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!
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.
Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner
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?
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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
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!
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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! Also, I found these cute Handprint Spider Lacing Cards on Sara’s blog, and these cute handprint spider canvases on Courtney’s blog. Hope you have fun crafting for Halloween, and be sure to let me know if you make my Halloween Handprint Ghoul Banner. :)
- Construction paper: white, black, yellow, green, red, purple, black and orange
- Black marker (or crayon)
- White paint pen (or crayon)
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- 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 ½" 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!
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Love this!! We’re sharing today over at our Play Eat Grow Great Halloween Roundup! :)
http://www.playeatgrow.com/2015/10/greathalloweenroundup2015.html/
Thanks so nice of you!