DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Halloween Monster Wreath
This is a fun wreath to do by yourself or with a group for a Halloween, fantasy or space aliens theme.
Materials:
- Ring of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
- construction paper (green and orange)
- scissors,
- glue
Instructions:
- Trace a small plate and a large plate onto a piece of old cardboard.
- Empty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well.
- It doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard.
- Cut a small strip of cardboard and glue it onto the back of the ring over any folds in the cardboard.
This will reinforce the ring.- Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches).
- Glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain).
- Glue the rolls of construction paper onto the wreath. We made a green and orange pattern, but you can do it however you wish.
- Print out the craft template of choice.
- Color the template pieces and cut out.
- Glue the head, candy corn and two hands on top of the wreath.
- Glue the body and two hands on the back of the wreath
(so it looks like the monster is peeking over the top.
Templates:
- After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
- If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
• In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
• Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog
Template (color) or (B&W)
Printable version of these instructions
