With glue, glitter, and your imagination, you can make your love of Halloween and its ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, and more colorfully transparent to all!

Supplies

• Printable Halloween figure templates | Template 1 | Template 2
• Poster board or other heavy stock paper or cardboard
• White glue
• Glitter in a variety of colors
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Scissors
• Wax paper
• Popsicle or craft sticks
• Needle
• White thread (or any color)
• Fine-tip permanent marker
• Hot glue gun or regular glue

Directions

1. Print the Halloween Figures templates
2. Cut out the figures
3. Trace the figures onto the poster board
4. Cut out the figures around the outside edge and also along the inside edge
5. Lay out the figure templates on the wax paper
6. Gently pour some white glue into the center of the figure template
7. Smooth the glue completely to the edges of the figure template, adding glue if needed
8. Sprinkle glitter on the glue, as much or as little as you’d like

To dry the glue

1. Let the figures sit overnight OR:
2. Place the figures on the wax paper in a warm oven. Turn the oven on to 200 – 250 degrees and let it come up to heat. Then turn the oven off and place the figures inside. Check after 15 minutes and check frequently until dry.

After the glue is dry

1. Add faces to the ghosts with a permanent marker
2. Add googly eyes with the hot glue or regular glue
3. If desired, color the edge of the template to match the color of the glitter

To hang figures

1. Thread a needle with the desired length of thread and gently push the needle through the glue near the top of the figure.
2. Tie the thread around a chandelier, curtain rod, or any other place you would like to decorate

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