This week we are celebrating Inktober on my weekly Crayola Facebook Live Broadcast! Celebrate as a family with three crafts that everyone can enjoy and get in the spirit for Fall and Halloween!
Shop all the Crayola products I used in the three projects below at Crayola.com
Project 1: Coffee Filter Ink Pumpkin and Candy Corn
Materials:
- Crayola Markers
- Crayola Glue
- Coffee Filters
- Cardboard
- Green Pipecleaners
- Cup of Water
- Twine
Directions:
- Cut a pumpkin and a candy corn shape out of scrap cardboard.
- Lay out coffee filters and colors squiggly lines around the edges with an orange markers. Do some with a yellow marker as well.
- Fold the coffee filter in half over and over until you have a pie slice.
- Dip it in the cup of water. Pull it straight up and let the water drip off.
- Open up the coffee filter and lay it flat to dry or blow dry.
- Make enough orange ones to cover the pumpkin and enough yellow and orange ones for the candy corn.
- Make 4 brown coffee filters for the pumpkin stem.
- Once all the coffee filters are dry bunch them up from the center.
- Glue all the orange ones to the cardboard pumpkin and add the 4 brown ones for the stem.
- Finish the pumpkin with green pipe cleaners vines.
- Bunch up the orange and yellow coffee filters and use some white un-inked ones. Glue them starting with the yellow at the bottom, then orange and white at the top.
If you want to hang these add glue a piece of twine to the back!
Project 2: Inky Pumpkin Doodles
Materials:
- Faux Pumpkins
- Crayola Project Metallic Markers
- Crayola Project Metallic Outline Markers
If you want to make the cat, grab some black pipe cleaners, glue and construction paper!
Project 3: Solar System Mobil School Project
Materials:
- Crayola Project Metallic Markers
- Crayola Project Metallic Outline Markers
- Crayola Glitter Pens
- Crayola Construction Paper
- Crayola Glue
- Sequin Ribbon or Yarn
- Flat Wreath Form (you can cut one from cardboard)
Directions:
- Cut circles for each planet you want to include in your mobile. You will want at least 3 circles for each plant.
- Use the metallic markers and glitter pens to color and label each planet. Color and label all three circles for each planet.
- Fold each circle in half. Glue the halves together to form a round 3D planet. Leave a little opening at the top.
- Wrap and glue the flat wreath form with strips of construction paper.
- Glue the sequin strand/yarn from the top of each planet to the wreath form.
- Add sequin strands/yarn to four points at the top of the wreath form create a hanger!
Hang the sun in the center and watch the planets revolve around it! This is definitely an A+ project!
Don't forget to tune in to my weekly live broadcast on the Crayola Facebook Page every Tuesday at 1:00pm EST.
xoxo- Lynn