| Halloween usually conjures up images of | | | | life size vampires however can be made out of |
| strange shapes, dark movie characters and | | | | coat hangers and black garbage bags. |
| popular animals. These days though, these | | | | |
| common figures can be made in more ways than | | | | UFO |
| one and using an assortment of different | | | | |
| materials. Here are the top eleven variations | | | | UFOs are not typical Halloween figures but |
| on the most popular Halloween arts and crafts | | | | stories about alien abductions sure make |
| for kids. | | | | scary Halloween tales. Make UFOs out of paper |
| | | | plates that you can hang from the ceiling. |
| Bats | | | | You might also want to complement the ships |
| | | | with cookies shaped like stereotypical aliens |
| It's not necessary for you to buy plastic | | | | instead of ginger bread men. |
| bats for Halloween decorations. You can | | | | |
| easily cut patterns or two dimensional bats | | | | Worms |
| from construction paper or cartolina. Bat | | | | |
| Halloween arts and crafts for kids can also | | | | Worms in cans can be made of brown crepe |
| be creatively made out of egg cup cartons to | | | | paper. They can seem yuckier to the touch |
| hang or out of clothes pins to clip on | | | | though if you use gummy candies and cooked |
| curtains. | | | | spaghetti. |
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| Pumpkins | | | | Ghosts |
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| Gone are the days of messy pumpkin carving. | | | | Just like spiders, ghosts can also have a lot |
| You can easily have pumpkin paper lanterns as | | | | of variations. You can make ghost Halloween |
| Halloween arts and crafts for kids projects. | | | | arts and crafts for kids made of socks, |
| If you don't like lanterns, you can still | | | | packing foam, old cloths, crepe paper, helium |
| make pumpkins out of paper plates, milk | | | | filled balloons, white painted jars, tissue |
| containers and construction paper. One other | | | | and clay. |
| great alternative would be pumpkin baskets | | | | |
| made of paper mache. | | | | The Mummy |
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| Witches | | | | For a mummified figure, you can wrap a jar |
| | | | with tissue paper or gauze. Cut out some eyes |
| Paper plates and cardboard can be used when | | | | from construction paper and stick them on the |
| making a witch Halloween arts and crafts for | | | | jars before you put on the tissue so you can |
| kids. As an alternative, you can create a | | | | have the eyes slightly covered and just |
| witch doctor look instead of a western witch | | | | peeking. |
| by incorporating beaded necklaces and | | | | |
| homemade stuffed voodoo dolls. | | | | Cats |
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| Spiders | | | | What's Halloween without black cats? Use |
| | | | paper plates to create cat masks or some |
| Spiders are among the most popular Halloween | | | | cotton and crepe paper to create billowing |
| arts and crafts for kids. Spiders can be as | | | | streamers. |
| simple as construction paper or egg cup | | | | |
| carton hangers. They can also be made of pom | | | | Skeletons |
| poms or colored cotton balls. | | | | |
| | | | The most common skeleton man would be made |
| Vampires | | | | out of white or luminous paint on black |
| | | | background. You can however create a good |
| Vampire masks with fangs can be easily made | | | | looking skeleton with different kinds of |
| with paper plates. More imposing ornamental | | | | pasta. |