Haunted House Craft with littlies!

With this week being Half Term Holidays and with Halloween arriving at the end of them, I decided that some spooky crafts were in order! These haunted houses are really effective and fun for the kiddies! Here's how we made them.

You will need:

Sheets of black A4 card

Sheets of yellow A4 card or paper

Spooky Stickers

A craft Knife

A craft cutting board or scrap card as a cutting surface

Glue sticks

First have your little one draw the outline of a house with a pointy roof and a wobbly chimney (look at that cheeky face!) :) 

Grown up job! - Once they have added plenty of doors and windows use your craft knife on a board to cut along the bottoms of the windows and down the middle of them so that you can fold them open. Do the same with the doors but make sure you leave one side edge uncut so that it acts as a hinge.

Next get the children to add glue along the edges of the house (taking care not to get any on the backs of the doors or windows). Then place the house on top of your sheet of yellow paper/card trimming off the excess around the edges of the house.

The children's Nana bought these stickers for them last year from Accessorize but we never had time to do anything with them so this year they were perfect for this activity. You could use any stickers that are small enough to fit into the doors and windows though.

Let the littlies stick their spooky stickers inside all the doors and windows to their hearts' content!

Ta Dah! If you are lucky enough to have space for a display board for the children's work you could back it in a dark colour. We only had black backing paper left so to make the houses stand out I mounted them on to some orange sugar paper first. I used a starry border and have left space above the houses to add fireworks pictures as Guy Fawkes is fast approaching (watch this space!)