Free Grade School Crafts

These egg carton cats are fun to make for Halloween, or give them a more mellow look for year-round cat craft fun.

What You Need: 2 egg carton cups; black tempera paint; yellow construction paper; pink construction paper; black marker; 1/2 black pipe cleaner; glue; transparent tape.
How You Make It: Cut one egg carton cup leaving two sections protruding for ears. Cut other so there are four “leg” sections. Paint both egg carton pieces black and let dry. Cut out strips on yellow construction paper for eyes and whiskers and a pink triangle for a nose. Add pupil to eye with black marker. Glue to front of one egg cup, being sure to position “ears” how you’d like them. Glue cups together to form cat. (You may have to hold them while they dry.) Glue or tape on pipe cleaner for tail.

Here’s a fun mobile that you can bring out as a Halloween decoration year after year. You can add more ghosts and pumpkins if you choose!

What You Need: Cotton balls; white and orange tissue paper; black marker; paper (or plastic) plate; yarn; black ribbon; green pipe cleaner and scissors.
How You Make It: Cut tissue paper into square of 3″ to 4″. Wrap tissue paper around a cotton ball and secure using 6″ to 8″ length of yarn. Over the yarn, tie black ribbon for ghosts and green pipe cleaner lengths for pumpkins. Use black marker to add eyes and mouths to ghosts and a face to the pumpkins if you want a jack o’ lantern look. Poke holes in paper plate and insert other end of yarn lengths, tying a knot to keep it there. Poke two more holes and and yarn to hang the mobile.