Kids always have fun making crafts, especially holiday-themed crafts. Why not include a few Hallween crafts for kids in your party plans this year? Here are some fun and simple Halloween craft ideas for your kids to make.

1. Trick-or-Treat bucket
Supplies: ice cream bucket, construction paper, markers, crayons, glue, glitter (any craft supplies)
Directions: Use construction paper to draw ghosts, pumpkins, scarecrows, etc. Cut out your decorations and glue them to the outside of an ice cream bucket.

2. Trick-or-Treat goody bags
Supplies: small brown paper bags, Halloween stickers, markers, treats (candy, pencils, erasers, bubblegum, etc.)
Directions: Decorate paper bags in Halloween themes using your art supplies. Put treats inside bags. Fold the top of the bag down and tape shut with a Halloween sticker.

3. Tiny pumpkins
Supplies: acorns, orange paint, and green paint
Directions: Lay acorns on a sheet of newspaper. Paint the bottom of the acorns with orange paint. After the orange paint dries, paint the top of the acorns green (for the stem of the pumpkin). Allow to dry thoroughly.

4. Spooky Spiders
Supplies: black construction paper, cotton balls or cotton stuffing, black pipe cleaners, small bowl or saucer, and a stapler
Directions: Using black construction paper, trace around a small bowl or saucer. (Cut out two circles per spider.) Place stuffing or cotton balls on first circle. Lay second circle on top of cotton stuffing and staple half-way around. Insert 3-4 pipe cleaners on each side, then staple the second half of the circles together. Bend pipe cleaners to make the legs of the spider.

In October Halloween gives kids a great opportunity to dress up in whichever costume they’d like and have a great time. There are many kids Halloween costumes to choose from including Jedi costumes, pirate costumes, and princess costumes. One of the great things about an online costume store is that they often have a larger selection because they aren’t limited to how much floor or window space they have.

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Are you looking for wholesome Halloween party game ideas for kids? Return to the fun kids had years ago with these basic but fun Halloween party game ideas.

Apple bob – Fill a large tub with water and apples. Let kids take turns bobbing for apples.

Costume contest – Once all your guests arrive at the party, take a vote on the best and scariest costumes. Add as many categories to your list as you want and hand out a grand prize to the best costume.

Pin the nose on Jack ‘o Lantern – This is a spin-off version of the all-time favorite game among children. Make a huge Jack ‘o Lantern, leaving off his nose. Let kids take turns being blindfolded and pin (or tape) the nose on Jack.

Pumpkin carving contest – Hold a pumpkin carving contest. See who can carve the funniest or silliest face into a pumpkin.

Make a mask – Give younger kids at your Halloween party construction paper, round-ended scissors, markers and glue. Let them make their own face masks for the party. Punch a hole in both sides of the mask and tie string or tiny elastic on the mask.

Guess how many seeds – Place counted pumpkin seeds in a large bowl or jar. Each party guest takes turns guessing how many pumpkin seeds there are. Whoever guesses closest to the correct numbers wins a prize.
Pumpkin seed spitting contest – Cut the top off a large pumpkin and remove the inside meat and seeds. Give each kid five seeds and see how many seeds they can spit into the pumpkin from a distance.

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Halloween is just around the corner and its time to start breaking out the decorations. Of course, you can just put some carved pumpkins on the porch, but why not try something a bit different this year? A few of our favorite Halloween decorating ideas:
1. Set up a display that can easily be redone for Thanksgiving, as well. Bales of hay, millet plants, and grasses make a great backdrop for all of those spooky Halloween items, but they will look just as nice behind an arrangement of gourds, mums and Indian corn.
2. Help the kids make some “spiders” out of black styrofoam balls and pipecleaners. Hang them from the porch with elastic cording. Add a few fake cobwebs.
3. Make tombstones from big pieces of styrofoam spraypainted black. Carve names, dates and R.I.P. on each tombstone. (Let the kids make up silly names.) Scatter the tombstones around the yard.
4. Sound effects really heighten the spooky factor, but don’t make them too scary or you’ll have a lot of left over candy. Branches rustling and squeaky doors are about all most the smaller set can handle.
Do you have any great Halloween decorating tips to share? Please feel free to share them, either here or in the forum.

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