These Halloween Handprint Ghosts are fun for toddlers!
I was cleaning up my boy’s closet a couple of weeks ago and found this old piece of art work I did with them when they were smaller. Yes, it’s hard to believe, even for me, that I managed to find the motivation to do crafts with my kids when they were 3, 16 mo and 4 mo but apparently I did! It must have been the lack of sleep making me crazy! lol
Anyways, I thought I would share this handprint craft with ya’ll today because it still brings a smile to my face just seeing those tiny hands!
Halloween Handprint Ghosts
Instructions
To make your own, simply paint your child’s hands with white paint (*tip, add a small dab of dish soap if you aren’t using washable paint for easy clean up) then press their hand onto a piece of black paper and lift back off. Now, turn the paper upside down for you ghosts hang the right way.
Next, add on googly eyes with a bit of glue.
The pumpkins on the bottom of the artwork were done the same way using only the palm of the hand and adding a green stem with a paint brush.
I like making one picture with all three kids handprints on them so I only have to worry about keeping one piece of artwork throughout the years, they accumulate sooo much art don’t they?? We usually end up making a few different ones and using them as Halloween cards for the relatives. We just tuck in a photo of the boys in their costumes on Halloween or a few days before and mail them off. We don’t have any family nearby that sees the boys on occasions such as this so it’s fun to share their childhood celebrations with art and photos through snail mail.
Get Ghosty with your lil’ Goblins this Halloween!
Halloween handprint crafts are so fun and special, give these Halloween Handprint Spiders a try too! And Make your goblins giggle with this BIG List of Halloween Jokes for Kids!
LOVE them! They’re adorable! I have to make a concerted effort to do more stuff with my boys. Seeing this puts a huge smile on my face!
Too cute! I absolutely adore hand print crafts!!! Thanks for sharing this 🙂 I pinned it!
thanks hun!
These are so cute and what a great idea to have the 3 prints on one page, like you said…now only one piece of art to keep!
Super cute idea! I wonder if I could hold my little guy’s hands still enough to do this.
So very cute!
How cute are these great craft idea!
I still have my version of this special artwork (spiders) hanging up in my office!
We did stuff like this when our kiddos were smaller, too!
these are really sweet and kids love making things like this where they actually have to put paint on their hands 🙂 Love the tip of using a dash of dish soap, good to know. 🙂
works like a charm!