Inspired by our super popular “paper pool float” tutorial from our summer section, today’s Haunted Paper Plate Skeleton & Pool Floatie craft tutorial is a fantastic way to combine Halloween fun with creativity. It’s also perfect for the “in-between” season between summer and fall, often called “Summer-ween” these days!
This skeleton lounging on a pool floatie craft is a fantastic way to combine Halloween fun with creativity. It’s simple, engaging, and perfect for kids to show off their spooky masterpieces. Find all the details, as well as the free printable, below.
Craft Supplies:
Here’s a quick list of materials you’ll need to grab for this craft:
- Small Skeleton Printable – from box.com
- White Cardstock Paper
- Crayons, Colored Pencils, Markers etc.
- Paper Craft Scissors
- Small Paper Plate
- Paint Crayons or Craft Paint
- Black Cardstock Paper
- School Glue
- Q-tips
- Halloween Stickers/Embellishments
Once you’ve got everything, you’re ready to start crafting! 🎨
Directions:
Here’s a step-by-step guide for your Paper Plate Skeleton Lounging on a Pool Floatie Craft! This Halloween-themed craft is easy, fun, and perfect for kids to get creative. Let’s get started!
- First things first. You are going to download and print the FREE provided printable listed above. One print gives you two opportunities to recreate this skeleton craft.
- Use your choice of coloring medium to color in ONE of the skeleton shapes. Go ahead and customize it however you like.
- Once done decorating it, use scissors to trim out the shape.
- Discard excess paper and set aside the paper piece for now.
- Now grab your small paper plate, the scissors and again, choice of coloring medium.
- Cut out a small circle from the center of the paper plate, to create the opening for the skeleton to sit in. My best suggestion is to imagine a donut.
- Now go ahead and also decorate the paper plate inner tube however you like.
- When done, grab a single sheet of black cardstock and choice of adhesive.
- Go ahead and glue the “paper plate pool float” to the center of your “haunted pool” that is the sheet of cardstock paper.
- Follow that up by gluing your decorated friend piece to the center of the float. You want it to look like he/she is floating and relaxing in it.
- At this point you are going to cut up a few q-tips and glue them inside the skeleton designs for his “bones.”
- Finally, add some Halloween stickers to pull the theme together.
- Then display your pool floatie Halloween artwork proudly for all to see!
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