Ghost Craft Projects


Cool Whip Lid/Grocery Sack Ghost

What You Need:

Cool Whip Lid or other similar sheer white lid
3 Black Paper circles (eyes & mouth)
2 sheer white plastic grocery sacks
2 white pipe cleaners (chenille stem)
Scotch tape
Glue stick
Black yarn
Hole punch

Here's a fun ghost project that's inexpensive...uses primarily recycled household items...and you will just love how they "fly". It will appear as though you are being "chased" by a little ghost!

This project is easy and fun to do.

How To Make It:

Glue eyes and mouth on front of lid.

Cut off any writing or graphics, and handles from grocery sacks. Lay the sacks on a flat surface. With  scissors, shred 2" strips up sacks leaving at least 1" area intact next to the seam.

Glue the pipe cleaner/chenille stem into the seam.

Turn lid over on flat surface. Bend and insert the pipe cleaner/seam into the ridge around the bottom 1/2 of the lid. Tape to secure in place.

Repeat with the 2nd sack and stem, and insert in the ridge around the upper 1/2 of the lid.

Punch a hole through top of the lid. Thread a length of yarn through the hole appropriate for hanging.

You may like to have a loop on the end of a 1 1/2' length so you could hold on and run with them.



Clay Pot Ghost

Materials Needed:

2 inch Terra Cotta Clay Pot
1 1/2 inch Wooden Ball 
White Fun Foam
Paint
Clear Acrylic Sealer Spray
Glue (hot glue gun preferred)

Make this cute ghost using a terra cotta clay pot and a few other supplies.

Instructions:
Wipe down your terra cotta pot with a damp cloth and let dry completely.

Paint the clay pot and the wooden ball head white. Put them aside to dry.

Once the paint is dry, glue the wooden ball onto the bottom of the clay pot.

Paint a face on the wooden ball.  Once all your paint is dry, spray it with the clear acrylic sealer.

Cut out two ghost arms out of white fun foam.

Glue these to the side of your clay pot! Your ghost is now complete.



Windsock Ghosts

You need:

Two 9"x 12" White Craft Foam
1/2 Piece Black Craft Foam
Glue
Hole Punch
Stapler or Brass Fasteners
White String
White Plastic Bag 
(you can use half of a tall kitchen bag)

Instructions:

Cut a plastic bag into 1" to 2" strips. Cut a ghostly face out of black craft foam. Glue it to the middle of one piece of white craft foam.

Turn foam face upside down and glue strips of plastic bag all along the bottom edge of both pieces of foam.

Staple or fasten sides of foam together to make into the ghost head.

Punch a hole in each side. Add a string to hang.