Free Halloween Crafts

• A couple different types of pasta and dried beans, like spaghetti, macaroni, tiny tube pasta, long tube pasta, wagon wheels, long spirals, tiny shells, wagon wheels
• A piece of black construction paper 
• White glue

• Glue the pasta to the black paper using white glue.

• Have the kids arrange the pasta on the paper before gluing (to make sure that they have room for the whole body on the piece of paper).

• You can use just about any type of pasta (or dried beans) for the bones.

• Experiment with different variations.

• Black construction paper
• Q-tips
• White paper
• Scissors
• Glue

• Using the white paper you can draw a skeleton skull.

• Cut out the skull and then glue that to your black construction paper.

• Using the Q-tips as bones you can arrange your skeleton body.

• Give your skeleton some arms, legs, ribs, etc.

• You can cut the Q-tips into smaller pieces to be used as smaller joints.

• Glue all the Q-tips on the black paper once you have it laid out like you like. Very Simple!

• Skeleton Paper Bag Light Ups

• Black water-soluble block printing ink
• Lunch bag sized paper plates
• Sand
• 3" votive candles in glass containers
• Styrofoam trays
• Dull pencil
• Windowpane-size piece of glass or acrylic
• 6" - 8" wide roller

• Cut the Styrofoam trays to 4" x 8" rectangles so they lie flat.

• With the dull pencil, draw designs in the Styrofoam.

• This is a reverse process: A design you create will be the          non-inked part of the bag.

• Squeeze about 1-1/2 inches of ink onto the glass.

• Roll the roller back and forth to spread the ink (it may be sticky at first).

• Once the roller is covered with an even coat of ink, roll it across a Styrofoam image.

• Press the side of a brown paper bag onto the Styrofoam.

• Rub the paper bag with a large serving spoon, pressing the paper into the Styrofoam with a back-and-forth movement.

• Carefully remove the bag and set it aside to dry (approximately 10 minutes).

• Re-ink the Styrofoam or use another piece with a different image and repeat the process with additional bags.

• Let dry.

• Open the bags and fill each 1-inch deep with sand, placing them along your walkway.

• Light the candles in their glasses and ease them into the center of the sand in the bags.