As Halloween approaches many grade schools will be hosting parties and having the children dress up. A great way to decorate the class room is to have the children make mobiles and then hang them from the ceiling. This is also a great contest, because the children can focus on attention to detail and creativity and then the class can do a brown paper bag vote to decide the winner.

You will need:

Colored Craft Sticks

Craft Glue

String

Pipe Cleaners

Hole Punch

A Color Printer

Clip Art

Directions:

• Glue two craft sticks together in the shape of an X
• Once the craft sticks dry wrap the center with the string to cover the glue and secure the sticks together
• Download your halloween clip art from www.graphicsfactory.com
• Encourage the children to focus on Halloween or create a theme that explains with out words what they are dressing up as
• Cut the clip art out with as much detail as possible
• Punch a hole at the top of each clip art cut out
• Tie a piece of string to to each end of the craft sticks
• Then attach the clip art cut outs to the ends of the strings
• When all the clip art cut outs are attached wrap a pipe cleaner around the middle of the craft sticks and twist the top of the pipe cleaner to use as a hook

When you are using clip art the possiblilties are endless. If you have Halloween clip art crafts that you would like to share with us and other crafters please feel free to send us an email and we will do our best to post your ideas.

Have a spooktacular day!

With Halloween right around the corner, here is a tip that will have trick or treaters howling for more.

Mystery Bags are a great way to ensure that everyone receives a treat and they still have a choice. Each bag will be sealed and put in a basket by the door. In the event that you are not home or have to step away from the door you can label the basket “Take One” this will increase the excitement since there will be several different bag “styles” available.

You will need:

• A set number of brown paper lunch sacks – based on the number of visitors you expect
• Glue sticks
• A stapler
• Clip Art
• Internet connection
• Computer printer
• Candy

Graphicsfactory.com is full of fun clip art downloads for all occassions. We have selected several fun halloween clip art images for this activity.

Directions:

• Go to www.graphicsfactory.com
• Go to the search bar and enter the word halloween
• Select your clip art pictures
• Once you have downloaded your clip art pictures print them out and make sure you have one picture for each bag
• Once you have printed the clip art pictures, cut them out and use the glue stick to glue one to each bag
• Fill the bags with candy and staple shut
• The bags are ready for your visitors!

Happy Haunting