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! 🙂
Really soon to be 4??? Where has the time gone! Loving your DIYs! xxx
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Thanks Kate! Esther actually did this post 😊. Her daughter is almost a year older than Maya 😊 Time is flying, but not that fast, thank goodness! We’ve been loving doing them! If only there were more time in the day to post more!! Haha xx Lauren
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