I’m so glad to be back to share another fun simple craft to do with your kids. Halloween is right around the corner, and people are looking for ways to add some autumn decorations in their homes. I personally enjoy doing fun fall crafts with the grand kids. I decided to share with you my simple Halloween train decoration project.
Halloween Train Decoration Project
Recipe Type: Kids Craft
Cuisine: Kids Crafts
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This is a simple activity that can be done in a short period of time.
Ingredients
- 4 sheets of black construction paper
- 4 sheets of orange construction paper
- 2 black poster boards
- 2 orange poster boards
- 1 white poster board
- fake skeletons from Dollar Tree
- Package of various eyes from Dollar Tree
- Lots of Elmers Glue
- Kids safety scissors
- Yarn or string
- Pencils
- Hole puncher
- thumb tacks (or favorite hanging device)
Instructions
- First you take stencils of your Halloween characters and trace them with your pencils.
- Then you cut the characters out.
- Then you take the construction paper and cut it into wide strips.
- Then you make circles with those strips rotating from orange to black (to make a long strip of circles)
- Put holes in your Halloween characters.
- Put strings through the holes and then tie each Halloween character at various places across the paper train.
- Then you put it up in your home using thumb tacks or your favorite hanging utensils.
- Admire your creation.
As you can see it’s a really simple kids craft to do with your kids in your life. I personally love how excited my grand kids got when they seen their creations hanging in their living room. Even their Mom and Dad were thrilled to display this creation in their homes. It really does have a way of making your home look more festive for Halloween.
What simple kids crafts have you done for Halloween?
Love it. Old school. Simple. To the point decorations. Kids can relate. Kids can participate.
Yes, it’s simple and you can use this idea for many different occasions.
Cute! I think kids are blessed when we celebrate and embrace each day, holiday, season or event to its fullest. Really cute train! The kids will always remember that!
Thank you for your note. Yes, they will. Come back for Thanksgiving art.
Cute craft! I love how simple it is!
Thank you. Yes, it is very simple and cheap, but it was mostly fun. Wait until you see November’s craft.
That’s cute. You could do a fall one too and just put on pumpkins and leaves!
Yes, you are right that just by switching up the colors and decorations that it can be used for various holidays.
This is really cute– I love that it’s not costly, either. Great idea!
Yes, yes, and yes. Thank you. Come back to check out more crafts.