Make it Yourself: Kids Frankenstein Trick-or-Treat Bags

Creating fun Frankenstein Trick-or-Treat bags is easy!  With a little but of creatitvity the possibilities for this craft are endless!

This week’s frugal craft is brought to you by Momondealz.

Materials:

• Paper Shopping Bag
• Various Colors of Construction Paper
• Glue
• Markers

Directions:
-I realize traditional Frankenstein is green but purple is the new green in my son’s book! LOL. If you don’t feel like cutting the shapes, you can just have your child draw the face. I had Will help me with the cutting since that is an important skill, as well as the gluing of the shapes.

Educational Activities:

• Language Arts: 1. Discuss the syllables in the word Frankenstein. Clap out the syllables with your child and then brainstorm other Halloween words and clap out the syllables for those words as well. 2. Make an acrostic poem with your child using the word Frankenstein and try to use Fall or Halloween words (F=fun, fright; R=running, rotten pumpkins; A=apples; N=night, etc). 3. Allow your child to tell or write a monster story.
• Science: Discuss that by reusing the grocery bag you are recycling resources. Discuss the importance of taking care of resources around us and create a list of other household items you can reuse (toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, yogurt/butter/baby food containers, shoe boxes, etc).
• Math: Have your child identify the shapes used in the craft (circles for eyes, triangles for hair, etc).

Craft Idea Credit: SimpleKidsCrafts.com