Halloween Crafts
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Halloween in a Jar
Halloween Fun and Games
Halloween Luminaries
Craft Foam Witch
Egg Carton Bat
How to Make Halloween Pencil Toppers
by Twila Lenoir
Personalize your pencils with a Halloween theme - choose either the pumpkin pencil or spider pencil -- or why not make both?
What you will need:
1 big orange pompom for the pumpkin and 1 black one for the spider
Black felt for the pumpkin, yellow for the spider, and green for the pumpkins hands
2 google eyes for the spider
Black pipe cleaner for the spider and brown for the pumpkin
Glue
Pencils
Pumpkin Pencil:
Separate the fur of the big orange pompom and glue in one brown pipe cleaner; also put glue on the top of the pencil and glue it in where you separated the fur on the pompom. Hold until the glue sets up a bit.
Glue on a triangle of black felt for the pumpkin nose, two triangles for the eyes, and a black zigzag mouth. Now glue on two little leaves or even some silk leaves on the pipe cleaners and wrap around pencil like the pumpkin is holding the pencil. Take a tiny piece of brown pipe cleaner and glue to the top of the pumpkin as a stem.
Spider Pencil:
For the spider, take two pipe cleaners and cut them in half. Now you have four pieces, but you will only use three. Separate the fur on the pompom and glue in the pipe cleaners. Now put some glue on the top of the pencil and glue it in place where you separated the fur and put in the pipe cleaners. Make sure you have three pipe cleaners on each side of the spider. Bend the legs in a zig zag.
Glue on two small yellow circles and them glue on the tiny google eyes. Enjoy!
The spiders are easy and fun to make! :) A perfect grade school class project. It is easier to glue the pencil on top of the pom pom if the eraser has been trimmed off.
What a great craft for my daughter's third grade Halloween party! One change was I did not want to glue the pencil topper to the eraser. Instead we glued a small piece of the brown pipe cleaner (about 1/3 of one) to the pumpkin and a piece of black pipe cleaner to the spider to the under side of the pom pom and then coiled it around the pencil like a spring. Then kids can take it off and on to use their eraser. We all need to erase now and again!
I made a lot of these pencils and handed them out to my classroom! They thought the pencil topping were cool and creative!
Was it hard to make them?
