Playing with Potatos

You can buy two children all the "developmentally appropriate" toys in the world, plan learning activities, and they will giddily entertain themselves for an hour with a raw potato.

Halloween Kids Craft Ideas: Craft Stick and Craft Spoon Mummies

Family Fun has a really easy idea for a Halloween craft that is super-adaptable to the materials you have available. I think it would be appropriate for elementary students, or even for some light-hearted college kids.

I do not have craft spoons on hand, but I think that if children are just told to wrap more fabric around the head, they will. I also do not have googly eyes, but that is nothing a sharpie or a dab of fabric glue can't fix.

I also have no muslin on hand, but I do have old white t-shirts and a torn-up pillow case that should provide plenty of fabric.

A ghastly green fabric would be well-suited to this craft, as well.

If your chosen fabric is not not frayed to your liking, put it in a lingerie bag and run it through a light cycle on your washing machine and then through the dryer.

These very well may end up in goodie bags for my daughter's class by the end of the month.

Hope they bring fun to your family!

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11863&CMP=NL_Wkdr

Easy Halloween Craft Idea for Kids - Glitter glue spider web window clings

Supplies:

white glue (will not work with glue sticks; not sure on gel glue)
glitter
waxed paper

Instructions:

On the waxy side of the wax paper, allow child to "draw" a spider web of his or her own design. Then he or she sprinkles glitter over the web. Allow to dry. Depending on the amount of glue used, the web may take as much as 72 hours to dry. Peel off of the paper carefully and affix to mirrors or windows (on the shady side of the house!)

Peel off. What does not come off will wash off with dishsoap and warm water. (Tip: Ivory cleans glass to a streak-free shine!)

For a variation, you could also use several containers of white glue (come on, it's 2 for $1!) and dye them with food coloring, and have a rainbow of spider webs. I have not actually tried this idea - it just now popped into my head - so I can not give an idea of the cleanup with the food coloring.