Quick Halloween Craft Idea - Witch's hands!

This is a handprint craft with a difference! You need only a

few inexpensive supplies which you will probably have lying

around the house. It is an easy craft to do with a crowd of

children and the results are great for decorating the house or

classroom. Best of all, you will end up with a fun memento to

keep and look back on as the children grow.

You will need:

Green card or paper

Scraps of black, red or purple card, paper, felt, tissue paper

etc

Pencils and pens

White glue

Instructions:

Draw around the children's hands onto the green card. Older

children can pair up and draw round each other’s hands. Cut out

carefully.

Use the scraps of paper or card to cut pointed oval shapes for

long, spiky finger nails and stick them on - embellishing, if

you like, with glitter or stickers.

Draw some spidery veins onto the hands, using your own hands as

inspiration.

Why not add a wart or two? Make them by scrunching tissue paper

into a tiny ball and sticking onto the hands with white glue.

Use the hands to decorate a notice-board, the fridge, or the

Halloween table (place them on either side of a plate for a

humorous effect). If you attach them to the edge of doors with

sticky-tack it looks as if someone spooky could be hiding on

the other side!

Alternatively, attach plain white paper to the back of the

hands and use them as invitations!

Variations:

Children could create monster hands. Use cream or brown card

and square off the fingers of the handprints before cutting

out. Fingernails should be black or perhaps silver, and also

square in shape. Use black pen to draw veins and lots of spiky

black hair in the center of the hand and knuckles!

Ghostly hands can be made out of white card. Stretch your

handprints out a little to give particularly long, thin

fingers. Make fingernails out of grey or silver scraps and

decorate with silver glitter. Use pencil or grey pen to draw on

veins.