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 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?

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.

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!

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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!