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Get ready to add a spooky and personalized touch to your Halloween décor with our Handprint Halloween Sign! As the leaves fall and the air becomes crisp, it’s the perfect time to gather your little ones for a fun and educational craft that’s bound to fill your home with festive spirit. With a few materials and a dash of creativity, you’ll be well on your way to creating a charming Halloween sign featuring adorable handprint monsters, ghosts, witches, and ghouls. So, grab your construction paper, markers, and a sprinkle of Halloween magic, and let’s dive into this craft that’s both spooky and educational!

Materials You’ll Need

White, black, orange, green, and purple construction paper
Permanent or paint markers
White paint marker
Double-sided tape or glue
Yarn
Regular tape

Tips for Success

Speedy Handprint Cutting: To cut out multiple handprints quickly, stack the construction paper and trace the handprint template once. Then, cut through all the layers at once, ensuring that all handprints are the same size.
Creative Freedom: Encourage your child to let their imagination run wild when drawing faces on the handprints. They can create spooky monsters, friendly ghosts, or wicked witches!
Secure Hanging: When taping the yarn to the back of the sign, ensure it’s securely attached so your sign can be hung with confidence.

Skills Learned During This Activity

Fine Motor Skills: Tracing, cutting, and drawing faces on the handprints all involve fine motor skills, which are essential for tasks like writing and buttoning.
Creativity: This craft provides children with a canvas to express their creativity by designing unique and spooky characters.
Writing Skills: Writing “Happy Halloween” on the sign with a white acrylic pen enhances writing skills and creativity.
Spatial Awareness: Positioning the handprints on the sign and securing the hanging yarn develop spatial awareness.

How to Make A Handprint Halloween Sign

Now, let’s get started with the Handprint Halloween Sign:

Handprint Creations: Begin by tracing and cutting out handprints in various colors (white, black, orange, green, and purple). To speed up the process, stack the construction paper sheets before tracing and cutting. I found doing 3 at once doable. I would prep this step before starting especially for younger crafters 2-6 years old.

Spooky Faces: Invite your child to draw faces on each handprint, transforming them into spooky Halloween characters. Let their imagination guide them as they create their own monsters, ghosts, witches, and ghouls! They can use the white acrylic paint markers and other colours. I found the paint markers worked best. but any markers will do.

Create the Sign: Cut a black sheet of construction paper so that it provides a thin border all around the white construction paper. Glue the black paper onto the white one, leaving a border.

Festive Greeting: Have your child use a white paint marker to write “Happy Halloween” on the black paper. Their artistic touch will add a personalized element to the sign. Tape or glue the handprint ghosts, goblins and ghoul;s all around the sign.

Hanging Magic: Cut a piece of yarn, and tape the ends securely to the back of the sign. This will allow you to hang your Handprint Halloween Sign wherever you like!
Display with Pride: Once your sign is complete, proudly display it on your front door, in the hallway, or anywhere that needs a touch of Halloween spirit.

This Handprint Halloween Sign is not only a fantastic craft that encourages creativity but also a delightful decoration to celebrate the spookiest season of the year. It’s a charming way to showcase your child’s artistic skills and welcome the Halloween festivities into your home. Happy crafting and Happy Halloween!

Age Suitability

This activity is good for toddlers aged children 3 years old and up with adult assistance.

Mess Level

The mess level for this activity is low.

Difficulty to Create

Easy.

Toddler and Preschooler Curriculums, Books & TV Show!

Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers

There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!

But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.

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These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!

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Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.

Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids

Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.

Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.

Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.

Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids

Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.

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Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.

Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids

Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.

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Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!

Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.

TV Show: Curious Crafting

I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.

Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!

Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.

In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.

Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.

This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.

The Best Sensory Play Kits for Kids

Play is at the core of learning during the early years and it can take many forms. One of the most important of these is sensory play because it engages all of a child’s senses (taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing) and has a enoumous positive impact on brain development.

Our Sensory Play Kits are some fun and easy ways to keep your child engaged while at the same time using sensory play to nurture their mind!

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