i think decorating simple masks (lone ranger style) that you buy at the dollar store should be an easy craft that transcends your various ages.

well you can do pumpkin painting, make masks from black art paper... keep storytime in dark with dim lights.. best costume stuff... thats all i can think of right now

John and I will get a white shower liner curtain from out local dollar store.  Cut into 12" squares, find the center, then stuff with cotton fluff, kleenex, paper towel, anything really, then make a face with perminent marker...for little ghosts.  When making the head, tie enough string round  neck so you can loop 'ghost' in a tree....very cute, easy, and fun....look pretty cool too if you have about 20 of them in one tree....all blowing in the wind.

Also for christmas decorations, we have started to collect acorn shells, let them dry out, paint red or green, makes little bells, with a tough of ribbon, or an ornament hook poked through with a very slim sharp poke to make a small  hole for ornament h ook, or a touch of ribbon, with a knot on bottom for bell, then about an inch up another knot ribbon pushed through top to hang o n tree.

Good luck, Take care, Simba1

Paint faces on pumpkins... I went to the botanical gardens here in Montreal today, and they had some really well done pumpkins..

Kids stuck all sorts of things on them... Bottle caps, paper, stickers, spaghetti...

You could just give them a pumpkin and tell them to put a face on it...

Thanks all.....these ideas really help!!

you could make scary masks like black cats, bats, ghosts, pumpkins, spiders..., all u need is paper / cardboard and some elastic and a hole punch, that way all ages can get involved.

 

Hi Julie,

I use to run craft classes for children, ages from 2yr - 14yr... I used many web sites and i found this one very useful... www.makingfriends.com it has loads of things, of all levels...

Another, is www.dltk-holidays.com

Good Luck

Regards

Frogie xox

 

When my kids were too young to help carve pumpkins we would buy the mini pumpkins ( they are usually no more that.50 cent per) and break out the markers feathers and other crafts things , they could draw a silly or scary face whatever they wanted , use the feathers and some glue to make the pumpkins some hair , lol , they always had fun making them and showing them off