Little ones will go batty over these Halloween water globes. To make one,
 fill a small, clear plastic bottle with water. Squeeze in one drop of liquid
 detergent and enough red and yellow food coloring to tint the water orange.
 Add a generous pinch of bat- and moon-shaped confetti (found at party-supply
 stores). Then hot-glue the cap onto the bottle. When the glue is dry,
 a youngster shakes the bottle to see the bats fly. Happy Halloween!

Trace child's foot out on white paper turn it around and put
 eyes and a circle mouth at he heel ... you have a GHOST.
~OR~
White tempera paint footprints on black paper. Cut out, leaving a bit of black to
 make an outline. Use the circle shaped notebook paper reinforcements for eyes.

I spy pumpkin pie--and smell pie, too! These crafty pumpkin pies smell just
 like the real thing. Fill a paper bowl with torn, orange tissue-paper pieces.
 Spray the pieces with cinnamon-scented air freshener. While the pieces
 are damp, sprinkle on pumpkin-pie spice. Trace the top of an empty
 bowl onto a piece of orange paper; then cut out the circle. Punch holes
 through the circle; then glue the circle onto the rim of the "pumpkin-filled" bowl.

Materials Needed:
1 pc. egg cups
markers
string or thread
white tempera paint
white tissue paper or crepe paper
glue

Directions:
Cut egg cartons into twelve single pieces. Poke a hole in the center
 of each cup for string. Let the children paint each egg cup. Do this early in
 the day or the previous day. They must be allowed to dry.  the faces can
 be drawn on with black marker or painted on with black tempera paint.
 Tissue paper, crepe paper, or white kleenex can be glued to the bottom
 of each egg cup to give some flowing motion when they are hung.
 Hang the ghosts by stringing a knotted piece of string or thread through
 a small hole in the top of each cup. These can be hung
 separately or hung in a ghostly mobile.

Put cotton balls in a bag with powdered orange tempera paint and shake around.
 Glue these cotton balls onto paper with green yarn for a pumpkin patch.
(Variation: Orange pom poms can be substituted for the cotton.)

Cut out a pie shape. Give children shakers with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg
 in them. Children spread glue over the paper pie shape and then shake spices on.

Ingredients Needed:
5 1/2 cups flour
2 cups salt
8 teaspoons cream of tartar
3/4 cup oil
1 container (1 1/12 ounces) pumpkin pie spice
Orange food coloring (2 parts yellow, 1 part red)
4 cups water

Directions:
Mix all of the ingredients together. Cook and stir over medium heat until all lumps
 disappear. Knead the dough on a floured surface until it is smooth.
 Store in an airtight container. Place a batch of this dough in your playdough
 center. Add some fall cookie cutters, small pie tins (save from pot pies),
and rolling pins to the area. (Invite your little ones to make fall cookies or
 pumpkin pies. Remind them that these goodies only smell good. No tasting please!)

Take small softball size gourds. Cut out faces, cut small hole in the bottom
 of the gourd, make sure to clean out gourds, place yellow tissue paper
 inside the gourds. Then you take small clear Christmas lights, put each
 bulb (or how may that you want) in each of the small holes in the bottom
 of the gourds, arrange in a small wooden shallow bowl or basket, arrange
 corn, leaves, small pumpkins in bowl or basket, plug in the lights.

Although the materials for this project are ordinary, the results are extraordinary.
 To make a ghost, cut through two thicknesses of waxed paper to make identical
 ghost-shaped cutouts. Tint white glue by adding a few drops of fluorescent paint
 or food coloring. Spoon tinted glue onto one of the ghost cutouts. Place black
 construction paper cutouts on the glue to resemble a ghost's eyes and mouth.
 Sprinkle the glue with clear glitter, if desired, before aligning the remaining
 ghost-shaped cutout and placing it on the first. When the ghost has dried,
 punch a hole in the top and suspend it from the ceiling with thread.

Page 1 "Pumpkin, pumpkin big and round."
(fingerpaint a pumpkin, cut and glue on page with words)
Page 2 "I'm glad that you grow on the ground."
(cut 4 small pumpkins & add yarn vine on page w/ words)
Page 3 "I'm glad that you don't grow in a tree."
(trunk and fall leaves precut, glue orange pumpkins w/ words)
Page 4 "'Cause then you might fall down on me." 
(draw self with bump on head and pumpkin broken on the ground on page w/ words)

Use the cutouts from making a jack-o-lantern (eyes, nose, mouth) for pumpkin
 prints just insert a popsicle stick, dip them in paint, and use them as stamps.
 You can docollages with the shapes, or have the kids actually make the class'
jack-o-lantern face on a sheet of paper pre-cut in pumpkin shape.

Hard boil some eggs. Dye them orange (like you do with Easter eggs).
 Cut paper towel tubes (not toilet paper tubes) into smaller rings about one inch
 in diameter. Decorate the rings with green paper or Easter grass.
 Place the eggs on the decorated tubes.

Materials Needed:
String or yarn,
6 6 in. pieces of string and 4 12 in. pieces of string,
diluted white glue or liquid starch,
dishes,
waxed paper

Directions:
Let the children dip pieces of string into dishes of glue or starch.
 Then have them lay their strings on waxed paper to create the spiders web.
 Lay the string in the shape of a spiral overlapping the ends. Lay the large
 pieces of string over the spiral in the shape of a cross. When
 the strings dry, they will become stiff and hold their shapes.

Materials Needed:
paper plates
black construction paper, cut into long thin strips
scissors
glue
string

Directions:
Cut eight long strips of black paper and a circle for the spider's head.
 Glue the two small paper plates together, top to top, with the legs
 and head placed between them. Paint the body black and glue a long piece
 of string to the middle of the back so the spider can dangle from the ceiling. 

Materials Needed:
Black and orange construction paper
glue
scissors

Directions:
Cut eight strips of black paper 1 1/2" x 9" 2. Cut one strip of black paper 2" x 22"
 (you could substitute two 11" pieces glued together). Cut the following:
 Large black circles, medium orange circles, and small black circles.
  Glue orange circle to edge of large black circle. Glue small black
 circle to edge of orange circle. Measure the 22" piece around child's
 head, overlap and glue ends together. Glue the eyes to the hat band
 with black eyes touching as shown. Fold the leg strips in half. Fold one
 end of each leg strip back 1". Glue the straight end to the inside edge of the
 hat band. Fold and glue the remaining legs.
 You will have four legs on each side of your hat.

Place these cute little scarecrows on your porch to welcome all the trick-or-treaters!
 Using a brown grocery bag, cut off the bottom of the bag, then flatten the bag.
 Fold in the corners, then staple. Stuff the bag with newspaper, etc. and staple
 the bottom closed. Turn the bag over and decorate with buttons, markers,
crayons, construction paper, fabric scraps, and anything else you can think of.

Trace hands on white paper. Cut out hands and put a face on the ghost.
 (FINGERS pointing down, wrist is top of ghost). Cut a 1/4 a circle (or circle )
 from yellow paper for the moon. Hold paper vertical. Decorate the bottom of the
 paper with a fence (brown), pumpkins. Take black construction paper and
 glue moon up in corner, fence on bottom and ghost up in the sky.

Let children assist you with making playdough. Add orange kool-aid powder
 to dough. give children Halloween cookie cutters to use with the playdough.

Provide the children with pipe cleaners to make spiders. Have the children
 twist the pipe cleaners together to form a body and legs.
 Discuss how many legs a spider has.

Blow up an orange balloon and let the child use a black marker, stickers, or finger
 paint to create facial features. Ask the child how does the jack o lantern feel? 

Have your children paint a paper plate orange. When dry, have the child glue on
 pieces of black construction paper for the facial features. These pieces may be
 cut with scissors or torn, depending on your child's ability level. For older children,
 try using glue to form the facial features and sprinkle glitter, or various items
 (i.e. buttons, beans, noodles, pebbles) on the glue.

Cut out or buy ghost shaped sponges. You will need black construction
 paper and white tempera paint when showing the child how to dip the
 sponges in the paint and press on the paper to make ghost prints. 

Use a smaller and larger paper plate to make these spiders. Staple the
 smaller plate onto the larger plate, as if the smaller plate will be the
 spider's head. Have the child paint both sides black. Then add black streamers
 for legs and white construction paper for eyes. Hang them from the ceiling.

Collect pumpkin seeds from inside a pumpkin. Let them air dry
 and have the children use the pumpkin seeds to make a collage. 

You need: dried pumpkin seeds from inside your pumpkin, two paper
 plates (for each child) and a stapler. Have the children put some seeds
 on one of the paper plates (bottom side down). Next, have them place
 the other plate on top of the first plate (bottom side up). Help the
 children staple their plates together with the seeds inside. Let the
 children paint, use markers or crayons to decorate their shakers. 

Give each of your children apiece of white butcher paper or construction paper.
 In the center of each piece of paper, place a spoonful of orange finger paint.
 Let the children use their hands and fingers to create designs with the paint.
 When they have finished, allow their papers to dry. Then cut the papers
into pumpkin shapes and display them around the room.

Have the children make orange fingerprints on a piece of paper.
 Use a non-toxic orange ink pad. Show the children how to use
 one finger at a time. Use a green pen to draw stems on the paper
 and draw vines to connect some of the pumpkins. (You can do this for
 younger children or have older children draw the vines and stems themselves.) 

Have the children use a black non-toxic ink pad to make fingerprints on a piece of
 paper. Have the children draw on eight legs on their fingerprints to represent spiders. 

Materials Needed:
Round Metal Cake Pan or Pie Pan,
Black Construction Paper,
White Paint,
Scissors,
Marble.

Directions:
Cut a piece of construction paper to fit into the bottom of the
cake pan. Place one-half teaspoon of white paint in the middle of the paper.
Drop the marble into the cake pan and tilt the pan back and forth. As the
marble passes through the paint it leaves trails of white on the paper.
 (I have also had the kids glue plastic spiders on their pictures when dried!)

Supply the children with large black gum drops and eight toothpicks per child.
 Have the children push the toothpicks in the gum drops to represent the spiders legs. 

Provide children with a chair and some yarn or string. Ask them to
 create a spiders web by wrapping the string around the legs of the chair. 

Buy an assortment of Halloween cookie cutters. Let the children
 dip the cookie cutters into paint and then press onto paper. 

Check out your local grocery store to find pasta in Halloween shapes. Let your
 kids create a cool collage with the pasta and whatever else you decide to add. 

Cut orange and black construction paper into 1" by 5" strips.
 Tape or paste one orange strip into a ring. Thread a black strip through
 the orange ring and paste or tape it closed. Continue adding rings to
 the chain, alternating the colors. When your chain is long enough,
 drape it across a doorway or window. Paste a Halloween picture
 at each end of the chain where it is attached  to the doorway or window.
 You can also buy orange & black streamers at party stores.

Boo Mask