Halloween Popsicle Stick Characters

Here is a super easy, simple, and frugal Halloween craft you can do with your kids at home, daycares, or even teachers can do this with their whole classrooms. You can choose to do a lot of the pre-work/paint ahead of time if you have smaller kids or less time to create with. All your supplies can be purchased at Walmart and a little goes a long way with the paint!

You will need:

• Large Popsicle Sticks
• Paintbrushes/sponge brush (optional but easier for larger areas)
• Small bottles of acrylic paint (green, white, orange, black)
• Pipe Cleaners (optional)
• Packaging tape

Scarecrow:

1. Take 5 large popsicle sticks and lay the flat. Take clear packaging tape and apply on one side of the popsicle sticks to create one piece.
2. Take 1 large popsicle stick and place it slightly slanted near the top of the other popsicle sticks. You can stick it down with double-sided tape or just roll a piece of packaging tape over and stick it on.
3. Paint the top portion (including the slanted stick) orange and add a small triangle on the face for the nose.
4. Paint eyes and a smile on the face.
5. Once the eyes have dried you can take a small amount of white and do a comma like line towards the top portion of the eyes.

Frankenstein:

1. Take 5 large popsicle sticks and lay the flat. Take clear packaging tape and apply on one side of the popsicle sticks to create one piece.
2. Paint all 5 popsicle sticks green and let dry.
3. Paint “mountains” over the top portion of the popsicle sticks and then fill in with black
4. Draw on “stitches” like a tally mark grid in black paint
5. Draw on a smile, grimace, or other facial expression with black paint
6. Use white to draw two circles for the eyes and fill in and let dry
7. Paint over the lower portion of the eyes with black paint

Ghost:

1. Take 5 large popsicle sticks and lay the flat. Take clear packaging tape and apply on one side of the popsicle sticks to create one piece.
2. Paint all sticks white
3. Paint to circles for eyes in black paint
4. Paint an oval for the mouth in black paint
5. Fill in the circles/oval

Pumpkin:

1. Take 5 large popsicle sticks and lay the flat. Take clear packaging tape and apply on one side of the popsicle sticks to create one piece.
2. Paint all sticks orange and let dry
3. Take black paint and do the outline of the eyes, mouth, and nose. Mouth and eyes are triangles.
4. Fill in all the facial features with black paint
5. If you mess up like I did on the mouth just throw some white teeth on there.

You can then apply pipe cleaners along the back to make the door hangers (or to hang on the walls). Attach magnets on the back and make them holiday fridge magnets. The kids will love making these and you’ll love how easy they are!