Batty For Hand Prints

Since the girl has Pre-K in the afternoon, I have to figure out some way to entertain her in the mornings.  Thankfully, there are plenty of easy Halloween crafts that are sure to keep a girl busy.  Especially when that girl loves getting her hands painted and playing with glitter.  Here's what we did this morning.

It amazes me how much this girl loves to get paint on her hands.  If it was up to her, she'd just leave handprints all over the paper, squeeze a bottle of glue over it, and dump glitter everywhere.   Whatever it takes to keep the kids busy, go with it.

Paint your kid's hands and slap 'em down on some paper.  Cut out a body/head for the bat and place it near the ends of the thumbs.  We finally remembered to pick up some Googly Eyes at Wal-Mart, but, if you don't have them you can use cotton balls, or pom-poms, or my daughter's favorite mixture of glue and glitter.

Use the glue/glitter mix for the smile and teeth.  Spread out some glue in the shape of a smile and drown it in glitter.  Let it dry and shake off the excess glitter before adding the teeth.  Make sure you spread a thin line of glue, otherwise your bat will look kinda whorish (see below).

You dirty, dirty bat.

Once you knock off the extra glitter, your bat should look less clown like.  Now add two v-shaped glue teeth and bedazzle it with glitter.  You could also cut some teeth out with construction paper and glue it on there, but let's be honest, glitter is way cooler.

Glue...

...and glitter.

Let the glue dry and shake off the extra.  Decorate with some Halloween stickers or, if you have a little artist on your hands, let them color a nice background.  If you've seen the other crafts we've done, you know there are no artists in our family, so stickers it is.

I thought we were done at this point, my daughter thought otherwise...

The great thing about this project is that, not only is it an easy Halloween craft, but it also doubles as a Seek 'n' Find.  Simply leave your 3-year old in the room with the project and stickers and go change your baby's diaper.  If you don't own a baby, you can borrow mine.  When you return, your toddler will have sorted through your entire stash of stickers and applied them liberally to your artwork.  Have fun!

Can you find:

A Pizza Box
R.I.P. Grave Marker
A Bo Staff
4 Puppy Dogs
Frankenstein
A Skull w/an Eyepatch
5 Pumpkins
4 Ninja Turtles
2 Spiders
A Bottle of Poison
Minnie Mouse
7 Bats
A Coffin
April O'Neil
A Sparkly Vampire

Have fun and Happy Halloween!



Update (10/26/12):  I thought it'd be fun to post pictures of other parents doing some crafts with their children.  Send a photo of your kid's artwork and I'll post it here or on the Facebook page.

Thanks Sarah for sending a photo of your daughter's bat!

Love those monkey vampires!