Today’s Halloween craft is incredibly easy but these are also so fun to decorate your home with.  We’ve made our monsters plain and easy to paint but let your kids use their imagination if they want to make them spookier.

Here are the items you will need for this project:

Blank Canvas frames.  You can use any size that you want and they are easily found at Wal-mart, Michael’s and Hobby Lobby.  You will also need foam paint brushes, black sharpie marker, and then some white, black, orange, green and purple acrylic paints.

To make the pumpkin picture, take a foam brush and cover the entire canvas with orange paint.  Let dry completely.

After this has dried, take the black sharpie marker and make a Jack-O-Lantern face. Paint in the pumpkin’s face and let dry.

Obviously the ghost is super easy. You don’t need to paint the canvas white but you can if you’d like.  Take the black sharpie marker to make a ghost face and then paint with black paint.

Next is our Halloween Frankie.  With a foam brush, paint the entire canvas with a bright green paint.  Let dry completely.

Take the black sharpie marker and draw downward spikes for his hair.

Paint them in with some black paint.

Next, using the below picture, just free hand drawing Frankie’s face.  Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be perfect!  If your kids are old enough, let them draw this part themselves.  It will make their picture an original!

Now take the white paint and paint the eyes and tooth.

Last but not least is our one eyed monster.  On this one, you can have your kids follow our example or let them go crazy and create whatever kind of monster they want to make. 

For our one eyed monster, paint the entire canvas with a bright purple paint.

Using the sharpie marker, create a squiggly mouth and a large circle in the middle for the eye.  Use your white paint to fill in the eyes and tooth.  Let that dry then you can also add a black dot in the middle of the eye.

These are now ready to hang to make your house spooky for Halloween! 

Here are some more Halloween craft ideas to make your house even spookier!

Coffee Filter Bats

Cheesecloth Ghost Decoration

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To make these you will need four sheets of tissue paper, (three of one color and one of another color) some color coordinating pipe cleaners, some scissors and a ruler.

Lay down three full sheets of tissue paper with one half sheet of tissue paper in another color centered in the middle.

Next you are going to want to fold in two inch increments. Fold one way, then turn the paper over and fold the other way.  Repeat until you end.

Flatten out your tissue paper after folding.

We are now going to cut some fringe on the center piece.  Carefully remove center piece and fold it back together accordion style.  Cut each end with small cuts (about 1 1/2 inches) to create fringe.

Open your middle piece tissue paper back up and place it back on your full sheets.

Fold everything back up again and then fold in half.

Taking your scissors, cut half circles at the end of your tissues.

Open your tissues and place a pipe cleaner in the middle.   Twist tightly but don’t pinch the middle.

Open up your flower and start fluffing the tissue paper one side at a time by pulling the layers of tissue paper apart.

Now that you know how to make tissue paper flowers, they are ready to hang.  Use the pipe cleaners in the back to attach to a rod if you’d like to stand them up.

These are fairly large as you can see in the pictures and make a beautiful look on walls.

You may have some tissue paper left over so here is another fun tissue paper craft!

Tissue Paper Flower Bracelet

Tissue Paper Flower idea by The Crafty Mom

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It is super easy and a fun craft to make!  It’s a perfect way to use the kid’s imagination and creativity!

Isn’t it so beautiful outside this time of the year!?! Everywhere you look, Fall is showing off its golden colors.

Your kiddos will love this Fall activity! So what are you waiting for?!?

To make Leaf Art you will need:

-leaves from outside

-googly eyes

-glue

-black marker

-paper

Let your munchkin make anything they can imagine, for example, my daughter wanted to make leaf monsters and a little baby hedgehog.

Here is a little puppy made of red and yellow leaves and, of course, huge googly eyes!

I hope you enjoyed these leaf art ideas!

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Hi Everyone! This is Melanie from Artzy Creations here to share with you, a fun Thanksgiving craft for kids. At our house, it’s typically a long day for the kids and they get a little restless waiting for the big Thanksgiving dinner. Not this year… I’ve come up with a clever way to create a turkey using just a few materials and some wood slices. I love wood slices and how versatile they are for so many crafts. Plus, they make the cutest darned turkeys.

This Wood Slice Turkey is great because you can have the pieces pre cut and put in separate bags for the kids to complete on Thanksgiving day. That really helps make this project extra simple, easy to distribute and manage on that busy day.

Supplies Needed:

• Wood Slices
• Red Felt
• Orange Felt
• Googly Eyes
• Tacky Glue (It’s great for kids to use for this project.) or Hot Glue
• Colored Ribbon

Step 1: Cut several pieces of different colored ribbon to roughly 3″ in length. Make a loop and place a dab of glue between the ends of the ribbon to glue them together.

Step 2: Glue the loops of ribbon to the back of the turkey and space them out just a little bit in a fan pattern.

Step 3: Next, you will create the legs of the turkey by taking two pieces of ribbon, roughly 1″ in lenght and glue these pieces to the back of the turkey. If you’re using ribbon with a pattern (like mine) make sure the pattern is facing the front so you can see it. You can angle the legs like I did or have them just go straight up and down.

Step 3: Take a little piece of red felt and a cut a curved waddle shape. Use a small piece of orange felt and cut a triangle for the beak.

Step 4: Glue the waddle shape down first. Followed by the beak. Finally, glue the googly eyes on.

Look at these cute turkeys. They will be a kid crowd pleaser for sure.

They are not only cute, but they make great a table decorations. You could also turn these into magnets for the fridge too.

I hope you enjoyed this project! I wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving. I will see you all in December. Until then you can follow me for more craftiness fun at Artzy Creations or on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Google +.

If you like this project, check out these fun projects too:

Color Blocked Leaves

Borax Star Ornaments

Borax Star Ornaments

Free Fall Coloring Page

Free Fall Coloring Page

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