More Halloween Crafts

Spookghetti Skeleton

Here’s a Halloween decoration your science teacher wouldn’t mind helping you out with! Gather a variety of dried pasta and some glue and build your boney masterpiece. You can make it more interesting with an outline of your favorite cartoon character.

Supplies:

• A few different types of pasta and dried beans, like spaghetti, macaroni, tiny tube pasta, long tube pasta, wagon wheels, long spirals, tiny shells, wagon wheels, and alphabet-soup noodles (if you want to label)
• Glue
• A blank sheet of paper or an outline of your favorite cartoon character
• Crayons (optional)

What to Do:

1. Using a variety of pastas and beans, arrange a skeleton on the paper, within the outline if you’re using one. Make sure you have room for the whole body on the paper.
2. Glue the pasta to the paper.
3. You can use just about any type of pasta (or dried beans) for the bones.
4. Be creative and have a blast taking a deeper look inside the human (or cartoon) body.
5. Add some festive Halloween colors to your creation.

Finding the Perfect Pasta:

• Wagon wheel pasta is a great shape for heads.
• Spaghetti broken in smaller pieces can make great fingers and toes
• Tiny tubes or dried lentils are perfect for vertebrae in the spine.
• Long tubes can become terrific collar bones.
• Longer tubes or long spirals can become arm and leg bones.
• Small shells or dried white beans are nice for the kneecaps, wrists and ankles.
• Two dried lima beans as hips help create a stellar skeleton.
• Alphabet-soup noodles are a great way to label your creepy creation.

No bones about it, this is one lesson in anatomy you wont be forgetting in a while.

Activity 2 – Eggs-tra Halloween Fun

This project provides an easy way to spook-up your house for Halloween. Using some not so eggs-traordinary household items like an empty egg carton and crayons, you’ll be surprised to find out how easy it is to make this decoration.
Supplies:

• An empty egg carton.
• Crayons/Markers
• Scissors
• Rubber band or string
• Googley eyes

What to Do:

1. Separate a row of 3 cups from an egg carton (a one dozen egg carton should make four bats)
2. Turn the carton upside down (so it looks like three hills)
3. Cut out an arch from the two outside cups to resemble bat wings (see illustration)
4. Add eyes and a mouth and any other decorations to make your bat boo-tiful
5. Poke a hole in the top to hang your bat from a string or rubber band
6. Display around your house