It's a spooky time of year!

The shops are full of costumes, spooky decorations and massive boxes of candy and the kids are already excited about Halloween! It's a great time of year to have an entire themed day of dressing up, turning your play room into a haunted house, eating spooky snacks and just generally having fun!

Below are some ideas that will help you plan your spooky fun with something that we all have hanging around our home ....... toilet rolls!

 Such a simple idea!

Here's a cute Halloween bat made from a toilet roll with handprint wings.

Materials:

• toilet roll
• black an white paint
• black and purple construction paper
• scissors
• glue
• google eyes

Directions:

1. Paint the toilet roll black or completely cover in black paper.
2. Trace hands on purple paper and cut out.
3. Glue hand prints to the back of the toilet roll for wings.
4. Cut little triangles from black paper and and glue on the top for ears.
5. Glue on 2 google eyes.
6. draw a mouth and teeth with white paint or white out.

You can make your own collection of these Halloween toilet roll monsters. All you need are toilet paper rolls, a few decorating materials and imagination.

Materials:

• toilet paper rolls
• black, orange, green, and white paint
• crepe paper streamers(white and green)
• scissors
• glue
• google eyes
• black marker
• mini marshmallows(for Frankenstein's electrodes)
• black construction paper(for the bat, not pictured)

Directions:

Ghost

1. Paint the toilet roll all white.
2. Draw eyes and mouth with a marker

Jack-O-Lantern

1. Paint all orange.
2. Draw a face.
3. Stuff some green crepe paper inside for the stem.

Frankenstein

1. Paint the top black and the rest green.
2. Cut slits at the top for spiky hair.
3. Draw mouth or scar.
4. Glue on google eyes.
5. Glue on mini-marshmallows for electrodes.

Mummy

1. Cover toilet roll in glue and wrap in white crepe paper.
2. Glue on eyes.

Bat

1. Paint all black.
2. Cut out 2 simple wings from black paper and glue on.
3. Glue on google eyes.

All the above ideas and more can be found on www.easypreschoolcraft.blogspot.ca