Looking for a super cheap, super fun Halloween craft that you can involve the kids in? My soon-to-be 4 year old and 18 month old had a blast making our “Happy Little Ghosts” craft. All you need is a box of tissues, cotton balls, thread and a needle (you do the thread and needle part, kids can do the tissues and cotton balls part)! 🙂

Supplies (makes 10 ghosts)

• 10 tissues
• 10 cotton balls
• Spool of white sewing thread
• Needle (for sewing thread)
• Scissors (for cutting thread)

Directions

• Thread needle with 2 feet+ of thread, and center the needle in the middle of the thread
• Tie the ends together in a knot, so that you now have a double thread
• Lay a tissue on a flat surface (kid activity!)
• Place a cotton ball in the center of the tissue (kid activity!)
• Gather edges and pick up tissue, holding it so that the cotton ball is completely covered and cinch up the tissue where the ghost neck will be (kid activity!)
• Stick needle just below covered ball and make two circles around head and cinch up (parent activity here and rest of craft! :))
• Stick needle into ‘neck’ and up into cotton ball, so that it comes out on the top of the head
• Pull upward, cut needle off string, tie strings together with a knot
• Voila! One done! On to the next one! Ava was running such a little ghost craft factory that I could not keep up. Anders meanwhile was having lots of fun pulling tissues out and tossing cotton balls all over.

Tip:  You get a different effect if you wrinkle the tissues a bit (which is why this is such a great kid craft) and you can do this at the first step or even after the ghosts are hung! 🙂