Need I say it again…. I love Halloween Art Projects!
There are so many fun projects, it’s so difficult to decide which ones choose each year.
This project takes a bit of prep, but you can use it for multiple grade levels. Just choose more complicated shapes.
I use a full sheet of Black construction paper, and sheets of orange, purple, blue, grey that I cut into sixths (in half length wise and then in 3rds).
Each student gets 1 black sheet and they can choose 3 colors. Before we start the project I have them all place the 3 colors on their black paper, so they understand how they will fit on once their shapes are cut. I give a little lecture on positive and negative shapes.
One color at a time we fold (the younger grades I pre-fold all of the papers, but the older grade can do it themselves) a colored paper lengthwise in half, and draw half of a pumpkin with a stem, and the cut it out. We glue the negative shape in a corner of the black paper and the positive shape below it. We do another pumpkin and glue the positive and negative shape on the other corner of the black paper. The last paper we do a more complicated shape, a bat or a ghost.
At the end I give them a marker to add the faces on the pumpkins, but it still looks great without a face.