Halloween crafts and party.

The girls and some friends really enjoyed these halloween crafts.
We started with Spider handprints. Very simply its two hand prints together (wrists touching). Only attempt both hands at the same on older children or it gets very messy! :)
We then added some googly eyes to finish off our friendly spiders.

Next we attempted ghost leaves. These had limited success with these as the leaves soon started to curl up at the edges. They were still enjoyable to make and looked super cute. An ideal craft for young trick or treaters as they arent scary.

Take a trip to the woods/park or even just along the side of the road. We actually collected these leaves during the walk home from Nursery. 

Then simply paint them white and with a black pen draw on your ghouls eyes and mouth. I used very fine sewing thread to hang them up as its not so easy to see making your ghosts really seem to fly.

These crafts made fab decorations for our Halloween party! I also make bunting from black craft paper and simply painting the letters on with white paint, and spooky ghosts from large white sheets of craft paper and gluing them to the windows. The looked very effective... especially as it got dark.

The girls invited some friends round for some halloween crafts and games.
They all dressed up and had a fab time! All the children enjoyed the craft activity of paper plate ghosts. This was my proto-type to show the children an example.

These were simple to make, although require abit of pre planning if theres a few children. Your ghost will need a paper plate, some arms cut from white card, white crepe paper cut into long strips and pens to draw your ghosts features.

 

As you can see the children loved their ghosts and many drew nice smiley, happy ghosts.

For our party we also had halloween food. This cake was made from a bundt tin. I split the batter into smaller pots and added food colouring to make a marble effect inside. Sadly the cake went too quickly and before I got chance to take a photo of the inside! The topping is  different coloured icing, microwaved for a few seconds to make it runny and then drizzled over the top. Simple but effective.

 These marshmallows were very popular too. I bought a black edible icing pen (which is as it sounds! A pen using edible ink) and used it to draw little ghost faces.