Summer is gone and Halloween is just around the corner. Why not put those crafty skills learned at camp to use? Here are some fun ideas that kids can use to help create their own costumes, or to simply get into the Halloween spirit and stomp around the house in anything from monster feet to fairy crowns.
Monster Feet Craft
Here’s a craft that kids of all ages will have fun making and wearing. Kids can decorate their own monster feet and make them as fantastic as they like!
You will need:
- 2 tissue boxes (the hole must be big enough to put your foot in)
- Paint
- Sequins and other decorative bits
- Felt paper
Instructions:
- Paint your tissue boxes any color you like and leave them to dry.
- Cut triangles from felt paper. Glue them along one of the short edges of the box as claws.
- Decorate your feet however you like. You can use sequins, paint, pompoms, buttons, felt paper, and even glitter do decorate your monster feet. Be as creative as you like!
Flower Tiaras
The G4 G.F.U.’s making flowers and tiaras with Crafty Claire
This craft can serve as either decorative flowers or flower tiaras to complete a fairy costume. Use your crafty camper skills to make it into whatever you like!
You will need:
- Pipe cleaners
- Multi-colored tissue paper
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Cut several 3in-wide circles out of tissue paper. Then cut smaller circles out of different colored tissue paper. Layer as many as 3 to 4 circles on top of each other to make a flower.
- Take your combined layers of tissue, and cut two holes in the center.
- Pull the pipe cleaner through the two holes, and bunch up the tissue paper to make it into the shape of a flower.
- To create a flower, pull the tissue paper flower to the middle of the pipe cleaner, then twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together to create a stem. To create a tiara, keep adding tissue paper flowers to the pipe cleaner, and twist another pipe cleaner onto the end of it to add more length as needed. When you’re done adding flowers, twist the two ends of the pipe cleaners to create a circle, and place your new tiara atop your head!
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