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Children love to dress up and eat candy during Halloween.  They also like creating creepy crafts while at school or at home.  You may want to try making some of these edible creepy crafts with your children to give as treats at school or for trick-or-treaters.  You can also create non-edible creepy crafts.

Edible

Ghost suckers are usually a big hit with children.  They’re easy to make as well as fun.  All you need is some suckers, white tissues, white yarn, and a black marker.  Cover the wrapped sucker with the tissue, tie it on, and then decorate the face.

Candy corn and popcorn are other common Halloween treats.  Purchase some clear plastic food service gloves that you can fill.  Put the candy corn in the finger tips to denote fingernails.  Next fill the rest of the glove up with popcorn.  Tie a ribbon at the wrist to keep the popcorn inside.  If you’d like to make them spookier, place toy rings (bats, rats, skulls, or whatever you can find) on the ring finger.

You can also make popcorn balls and decorate them like large spiders.  Make popcorn balls (you can also use rice crispy treats) into small balls.  Attach red licorice ropes for the legs and the mouth and attach mini M&Ms for eyes. This is one spider the children won’t run away from.

Non-Edible

Craft stick mummies take a little more effort than some others, but the effect is worth it.  Adults will have to help with this craft because it takes wire snips to cut craft sticks to create the arms and legs (2 ½ and 3 inches, respectively).  Glue the limbs onto a wooden craft spoon and wrap the mummy with torn muslin.  Attach wiggle eyes.

Spiderman has been a hit among children of all ages for years.  If your little ones are enamored with the superhero, they may like to make a creepy crawly spider bracelet.  All you need is black construction paper, wiggle eyes, scissors, tape, white paper, and glue.  Fold the paper in half and trace the mid-palm and fingers only.  Cut that out to create the legs.  Make a bracelet by cutting a one-inch strip wide piece of paper and glue it to the spider; use tape to keep the bracelet closed.  Glue on wiggle eyes and white fangs.  Allow them to decorate as they like with glitter, stickers, or pieces of paper.

There are so many different types of crafts available for Halloween.  If you’re creating creepy crafts for school, you can find directions and ideas on many websites by using a search engine.  The choices are endless and limited only by the skill and ability level of your children.

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