Here’s some fun and simple craft activities to help your charges get into the spooky season spirit! 
I love the spooky season - and there are so many fab activities to link in! Please feel free to comment on this article with your own suggestions – especially for older ones. Another nanny could use the inspiration! 
Millie and her robot 
 
 
Pumpkin Carving 
The classic first choice! A great day out for half term is to head to a local pumpkin patch and select a few of varying sizes and colours. Here’s a few local patches I can personally recommend: 
 
https://foxesfarmproduce.co.uk/ (Colchester – my top pick as its run by my friends!) 
 
You can use stencils, marker pens, or carve them depending on the ages of your charges. Will you go funny or spooky? 
 
Paper Crafts 
Paper bats! These could not be simpler – get some black construction paper, fold it in half, draw a half-bat shape on one side (so when you cut out the doubled up paper and unfold, the two halves are symmetrical). Use a hole-punch to make holes in the wing tips and hang with string. 
Spooky spiders - use paper plates and pipe cleaners (and some good old fashioned googly-eyes) to make spiders! You could even make baby ones with pom-poms instead of paper plates. 
 
For more ideas, Twinkl has some excellent downloadable and printable paper crafts for Halloween: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/fun-halloween-crafts-for-kids 
 
Rock ghosts 
Find a selection of elongated, oval shaped rocks. Paint them white. Once dry, draw on spooky faces (think ‘the scream’!) 
 
Halloween baking 
Any excuse for a sweet treat in my eyes! Cupcakes are always so versatile – just by changing your decorating you can make monsters, spiders, pumpkins, eyeballs… the list is endless. 
 
Happy Halloween! 
 
 
 
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