Any ideas for halloween?? ( crafts )?

Question

I work at a day care with 3 year olds and halloween is just around the corner and I want them to make all this scary stuff....I do have some ideas, but I wanted to ask if any of you know some unique ones, if so can you share them with me...thank you in advance

Answer 1

Get lots of black and orange construction paper, and make those paper chain things to hang them around the room. Pre-cut the paper into 4 inch strips & have the kids glue them if they're not the kind of kids who eat it haha. Hang bats & skeletons from the ceiling.

Answer 2

1. Have them make thier own halloween cookies

2. Have a costume party (if it's not too much trouble for the parents).

3. Hide little bags of candy corn around your house and they have to find the one with the right color. Hand them each a colored card that corresponds with a bag. Then go tell them to find the bag, if they find a bag and it does not match the color on thier card , to put it back and keep looking. The first one to find thier bag gets a huge hersheys kiss(Wallmart).

Answer 3

I used to teach pre-k and we made spiders and spider webs out of construction paper and cotton balls.  You can also make bats, witches and perhaps put together a haunted house.  One experience that really worked for me was that we had a scarecrow sitting in a chair in the kindergarten classroom during the month of October.  Then, on Halloween, a teacher put on straw clothing, replaced the scarecrow in the chair, and stood up and scared the class.  That was an exciting experience for everyone.

Answer 4

i guess you could probably help them make little ghost out of tissue with string, i bet they would like that. or just make like a treasure hunt of candy corn, i do that with little cousin ( 2 and a half) and he loves it.

Answer 5

Precut ghosts out of white paper. (They can draw faces or you can precut triangle eyes and oval mouth, or you can get big wiggly eyes)

Cut out eyes/noses and mouths from magazines and them glue them to pumpkins. (or use pictures of their own eyes etc... if you have access to digital camera and printer)

Trace hands (fingers together) or their feet on white paper, cut out their "ghosts" they can draw faces on them and then glue them to black paper.  Use white chalk to write boo.

Scarecrow Head (again look for eyes etc.. in magazines, they can help looking for them a few days in advance and saved for the day you do the project)

Make a graph of what they want to be for halloween, or favorite choices in costumes, or favorite fall colors (math skills)

Have them draw a halloween picture than you can write what they tell you about it.

Go on a leaf hunt then do leaf rubbings in fall colors.

Answer 6

Hmm, 3 is kinda young to be showing them anything truly scary.

You could still do fun Halloween crafts, like something involving jack-o lanterns (not real ones) or black cats.

Try Googling what you are looking for, you can find lots of sites than can give you age appropriate crafts.

Answer 7

Spiders out of black pipe cleaners and pom poms, glued together, ghosts out of gauze and a styrofoam ball, and dont forget the pumpkins.

Answer 8

Here are a few projects I've done in the past:

Gluey ghosts:  the kids squirt regular glue onto wax paper.  Add eyes (beads or whatever you have).  When the glue dries, peel the ghosts off of the wax paper and hang them up

Pumpkins:  stuff paper grocery bags with newspaper and paint them orange.  

Spider webs:  Turn a small table upside down.  Let the kids wrap yarn around the table legs.  Pretty soon it will turn into a cool web, and your kids can add either toy bugs or bugs drawn on paper and cut out.

Scary stories:  Have the children tell you their own scary stories.  Type them up and post them for parents to read.

Answer 9

It may be best to shift your focus from Halloween to Autumn. There are tons of crafts you can do with fall. Halloween really limits you. Anyway, why try to make scary crafts with small children? They should enjoy life, not fear it.

Answer 10

u can gt a idea fm harry potter

Answer 11

I have done this with Daisy through Junior Girl Scouts.  It is pretty easy and should be able to be adapted for 3 year olds.

SUPPLIES: (for one pumpkin)

1 Peice Black Tissue Paper cut into 8 inch squares

2 Peices Orange Tissue Paper cut into 8 inch squares

1 - 2 Adult Handfulls of Stuffing (The fluffy kinds used for stuffed animals

1 Rubberband

2 12 inch long green chenelle stems (pipe cleaners)

Tape

DIRECTIONS:

1.    Roll stuffing into a ball.

2.    Place the stuffing in the middle of the black tissue paper.

3.    Working from one corner like you would wrap a glass in

       the tissue, wrap the stuffing up in the black tissue paper

       and secure with a peice of tape.

4.    Place the black tissue ball in the center of both sheets of

       orange tissue paper.

5.    Bring the corners of the tissue paper together directly

       above the black tissue paper along with any amount of

       remaining paper that can be gathered into your hand.

6.    Secure with the rubber band.  The rubber band doesn't

       need to be very tight.  Just tight enough to hold the paper

       in place.

7.    Join the two peices of chenelle step with one or two

       twists.

8.    Place the twisted section against the rubber band and

       wrap the ends in oposite directions, working to the top of

       the tissue paper.  Leave about two inches of both

       sections of the chenelle stem unwrapped.

9.    Cut away an excess paper that remains at the top of the

       wrapped chenelle stems.

10.  Wrap each remaining section of the chenelle stems

       around a pencil and slide off to complete the stem.

11.  Gently tuck in any remaining loose edges of paper, and

       shape the pumpkin as necessary.

Answer 12

well you could just let them draw any thing on paper then cut it out and tell then to show there moms and dads what they did. that is what i did last year when i tought 3 year olds. let then make a bat (drawing) ask them what did u want to dress up as for halloween? idk

Answer 13

How about a costume consisting of a turban, white robe, long beard and toy plastic, all black, Ak-47 machine gun. That ensemble oughta scare anybody you meet.  

just kidding of course.

That or you if can figure out how to make an 'Eye of Sauron' costume. Cheers!