More Halloween Ideas for Kids!
Be crafty on Halloween by making Pumpkin Art, molding glow-in-the-dark clay into Ghost Pencil Pals, and whipping up Witchy Ice Cream Cones and Yummy Mummies.
Bring out your inner Dr. Frankenstein by baking a batch of Monster Cookies and crafting creepy Halloween cards for your friends and family.
A fun twist on the traditional ice cream cone. The kids will love making the witch faces to add to their ice cream dessert.
Ingredients
- green ice cream
- sugar ice cream cone
- fruit roll
- Candy corn
- M&Ms
Steps
- Place a scoop of green ice cream on a plate.
- Put a sugar ice cream cone on the scoop as the witches' hat.
- Decorate the witches' hat by using frosting to apply M&M's.
- Cut up strips of fruit roll to use as the witches' hair and apply with frosting
- Make the witches' face by using frosting to apply 3D sugar eyes, a candy corn nose, and a red M&M for a mouth that says, "OHHHHHH!"
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes

Great idea for decorating Halloween cupcakes, cookies, or even preztel sticks.
Ingredients
- white fondant
- pretzel sticks
- cookies
Steps
- Cut strips of ready-to-use white fondant, a type of sugar clay, into mummy bandages.
- Apply strips "mummy style" on to frosted cookies, cupcakes, even pretzel sticks.
- Adhere 3D bloodshot sugar eyes to your mummy using frosting.
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Create spooky monsters on your Halloween cookies!
Steps
- Tint white frosting green using food coloring and spread on cookies.
- Cut out shapes of ready-to-use colored fondant to make monster hair and facial features.
- Accent your monster with 3D sugar mini eyeballs.
- Make more Halloween cookies by decorating with 3D sugar spiders, bats and more.
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Just about everything under the sun... or a Halloween moon has been done to a pumpkin.
Here's how to add pizzazz to your pumpkins:
Here's how to add pizzazz to your pumpkins:
Preparation
Studded Pumpkins
- Draw a simple Halloween image, like a bat or Jack-O-Lantern face, on a pumpkin and push in metal studs along the image lines.
- You’ll find a colorful assortment of studs at most craft stores and make sure to get “nailhead studs” with the prongs on the back.
- Use a paint dauber to easily dab colorful polka dots on to a pumpkin.

Here's how to go for the glow:
Preparation
- Purchase green glow-in-the-dark clay.
Steps
- Form a ghost using green glow-in-the dark clay.
- Roll black clay into little balls and stick them on your ghost for the eyes.
- Use a toothpick to make a hole for the mouth.
- Try this craft with Amazing Eraser Clay too!
Here's how to go for the glow.
Preparation
- Purchase iron-on transfer paper or a computer printable fabric sheet, a black t-shirt and fabric paint.
Steps
- Copy a photo of your child on to iron-on transfer paper or a printable fabric sheet.
- Cut out the image and apply it to the front of a black t-shirt per the transfer paper or fabric sheet manufacturer’s instructions.
- Mix a glow-in-the-dark medium with fabric paint to highlight the eyes, teeth and any other features on the image that you want to glow in the dark!

Take a trip to a craft or scrapbook store and get inspired by all the supplies they have ranging from Halloween stickers to card kits.
Here's how to create creepy crafty cards:
Web-O-Rama
- Personalize the front of the card with spider stickers and a silly title, "World Wide Web."
- Glue a cotton web inside a card and add a spider sticker.
Monster Mash & Witch Smash
- Make a monster or a witch out of construction paper and crumple it up.
- Glue the crumpled monster or witch inside the card and title the card, "Monster Mash" or "Witch Smash"!
Preparation
- Purchase construction paper and spider stickers.



















This looks like a sugar high waiting to happen. Gonna try it out at home tonite.