Halloween
Alternative Crafts and
Activities for Kids
Crafts
and Learning Activities Relating to
Halloween and Fall
Candy
Corn Book
 Candy
Corn Stars
Written by Nancy Foss
"One
candy corn just for me.
Two candy corns make me smile with glee.
Three candy corns
of yellow, orange, and white.
What a colorful sight.
Four candy corns I hold in my hand to share.
Five candy corns
I place on my plate with care.
A star, a star of candy corns so sweet.
Thank you, God, for this special treat.
Directions
and patterns for this craft are available to members only.
You will also find other crafts and activities to go along with this theme on the members only section: a candy corn rhyme, math, and baking.
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It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author.
Sweet Treat for the Soul Craft
 These little candy corns can be tied
to candy treats and given out to trick-or-treaters as a witnessing
tool. Children color the front and write a Bible verse on the back.
Adults can help them pick out verses that are "sweet treats"
for the soul. The front of the candy corn says, "You
picked a sweet treat from my bowl and here is a sweet treat for your
soul."
What
you will need: Card stock (heavy paper), a hole punch, ribbon,
a yellow and an orange Highlighter Marker.
How to make:
1.
Print out the pattern or draw your own candy corn treats. (Pattern
available to members only. Go to the Candy Corn Page for a pattern.)
2.
Decide which Bible verses you would like to use and then write them
on the back of the candy corn.
3.
Color the front of the candy corn with orange and yellow Highlighter
Markers and write at the bottom, "You
picked a sweet treat from my bowl and here is a sweet treat for your
soul." and then cut them out.
4.
Punch a hole at the top and tie them to a candy treat so they are
ready to give out on Halloween night.
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Give your Trick or Treaters Sweet Treats for Their Souls
Memory Crosses are a great way to share the gospel this Halloween. Children enjoy folding and unfolding them while more of God's sweet words are revealed with each fold. They're hard to put down because they are so intriguing.
Go to Memory Cross to order yours today!
Sweet Treat Interactive Halloween Tracts
This is a fun and interactive way to share the sweet story of Jesus on Halloween with your trick-or-treaters!
Children will enjoy reading their origami-style Memory Crosses over and over again.
These are not available on Danielle's Place, but you can go to the Memory Cross web site to order yours today!
Shine
for Jesus! Mini Craft Booklet
This craft goes along with the book "The Pumpkin Patch Parable"
by Liz Curtis Higgs.
This charming story for children illustrates how a loving farmer can turn a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight. Liz Curtis Higgs weaves a beautiful parable as the farmer picks out a special pumpkin from his garden, and scoops out all the messy "goo" to make room for his light to shine from inside. In the same way, God's transforming love can fill each of our hearts with joy and light. Liz Cutis Higgs originally created this parable as a way to share the Good News with her own precious children each harvest season. After 10 years, she has touched children everywhere! Recommended for ages 3 to 7.
 Make this "Shine for Jesus!" Card to go along with the story. The inside of the card says, "Jesus
takes the yucky stuff away so our light shines all night and day!"
When you open the poem page and close the cover, the yucky stuff
disappears and the pumpkin shines!
What
you will need: Legal-size paper (8 1/2" x 14"), dried pumpkin
seeds, orange and yellow yarn, glue, green and yellow construction
paper, and crayons or colored pencils.
How to make the pumpkin booklet:
1.
Print out the booklet pattern onto legal-size paper. (Printing Problems?)
This pattern is also available in Hungarian.
(If you would like this pattern translated into your language, email us the translation and we will put it up.)
 2. Cut along the
outside edge of the booklet. Then cut out the pumpkin's eyes, nose, and mouth .
3. Color the picture of the pumpkin.
4. Cut a stem
from green construction paper and glue it to the back of the pumpkin (to the inside of the card).
 5. Cut a piece of yellow construction paper 4" x 3.5" and glue it to the inside of the card in the middle panel so that when you fold the pumpkin picture over the yellow paper shows through the eyes, nose, and mouth.
4. Glue pumpkin seeds and yarn pieces where it says, "Glue yucky stuff here".
5. Fold the poem and yucky stuff page in (to the left) to cover the yellow middle page. Fold the pumpkin picture (cover)
over the yucky stuff page so that the yucky stuff shows through the pumpkin.
Children open up the card and read the poem, then fold the pumpkin picture back over the yellow square leaving the right side of the card open so that the yellow shows through the pumpkin face.
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Comments and Ideas from Subscribers:
I bought some "mini pumpkin" gourds at the grocery store
for the kids to decorate with happy faces (permanent markers work
best, but I watched that they don't mark each other). I printed
small versions of the "pumpkin" story. I punched holes
in the stories to slip a ribbon through. I hot-glued the ribbon
to the tops of the pumpkins. The kids loved doing this. Then, the
kids gave these pumpkins to their favorite "pumpkins"
to share the love, Sandy
I did this lesson in my Wednesday night class, it was preschoolers.
I printed the material, but before we did the craft I brought in
a real pumpkin and just cut the top off so they could reach their
hands inside to see what the real yucky stuff was like, as I told
the story. They thought it was great. Then I read the story from
the book, The Parable of the Pumpkin, that I bought at the Christian
Book store, and then made the craft. I bought real pumpkin seeds
at the grocery store. I really like all the holiday lessons and
crafts you always have, I hope you have some Thanksgiving and Christmas
ones for the coming months! Thank you, Barbara from Ohio
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Milk Jug Monster Treat Container Craft for Kids
Place treats in this whimsical milk jug monster and your visitors will have a fun time snatching them from its mouth!
What you will need: Empty plastic milk jug, craft foam, large googly eyes, hot melt glue, scissors, acrylic paint or spray paint, and a feather boa for the hair.
How to make:
1. Wash and dry the plastic milk jug. Cut a mouth shape on the opposite sides of the handle as shown in the picture.
2. Paint the jug with acrylic paint or spray paint it. Spray paint works best because the craft foam legs, wings, and arms stick better to the spray paint than they do to the acrylic paint.
3. Cut hands, feet, teeth, wings, and whatever else you would like on your monster from craft foam and glue them to the jug. The teeth were glued to the inside of the jug.
4. To finish glue on large googly eyes and drip red acrylic paint inside the mouth, on the top teeth, and down in between the front lower teeth. Let the paint dry and then fill the mouth with candy.
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Here is Marissa Proctor's version of the Monster Milk Jug Craft, the Bat Milk Jug Craft and the Milk Jug Pumpkin Craft on this page. I love the ears on the pumpkin.
Milk Jug Pumpkin Treat Container Craft for Kids
Place treats in this crazy milk jug pumpkin and your visitors will have a fun time collecting their treats!
What you will need: Empty plastic milk jug, craft foam, large googly eyes, hot melt glue, scissors, acrylic paint or spray paint, and green and brown crepe paper.
How to make:
1. Wash and dry the plastic milk jug. Cut a mouth shape on the opposite sides of the handle as shown in the picture.
2. Paint the jug with acrylic paint or spray paint it.
3. Cut teeth shapes from craft foam and glue them to the inside of the jug.
4. Cut a 12" x 4" length of brown crepe paper and twist it around the milk jug top. Glue it to the top when it looks the way you would like. Cut leaves from green crepe paper and glue them to the stem.
5. To finish glue on large googly eyes and fill the mouth with candy.
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Milk Jug Spider Treat Container Craft for Kids
Place treats in this scary milk jug spider and your visitors will have a fun time trying to retrieve them.
What you will need: Empty plastic milk jug, craft foam, large googly eyes, newspaper, hot melt glue, black duck tape, black acrylic paint or black spray paint, tape, and wire or pipe cleaners.
How to make:
1. Wash and dry the plastic milk jug. Cut a line from side to side at the top of the jug about one inch below where the jug starts to form the top of the jug as shown in the picture.
2. Cut a one-inch section from the handle so that the top of the jug can be bent back and the mouth opened. Tape the remaining handle together so that the mouth stays open.
3. To make the legs place two pieces of newspaper together and line them up. Roll the two pieces into a tube starting from one corner and go to the corner diagonally from the one you start with. Tape the roll in the center and then fold it in half and cut it. Make eight legs altogether. Glue the legs to the milk jug. If you are using acrylic paint, you must glue the legs to the jug before you paint it. If you glue them to the paint they will just pull the paint off the jug and fall off. If you use spray paint, you can paint the jug first.
4. Paint the entire jug and the legs black.
5. Cut fangs from craft foam and glue them to the top of the mouth. To finish glue on googly eyes. Place treats in the spider's mouth.
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"I Vant to Give You a Treat!" Milk Jug Bat Treat Container Craft for Kids
 What you will need: Empty plastic milk jug, black, white, red and brown craft foam, large googly eyes, hot melt glue, black duck tape, black acrylic paint or black spray paint, tape, and wire or pipe cleaners.
How to make:
1. Wash and dry the plastic milk jug. Cut a line from side to side at the top of the jug about one inch below where the jug starts to form the top of the jug as shown in the picture.
2. Cut a one-inch section from the handle so that the top of the jug can be bent back and the mouth opened. Tape the remaining handle together with duck tape so that the mouth stays open.
3. Paint the jug black and let dry.
4. Cut bat wing shapes from craft foam and glue them to the sides of the jug. Cut fangs, a tongue, and feet from fun foam and glue them to the jug. To finish glue on googly eyes. Place treats in the bat's mouth.
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