Ghosts

• Set up a craft table to make glue ghosts. Create a contest for the biggest or silliest ghosts. Provide a sheet of wax paper for each child. With white glue, instruct the children to squeeze out the glue into the shape of a ghost. Decorate the ghosts with googly eyes, pom poms, glitter and buttons. The children can take the ghosts home to dry overnight. Then carefully peel the ghosts off to decorate a window or mirror.
  
  

Masks

• Decorate paper masks as a craft game. Provide plain heavyweight paper to construct masks. Children can draw their own scary character on the paper and cut them out with eye holes. Provide items, such as markers, glitter, stickers and felt scraps, to personalize the masks. Then glue the masks onto a craft stick so the children can wear them. Play a game by creating Halloween skits that incorporate the masks. Charades is another game that children can play with the masks. One child pretends to be something and the others have to guess what he is.
  
  

Monster Hands

• Pop the popcorn ahead of time for this cooking activity.Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
  
  Give each child a clear disposable plastic glove to make monster hands. Offer big bowls of flavored popcorn for this cooking activity. Drop a gum drop into each glove finger hole for the fingernails. Then the children fill the entire glove with different flavors of popcorn. Tie the openings with black or orange ribbons or twist ties to complete.
  
  

Fingers

• Cook up severed fingers with children for Halloween. Cut off a small wedge on one end of cocktail wieners or small hotdogs. Heat them up in an oven. Allow them to cool before allowing the children to work with them. Cut tortillas into strips that are 3/4-inch-by-4-inch. Instruct each child to wrap the uncut end of each cocktail wiener or hotdog with a tortilla strip. Squeeze mustard or ketchup onto the cut wedge as a fingernail.