Here’s a fun and easy craft for toddlers and preschoolers to make this halloween! It’s a spooky boneyard wreath to hang on the front door for halloween.
Aside from Christmas, Halloween is my favourite time of year for crafting with my daycare hooligans. I swear, I could come up with a different Halloween craft, every single day in October. There are just so many fun spooky thing to make! Cats, bats, monsters, mummies, pumpkins, ghosts, witches… the inspiration is never-ending! You’ll find lots of easy Halloween crafts for kids here among the pages of my blog.
Our most recent spooky creation is this “boneyard wreath”.
The idea to make these halloween wreaths hit me the other day, when we were painting up some pasta “bones” for a skeleton craft.
Painting the pasta “bones”:
Painting the bones was fun and easy. We poured a few different types of pasta into plastic containers, drizzled some white paint over the pasta (we used leftover white latex paint but you could use acrylic craft paint).
Then we popped the lids on the containers and did gave them a good shake.
We spread our “bones” out on a styrofoam tray to dry.
Making our wreaths:
Today I cut some “wreaths” out of light-weight cardboard (think cereal box), and the Hooligans painted them with black Tempera paint.
I set out some googly eyes and and some foam Hallowe’en craft pieces, and the kids had a grand old time gluing the “bones” onto the wreath and adding their spooky accessories.
We punched a hole in the top of each wreath, and looped a piece of purple ribbon through for hanging.
How simple was that? And FUN, and so cool!?
For the record, this next one is the one that I made, to give you an idea of how you can really load up your Hallowe’en wreath with those “bones”.
Happy Halloween!
More easy Halloween crafts your kids will love:
Spooky Tissue Paper Halloween Wreath
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
Ann Foster
I love the great activities that you are posting. Keep up the ggod work. I am retweeting in Australia
happyhooligans
Hi Ann! I”m so glad you’re enjoying our activities! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Melissa (@ChMuffinTree)
Such a cool idea! I love it!
Anu Ganesh
Very creative!! Love the wreath!
Mommyhood: From the Heart
Wow, these are sooo awesome! How creative!
barb
I love this idea. I am right now doing your monster mobiles with my kids but this bone yard activity will be next.
ROSEMARIE REGAN
I tried painting noodles and they broke very easily. Did you have that problem? I used just regular tempera paint.
happyhooligans
Hmmm, no I’ve never had that problem, Rosemarie. We’ve dyed pasta several times using food colouring (we just shake it in a bag with food colouring and a few drops of vinegar), and we’ve painted pasta several times, both with tempera paints and with latex paint, and we’ve never had a problem with the pasta breaking. Were you using a thin/fragile type of noodle? The penne is fairly thick and sturdy. Did it break WHEN you were painting it or afterwards when you were working with it?
ROSEMARIE REGAN
I didn’t use Vinegar, maybe that was a problem. I still have them to its been a few years. I will look into the thicker pasta also i didn’t know they came in different thicknesses.
happyhooligans
I know some people who use rubbing alcohol and some who use nothing, so I don’t think the lack of vinegar would be the problem, Rosemarie. I’m thinking it might just be that the pasta was too fragile/brittle/thin.
happyhooligans
Aw, thanks Anna!
ROSEMARIE REGAN
Thank You for your quick response !!!