halloween decorations to give your home an easy spooky makeover.
- 5-10 minutes
- 3+
1. Frankenstein Halloween decoration
What you’ll need:
- paper cup
- green paint
- black paint
- googly eyes
- black card
What to do:
- Give your child the cup to paint green.
- When it’s dry, they can draw on black hair and a mouth, and stick-on googly eyes.
- You could snip a speech bubble from a piece of card with a personalised message.
2. Spooky flying bats
What you’ll need:
- egg box
- black paint
- googly eyes
- ribbon or string
- scissors
What to do:
- Cut a strip of 3 joined cups from the egg box. Cut scalloped edges on the outer 2 to make wings.
- Now, your kids can paint the whole thing black.
- When it’s dry, they add googly eyes.
- Make 2 cuts in the top of the middle cup, so they can thread some ribbon or string.
- Hang in the window or outside your front door.
3. Simple spiderweb wreath
What you’ll need:
- black card and coloured card
- white wool
- scissors
- glue
What to do:
- Help your child to snip a circle of black card (it helps to draw around a plate).
- Give them the coloured card to draw and snip a spider shape.
- Now, give them strips of wool to stretch across the plate, taping each end at the back. Add a loop of wool so you can hang the web up.
- Finally, they glue on the spider. Then hang the web on your front door.
4. Hanging Halloween ghost decoration
What you’ll need:
- paper cup
- toilet paper
- glue
- black pen
- string
- scissors
- glue
What to do:
- Give your child a cup and a black pen so they can draw a face.
- Tear long strips of toilet paper for them to stick to the inside of the cup.
- Use string to hang the cup up.
5. Brilliant bat
What you’ll need:
- paper cup
- black paint
- black card
- white paper
- red pen
- pipe cleaner
- googly eyes
- scissors
- tape
What to do:
- Ask your child to paint the cup black.
- Help them to snip out black card wings and ears. Draw a mouth on the white paper (don’t forget to add fangs).
- When the paint is dry, stick all the features to the cup. Add googly eyes.
- Stick on a pipe cleaner to hang it up.
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