Another wonderful way to use leaves in your nature Halloween crafts. Kids love painting and they’ll love painting a pumpkin. Pumpkin still-life painting. This is a lovely way to study a pumpkin closely.Who would have thought the colours in leaves would work so perfectly for a spooky zombie craft. These conker bats are really cute, I mean creepy. We just collected a whole heap of pinecones, so we’ll have a number of spiders to add to our decor outside. This is another one on our crafting list. Bright and colourful, this craft is perfect for little ones who may scare easily. You’re bound to have access to sticks and rocks! If you have no chestnuts for the spider craft above, try this one. If you have any cookie cutters at home use this to cut a silhouette out of a pumpkin. You should see them tumbling about in the wind. All you need is a few sticks and some yarn/wool. Perfect for little ones and it will build those fine motor skills quickly too! For a super simple pumpkin craft try this. Gumnut Ghosts. If you find gumnuts big enough you can make these gumnut ghosts into finger puppets.After you’ve made it, learn all about the only mammal that can fly. Celebrate spiders and show kids they’re not that scary! Kids will love making these ones dance. Grass spider web? How cool is this! Time to get the scissors out and collect some really long grass where the lawn mower can’t get to. Ahem, I mean really spooky! If you have similar leaves laying around. Leaf Ghost Puppets. These leaf puppets are adorable.If they’re not sure what to make, check out below for some incredible inspiration! Halloween Nature Crafts Once you have all your materials set out on a table, along with some basic craft binding items, let your children create something spooky with them. Collect sticks, leaves, stones, seed pods, pinecones, sand and more. Head outside with your kids and collect a whole bunch of natural materials. We have a list of spooky Halloween Nature crafts for you below, but don’t forget to try making your own. You’d better get out and collect those natural materials with your kids right away! Get crafty with natural materials So many crafts to try and only a few weeks left until the big day. So, this is for people like us who celebrate Halloween whole-heartedly. We’re always making other people’s ideas too. It’s important for us to have family traditions, we enjoy celebrating and learning about the ‘scary’ animals and we adore making our own Halloween nature crafts. You’d be pressed to find one in every four people who were into it. Halloween isn’t celebrated in Australia like other parts of the world. ‘Oh,’ I said rather sadly, while quickly thinking of another topic before the silence got awkward. I was about to tell a friend recently all about our Halloween nature crafts and she quickly interrupted, ‘We don’t celebrate Halloween.’

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