Posts Tagged ‘halloween’
Last Minute Clip Art Halloween Décor
You have probably seen the papier-mâché lunch bags that hold tea lights for decoration. The lunch bags pricked with a pin to display a design when the lit candles are placed inside the bag.
As a last minute clip art idea, we have created a fun and crafty clip art recipe.
You will need:
- A roll of aluminum foil
- Paper bags
- Your favorite clip art from www.graphicsfactory.com
- Tea light candles
- Glue
- Sewing needle or pin
- Stapler
Directions:
- Carefully and smoothly, line each bag with aluminum foil down the vertical sides; secure each piece of foil with a staple at the top
- Cut out your clip art to show detail
- Glue clip art to outside of the bag -whichever side you glue the clip art to is now the front
- Take the pin or sewing needle and prick the clip art every two inches all the way around
- Place the tea light on a small rectangular shape of foil a bit smaller than the bottom of the bag
- Once you are ready to show off the design use a fireplace match to light the candle
This works best in a darker area
PLEASE NOTE : NEVER LEAVE CANDLES NEAR CHILDREN OR UNATTENDED, ALWAYS BLOW OUT FLAME BEFORE LEAVING THE ROOM OR GOING TO SLEEP!
Top Five Ways Clip Art Helps Cheap People at Halloween
Okay so it was a really long title but you are still reading so it must have worked!
TOP FIVE LIST
5. You can save popsicle sticks to paste your clip art puppets to and that will save money on apples
4. You can paste clip art on a plain white t-shirt instead of springing for an real costume
3. By handing out clip art instead of candy you will be confirming the rumor that you are cheap so the neighbors can stop talking about you
2. After handing out clip art instead of actual treats you will probably save plenty of money on toilet paper
and the number 1 way that clip art helps cheap people at Halloween is by ensuring that no one knocks on your door expecting candy next year!
Seriously, to contribute to a safe Halloween for neighborhood children create clip art popsicle stick invitations and host a trick-or-treat party to get the kids ready to go trick-or-treating in groups.
Clip Art Popsicle Stick Invitations
You will need:
- Your favorite downloaded clip art from www.graphicsfactory.com
- Scissors
- Glue
- Popsicle Sticks
- Permanent Markers
Directions:
STEP 1) Print and Cut out your clip art images
STEP 2) On the front of each piece of clip art write the words “Trick or Treat Party @ Add the time of your party (see example)”
STEP 3) Glue each piece of clip art to a popsicle stick
STEP 4) Repeat until there is one for every child that is coming
Trick-or-Treating is a great way for parents and kids to explore their neighborhood and celebrate Halloween.
TRICK OR TREAT PARTY SAMPLE INVITATION:
4-5 pm Oct 31st
404 Elm Street
Bring your friends!
A Haunting Howling Ghoule Time With Clip Art!
With Halloween parties for older kids on the way we thought we would share a few party ideas!
Guess Who?????
Guess who is a new twist on an old guessing game.
As each of your guests arrive you tape a piece of paper to their back with your favorite clip art that describes their character.
As they mingle with their friends they ask yes or no questions until they discover their character that is taped to their back.
The older the children are the more complicated the characters and clues can be.
If the party is for adults use characters from “monster” or “vampire” novels, or actual authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, and Bram Stoker.
Character Cards
You Will Need:
- Your favorite Halloween Clip Art downloaded from www.graphicsfactory.com
- You can either use word to create the names of the characters or use marker or gel pens to write by hand
- If the party is for children you may want to type some character hints
Directions:
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Downlaod your clip art and save
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Go into Word and create one character card for each expected guest
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Open a new document in Word and insert a picture from file on the first page
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Type the characters name in bold
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Type five clues under the character name
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Insert a page break and repeat until you have a character card for each guest
Character Card Sample
Character: Dracula
- Sleeps all day
- Drinks blood instead of juice
- Allergic to the sun
- Always wears a cape
Have a Howling Good Time!
Halloween Mobiles Using Clip art
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!
Mystery Bags Always Do The Trick!
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 
