Glittery Pumpkins

I got the idea for this next craft from Mess For Less, but she found the idea here. I had leftover orange paper plates from our Halloween party, and my center always has plenty of glitter. So I set out the plates with glue bottles and told the kids they could make any kind of face they wanted. They just used the glue bottle like a marker.

I also set out bowls of green and silver glitter and put spoons in them to make it easier for the kids to sprinkle it on the glue.

I let them sit like this for an hour or so before shaking the glitter off. I didn't want the glue to run and ruin their adorable faces! Then I used a hole punch to make a hole in the top of the plate and used a green pipe cleaner to make a stem. I decided to form it into a loop so they could be hung up.

They turned out so cute!

Another thing we made yesterday was gourd ghosts. A two-year-old teacher brought in a whole box of finger gourds for all the kids in the center. So I cleaned them and had each kid pick one. Then I set out black paint and some brushes and the kids painted ghost faces on them.

It was so simple. If I had more time, I would have had the kids paint them white first, but it was Halloween and we just didn't have time for that. But I think these look just fine, don't you?