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Craft Tutorials | Holiday Crafts | Halloween Crafts | Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner

Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner

Author by Amanda Davis on October 11, 2017 Updated on January 15, 2019

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This Halloween handprint ghoul banner is a great project for the kids to make and hang on the door to greet trick or treaters. It lets them get creative by drawing the faces and it also makes a wonderful group project. If you’re having a Halloween party, set the supplies out and as guests arrive, have them create a handprint ghoul to add to a full Halloween party banner that just keeps on growing!

Make this adorable Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner with the kids to hang on the door! A great way to greet trick or treaters. Would be a fun troop or classroom project too!

 

Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner

Halloween brings out the creativity in me more than any other time of year. Not even Christmas conjures up the ideas that go through my head at Halloween. If you visit this blog regularly, you know I am obsessed with creating fun crafts for kids that use inexpensive or recycled supplies. I know that when I was a young mother I didn’t want to have to run out to the craft store just to make a project with my little ones, especially with the attention spans they had.

Much like my other kid’s projects, this handprint craft uses very minimal supplies, most of which you probably have on hand. Shall we get on with it then?

Make this adorable Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner with the kids to hang on the door! A great way to greet trick or treaters. Would be a fun troop or classroom project too!

 

Supplies you will need:

  • Construction paper: white, black, yellow, green, red, purple, black and orange
  • Black marker (or crayon)
  • White paint pen (or crayon)
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick


How to Make a Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner

On any one of the colored papers trace your child’s hand. Stack green, yellow, purple, red, orange and black sheets on top of each other with the traced handprint sheet on top.

Tip: to keep the sheets together you can paperclip them on all four sides.

Cut out the handprint, cutting through all six sheets at once. If you prefer, do each one individually or only 2 or 3 at once. Whatever works best for you!

With fingers of the cutouts pointing downward, have children draw faces on the handprints.

Fold a sheet of white construction paper in half lengthwise. Open up and cut along the crease. Attach the two lengths of white paper together with a glue stick, end to end.

Make this adorable Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner with the kids to hang on the door! A great way to greet trick or treaters. Would be a fun troop or classroom project too!

Repeat this step with a sheet of black paper as well, only this time after folding in half, trim off about 1/2″ from the long ends and the same on the short ends. The idea is to make the black the foreground color, placing it on top of the white banner, making the white banner the border.

After you trim the black sheet, go ahead and cut it in half lengthwise like you did with the white one and glue on top of the white sheets.

Attach the handprint ghouls to the bottom of the banner with the glue stick. Use a white paint pen or white crayon to write Happy Halloween across the banner. Hang!

Make this adorable Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner with the kids to hang on the door! A great way to greet trick or treaters. Would be a fun troop or classroom project too!

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If you think this project looks fun, you might like my creepy hand luminaries, also great for a Halloween party! Another craft I recommend are these cardboard tube ghouls, so colorful and fun! These Halloween treat cups and these bleeding place cards are also great for a party as is this Kitty Litter Cake! Hope you have fun crafting for Halloween, and be sure to let me know if you make my Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner. :)

This post was originally published on this blog on September 25, 2010.

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Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner

Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

  • Construction paper: white black, yellow, green, red, purple, black and orange
  • Black marker or crayon
  • White paint pen or crayon
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick

Instructions

  • On any one of the colored papers trace your child's hand. Stack green, yellow, purple, red, orange and black sheets on top of each other with the traced hand print sheet on top.
  • Tip: to keep the sheets together you can paper clip them on all four sides.
  • Cut out the handprint, cutting through all six sheets at once. If you prefer, do each one individually or only 2 or 3 at once. Whatever works best for you!
  • With fingers of the cut outs pointing downward, have children draw faces on the hand prints.
  • Fold a sheet of white construction paper in half lengthwise. Open up and cut along crease. Attach the two lengths of white paper together with glue stick, end to end.
  • Repeat this step with a sheet of black paper as well, only this time after folding in half, trim off about 1/2" from the long ends and the same on the short ends. The idea is to make the black the foreground color, placing it on top of the white banner, making the white banner the border.
  • After you trim the black sheet, go ahead and cut it in half lengthwise like you did with the white one and glue on top of the white sheets.
  • Attach the hand print ghouls to the bottom of the banner with glue stick. Use white paint pen or white crayon to write Happy Halloween across the banner. Hang!
Make this adorable Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner with the kids to hang on the door! A great way to greet trick or treaters. Would be a fun troop or classroom project too!
This Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner is perfect for hanging on your door to greet trick or treaters this Halloween! So fun for the kids to make.
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  1. Denise M. says

    October 22, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    This was so cute and easy to do with my 2 yr old. I prepped in advance the eyes and mouths. We traced his hand and glued together.

    Reply
  2. tiffany says

    October 19, 2015 at 8:21 am

    Love this!! We’re sharing today over at our Play Eat Grow Great Halloween Roundup! :)

    http://www.playeatgrow.com/2015/10/greathalloweenroundup2015.html/

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      October 25, 2015 at 4:40 pm

      Thanks so nice of you!

      Reply
  3. MamaGames says

    October 3, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks for the fun craft with supplies I could send my daughter into the other room to grab! :) We made this banner this afternoon and the kids are so proud. I Pinned your post, hope that’s okay!

    Reply
    • Amanda says

      October 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm

      How fun, so glad you guys had a good time!

      Reply
  4. melissa says

    September 13, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Cute idea! You have been linked on my blog! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  5. Amanda says

    April 10, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    Sounds like so much fun, so glad they had a good time!

    Reply
  6. Anonymous says

    April 9, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    We made this in our after-school program. The children had a great time with this one. The expressions on the ghosts where a hoot!

    Reply
  7. Amanda says

    October 12, 2010 at 11:57 am

    Thanks again Michelle!

    Reply
  8. Michelle says

    October 11, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    I'm sure they will! I think I'm going to make it even easier by pre-cutting eye and mouth shapes so that all they have to do is pick and choose which ones they'd like. Maybe even have some google eyes. Won't have them make the whole banner, just the hands for them to take home. This is such a nice, simple idea for the younger kids to do. I look forward to seeing what other ideas you have on here!

    ~Michelle

    Reply
  9. Amanda says

    October 11, 2010 at 1:49 am

    Hi Michelle! Glad you made it over and that you like this project! :) It's definitely an easy one that kids will really like. Thanks for coming by, I hope the kids enjoy it!

    Reply
  10. Michelle says

    October 11, 2010 at 1:41 am

    Jason has been telling me you had a craft blog as well as a food one and I FINALLY remembered to check it out! You have some really great ideas, and I LOVE this one. I've been looking for a simple Halloween craft to do with my CCD preschoolers, and this would be perfect!

    ~Michelle (Jay's wife) :)

    Reply
  11. Amanda says

    October 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Thank you all so much!

    Reply
  12. Danielle Hunter says

    October 7, 2010 at 3:22 am

    These are fun! I would love to do this project with my girls and I'll be sharing the link on my blog tomorrow!

    Reply
  13. Connie says

    October 2, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    I love that idea. My 7yr daughter made one today. It's going on my blog and I'll refer back to you.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  14. Tanya says

    October 1, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    This is very cute…I might just have to try this with my boys :)

    Reply
  15. Cristie says

    October 1, 2010 at 1:46 am

    So cute, what a great idea.

    Reply
  16. amandab says

    September 30, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    What a great and simple decoration. Sadly, Halloween isn't that popular over in Oz :(

    Reply
  17. Lori@Paisley Passions says

    September 30, 2010 at 5:14 am

    What a cute idea!!! I really like how that turned out. It would be a great idea for a teacher to use in a classroom too!

    ~Lori @ Paisley Passions
    Paisley Passions Linky Party Thrilling Thursdays

    Reply
  18. Megan @ Polish The Stars.com says

    September 29, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    I love all of your Halloween crafts and I can't wait to try some of them out for myself! I just wanted to let you know that I passed a blog award on to you! :) http://www.polishthestars.com/2010/09/pinching-pennies-and-blog-awards.html

    Reply
  19. RedTedArt says

    September 29, 2010 at 12:52 pm

    You are the Halloween Queen!! So many fabulous ideas!!! And all as "easy as the next", but so great to look at!

    Thank you for linking up :-)

    Maggy

    Reply
  20. Sassy Sites! says

    September 28, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    Super cute! I found you at the Today's Creative Blog hop! Come by and visit me at Sassy Sites! We have a giveaway going on AND a header contest. Come by and check it out. xoxo

    Marni @ Sassy Sites!

    Reply
  21. Daisy Day says

    September 28, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    We love this!! So fun…so easy….so going to make one!! You are amazing.

    Reply
  22. RosannaRox says

    September 28, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    SO So CUTE!! Totally making this TODAY!! Halloween Crafts all week!

    Reply
  23. Becky @ Our Sweet Peas says

    September 28, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Love this. I will be doing this with my twin boys. I love handprint crafts to remind me of how they are growing from year to year. Thanks!

    Reply
  24. Jennifer Juniper says

    September 28, 2010 at 11:59 am

    It will be so fun to pull these out every year and compare hand prints!

    Reply
  25. Krista says

    September 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    Cuteness galore! I'm makin' one tomorrow with my three year old! Thanks!

    Reply
  26. Jenglamgirl says

    September 27, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    how cute and creative. I love that the kids are involved too. Great job. Jen

    Reply
  27. Megan says

    September 27, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    What a darling banner! You do the best kids crafts. I love all your ideas

    Reply
  28. Amanda says

    September 27, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Thanks you guys! :)

    Reply
  29. Anji* says

    September 27, 2010 at 9:46 am

    What a lovely idea! They look really cool and spooky!

    Reply
  30. Sandra says

    September 26, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    Cute. I love the idea of making using handprints. We used to take our daughter's handprints every year but dropped the tradition years back. (I have no idea why). Love it.

    Reply
  31. Kathryn says

    September 26, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    I love this idea! Thanks for sharing this with us.

    Reply
  32. Amanda says

    September 26, 2010 at 1:53 am

    Thanks! That's a great compliment coming from the handprint craft queen! :))

    Reply
  33. artsy_momma says

    September 26, 2010 at 1:37 am

    I love it! And I love that I have never seen that idea before :)

    Reply
  34. Amanda says

    September 25, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks Amy! Would love to see yours too!

    Reply
  35. Amanda says

    September 25, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    Thanks so much Lorie! Would love to see it if you made it!

    Reply
  36. Amy says

    September 25, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    Love it! We will be making this at our house!

    Reply
  37. Lorie says

    September 25, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    PS – Thanks for linking up to Show and Tell Saturday!!

    Reply
  38. Lorie says

    September 25, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Amanda! I love it! We are going to have to use that idea tomorrow night for Family night! I think I will make them as a garland for my fireplace!

    Reply
  39. Amanda says

    September 25, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    Thanks you guys!

    Reply
  40. Jenny @ Embellishing Life says

    September 25, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Now this is cute! Loving your blog. I am now your newest follower :)
    http://embellishinglifeeveryday.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  41. Jean says

    September 25, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    This is so cute. I think my niece would like to make something like this.

    Reply
  42. John, Anna & Rebecca says

    September 25, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    What a cute idea! I host a childrens preschool art class and I think we will have to do this craft! I love it!

    Anna
    http://wastedbandwidth.org

    Reply
  43. Anonymous says

    September 25, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Adorable! makin' one tomorrow. Thanks

    Reply
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