Friday

Halloween Ghosts


 Plastic Bag Ghosts! 
Reuse all those white plastic bags to make a cute and fun to play with halloween ghost. I did this craft with the Best Buddies students who loved seeing a common item used for a different purpose. The craft was a great hands on way to show that items normally thrown away can be reused in many different ways.


 1. Lay the plastic bag flat and cut off the handles and down the sides. 2. Lay the bag flat again, unfolded at the middle, and cut apart. You will be left with 2 rectangles of plastic bag. 3. If there is any coloring or print on the bag, you can cut this part off to have an all white ghost. 4. Cut strips into the plastic squares, leaving 2-4 inches uncut at the top. 


5. Inflate a white balloon and tape the uncut portion of the plastic bag around the balloon so that the strips are hanging down. 6. Draw a face on your balloon ghost and decorate for halloween.


Attach ghosts to a string and let kids run around trailing ghosts or throw ghosts up  in the air and play a game to see who can keep their ghost flying for the longest!





Poor Man's Coaster

Poor Man's Coaster

Using the braiding method (shown on the braiding page), create two plastic bag ropes. Lay one of the ropes in a zig-zagging position of desired width. Weave the other rope through the zig-zagging rope using a simple under-over weave. Once you reach one side, weave back in the other direction with the same weaving method. Repeat until you reach the end of the rope. Try to match the two ends in the same corner so that you can knot them or glue them and cut off excess plastic. 

Spiral Coaster

For an easy and quick to make coaster, coil one braided strand into a circle and secure using a glue gun.