1.Cut eight 1 1/2-inch pieces of black pipe cleaner and bend for spider's legs.
2. Glue one end of each pipe cleaner to the center of a glove. Then glue the other end to the glove, keeping the legs bent. (Glue a leg on each finger so the spider can "crawl" when your child puts it on.
3.Glue a large black pom-pom to center of glove to cover pipe cleaner ends. Glue on small purple pom-poms and googley eyes.

This idea was adapted from Parenting.com

Freaky Fliers

*Paint a cardboard toilet paper roll white; let dry.
* Stand a styrofoam egg in one end of the roll; glue to hold. Let dry.
* Drape a piece of white tissue paper, then a layer of gauze, over the craft, long enough to puddle slightly at the base. Pull tissue and gauze tight over the egg and tie a length of gauze around the ghost's "neck."
* Cut two ovals out of black construction paper and glue them on for eyes.

Adapted from Parenting.com

Pumpkin Maracas

* Cut out a section (top and bottom) of an egg carton and fill one side with dried beans.

* Glue the sides together, with an ice-pop stick coming out of the middle.

* Paint with orange paint, let dry, and push a green pipe cleaner into the top as a stem; slip on a green construction-paper "leaf" and bend pipe cleaner over in a loop.

Adapted from Parenting.com

No-Carve Pumpkin

You'll need:

* Black contact paper
* Empty water bottles
* Orange soda
* Green electrical tape

Cut jack-o'-lantern faces out of contact paper and stick on front of bottles. Fill with orange soda, twist caps on tightly, then cover caps with electrical tape.

Adapted from Parenting.com

Sock Spider

You'll need:

* Black adult-size tube sock
* Craft glue
* Wavy pipe cleaners
* Googly eyes
* Needle and black yarn

Turn the sock inside out. Starting at the open end, begin rolling the sock into itself until it forms a tight ball. Glue the bottom closed, and then glue four pipe cleaners, cut in half, to the bottom of the sock to create legs. Bend as you like. Glue two eyes to one side of the sock. Then, using an embroidery needle, knot and thread the yarn through the bottom, and hang from a window.

Adapted from Parenting.com

Bony Beads

You'll need:

* Craft glue
* Medium-size shell pasta
* Ziti pasta
* White craft paint
* Elastic string

To make "skeleton bones," glue two pasta shells, open side down, to each end of a piece of ziti; leave enough space in between to pull a string through. Paint each bone white, and let dry. String bones to desired length and knot the ends together.

Adapted from Parenting.com

Hallloween Treat Bags

Materials

Lunch bags: Brown, white or colored.
Scissors
Hole punch
White glue or a glue gun with glue sticks: Kids and hot glue don't mix, so make sure you do all the gluing!
Markers
Craft foam: In Halloween-y colors like orange, black, green and purple. Or use precut foam Halloween shapes.
Googly eyes
Rafia or ribbon: In Halloween colors.
Embellishments: Glitter glue, craft foam letters, shapes, rhinestones, etc.
Halloween treats

Bust out your craft foam or your craft foam shapes and put your kid to work assembling a Halloween-themed face to go on his bag.

If he plans to cut out his own faces, help him measure a piece of craft foam as wide as his paper bag and half as tall.

Have him draw the outline of the face he chooses: jack-o-lantern, pirate, witch, skeleton, Frankenstein, etc. He can get inspiration online! Help him cut it out.

Once the face shape is done (either cut out or pulled, precut, out of the package!), have your kid use more craft foam to put facial features on his face. He can cut out a big crooked witch nose, creepy Herman Munster hair or jack-o-lantern teeth.

Have him glue the features onto the face. While he's at it, have him glue on googly eyes if he wants to.

Next, hand him the markers and let him go to town adding smaller details (like the wart on the witch's nose).

Once the face is completely assembled, have your kid glue it on to the front of his lunch bag—leaving three inches at the top to fold down.

Then, help him glue craft foam letters onto his bag to spell his name or the names of his friends. (Remember to leave three inches at the top of the paper bag!)

Have your kid add some embellishments to the bag like rhinestones, spiders, foam Halloween treats and gold dubloons for a pirate face. Or he can just use glitter glue to make it boo-tiful!

When the bag is completely decorated, let your kid fill it up with Halloween treats.

Fold over the top of the bag one inch and use the hole punch to punch two holes through the top, two inches apart.

Finally, help your kid thread the rafia or Halloween ribbon through the holes and tie them into a bow in the front.

Let your kid run off to give the treat bags to his friends while you "clean up" any leftover Halloween candy.

Adapted from Parents Connect

Pasta Skeleton

This is a cute idea for a Halloween craft and easy for kids K-6.

This idea was adapted from Enchanted Learning