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Hello and welcome to Little Learners. t's my favourite time of year again, that's right
it's a spooky Halloween season! So I'm back with some Halloween crafts that you can try in
the class or at home. Don't forget if you end up liking this video to click the thumbs up button
and subscribe for more spooky and non-spooky videos! Let's get into it.
Cauldron sun-catcher. For this craft you're going to need some black card or paper, some tissue paper, PVA glue
and some kind of plastic surface. I'm using a laminating pouch but you could just as easily
recycle some plastic covering that something's been delivered in, just some kind of clear plastic,
and you'll want to cover this in PVA glue. Then you can start tearing and placing your tissue paper.
Children don't need to be exact with this, it's supposed to be a real
mish-mash of colours and sizes and shapes. So they can really just get creative with this and
really make it their own. Just make sure that once tissue paper has been placed down
you're then putting some PVA glue on top because this will seal it all in.
Once all of the tissue paper has been placed and stuck down do a final layer of PVA glue on
top to make sure everything is covered because this will be really important during the drying
process. So you can see here I'm just making sure that I'm doing a thick layer of PVA glue on top
and I've also added a sprinkle of glitter because I can't help myself. Don't forget
there are sustainable options available. So while that's drying let's make our cauldrons. First I'm
going to take my black card and fold it in half so that when I cut out a cauldron they will both be
exactly the same. I'm going to draw my cauldron shape, you can of course print something out or
use a stencil if you have one, I've just done mine free hand. I appreciate it's probably a
little bit difficult to see on camera but then I've cut that out so that I have two of them.
We're going to be cutting a hole in the middle because we want our tissue paper suncatcher
part to show in the middle of the cauldron so I'm just cutting out a circle of each of them
like so and then it gets to the fun bit. So once your tissue paper and PVA glue has dried you're
going to peel it off of that plastic backing which is why we used the plastic in the first place,
it also comes off really cleanly so you can probably use the plastic again.
Now we have our semi-transparent tissue paper and as you can see
it will pop through the little hole that we've made and create a kind of window.
So now all you need to do is glue on each one of your cauldron pieces. I'm doing the first one
here, covering it in PVA glue and then just sticking it down on top of the tissue paper
to make sure that the entire hole is covered.
Just pressing it down there and once I've put that on and it's really stuck down and dried.
I'm just going to go around and cut the edges of my tissue paper off so that you
can only see our lovely colourful creation through the little peephole in the cauldron.
Once that's done I just turn it over and stick the other side of the cauldron on. And there you
have it! Put it on your window and watch the light shine through your magical cauldron sun-catcher.
Blowing ghosts. For this craft you're going to need some black card or paper, some white paint,
a straw and a black felt tip.
So this is pretty simple, all we're going to do is put a blob of paint on our paper
and then use a straw to blow at the paint to create our ghost shape. Now of course ghosts come
in all shapes and sizes so they really don't have to look a certain way, children can just have a lot
of fun exploring blowing the paint in different directions and creating different shapes with it.
This is great fun and certainly a craft where every child comes out with a different end product.
Once the ghosts have dried you just need to draw your faces on, so you could use some googly eyes
or some other kind of decoration. I'm just using a black felt tip pen here.
I've created some that might be saying 'boo!', I've created some that are smiling. You can leave it
on the paper like this and display just as it is or put them on lolly sticks to create
little ghost puppets or they can hang them from somewhere so it looks like the ghosts are floating.
X-ray hand or skeleton. For this craft you're going to need some black card, you may have sensed
a theme here [laughs], a pencil, some cotton buds or q-tips, whatever you like to call them, and some PVA glue.
First of all children just need to draw around their hand. I realise it's quite difficult to see
the actual drawing that I've made so I do then go over it in white pencil for the sake of
this video. Once the children have drawn around their hand, get them to take a look at their hand,
really feel all the different bones in there, get them to manoeuvre their hands in different ways
so they can feel their hand moving and lots of different bones and different parts in their hand,
because we're going to be moving on to the bones of the hand now.
You may also want to talk to children about x-rays before doing this activity and show them some real
ones that you can find online or you might just tell them that you're making spooky skeleton hands.
Totally up to you! Now we don't need children to be anatomically correct when they're doing this, this
really is just a creative project so we're not expecting them to come up with the exact amount
of bones in the hand. You can cut up some of the cotton buds to make smaller pieces of bone if you
want to and it's really lovely because again it's something that children can be quite individual
with. Some of them will completely cover the entire hand with bones and some of them will really be
concentrating on the bones they can feel in their hand. Once it's dry children can compare their hand
to their x-ray that they've made. You can display it just as it is as you might see it in a hospital
or you can cut it out and display just the hand without a background.
Wrapped up mummy. For this craft, you've guessed it, you'll need some black card, a pencil,
some string or some wool or some ribbon, and some googly eyes for good measure.
First of all we're just going to draw our little person. I'm drawing a kind of,
I suppose it's a stick man, but I'm going to call it a balloon man because it's not sticks!
And cut it out, this does not have to be exact and that's on purpose because we want to try and
encourage the children to draw and cut out their own little person, but if children are too young to
be doing that you can do it yourself first, you can also buy pre-made little people like this.
And then children just use whatever string you have and wrap it around the person. This
is creating a kind of 'mummy' look but it's also a fantastic fine motor activity and really creative
too. They can make lots of different decisions about how they want their ribbon or string to look,
which way it's going to go, are they going to wrap everything the same way, are they going to
do lots of criss-crosses, totally up to them. And once they're done they can add in those googly
eyes there just to make it a little bit more spooky or friendly depending on what you think.
They can display it with it sitting down, hanging from something or even put it on a background
of a spooky scene that you've made.
Spooky spiders. For this craft you're going to need a paper plate,
something to decorate the paper plate with - you can use paint, colouring pencils, I'm just using
tissue paper for speed - a bit of string and you guessed it some black card, and that all important
PVA glue, also some googly eyes if you have them. So as I mentioned you can decorate the paper plate
however you wish. Children might want to paint it, they might want to decorate it
with stickers, however you like. I've just used some tissue paper because it's really easy and
quick to wrap it up, you can also of course buy paper plates that are already coloured.
Next you want to cut out eight strips from your black card for our eight spider legs.
We're going to be sticking our spider legs just
on the back of the edge of the paper plate, so they're sticking out like this. But first we want
to make them springy, so we're going to be doing a concertina fold, which is a really simple fold.
You just fold one way then fold back the other way, then forward again, then back like I'm doing here.
Keep going until you have folded the entire strip of card and then when you pull it out
you'll see you have a nice springy leg there. So do the same to all of the other seven spider's legs,
stick them onto the plate and now you have your spider's body and legs, it just needs a face.
I decided to add some googly eyes to my spider because I wanted him to look quite friendly,
I gave him a smile as well and some fangs because it is Halloween.
Children can of course decorate and give personality to their spider in whatever way
they want. Finally we're going to end with poking a hole through the top of our paper plate, attaching
the string for a web, and then you can display your spider. As you can see here I used some
other colours so some plates that were already coloured, I did slightly different faces for some
of the spiders, I mix and match the colours of the legs, there's really lots you can do with this and
then you can hang up all of your spiders!
So I hope you enjoyed these crafts if you did please give this video a thumbs up, if you plan to or do actually have a go at any of these let me know
in the comments below I would love to know how it goes. Let me know in the comments below which one
was your favourite, I'd be really interested to hear, and don't forget that on this channel I do love
Halloween so I do have some other Halloween videos including some more Halloween crafts that you can
do with children, some pumpkin decorating that you don't have to use carving for so there's no
knives involved, some Halloween sensory activities to develop those fine motor skills and of course
it wouldn't be the Little Learners channel without some phonics, so I've also got some
Halloween phonics on the channel too. I'll put all of that in the description box down below.
Thank you so much for watching, have a spooky Halloween and I will see you next time.
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