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!