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paper plates painted green, orange and purple for Halloween.
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Monster Paper Plate Craft

Make these fun and spooky or silly monsters with paper plates for your Halloween-themed craft!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Drying Time (for Paint)40 minutes
Keyword: halloween crafts, paper plate crafts
Servings: 1 paper plate

Equipment

  • 1 pair of scissors
  • paintbrush for each color of paint

Ingredients

  • 3-4 paper plates or as many monsters as you want to make!
  • acrylic paint in green, purple, orange, black and white.
  • construction paper in white, black and brown.
  • black yarn optional for witches' hair.
  • 1 glue stick or school glue.

Instructions

Dracula Paper Plate

  • Start by painting your paper plate black and purple, using the underside of the paper plate. Give your vampire a nice spiky hairline—it's his signature look.
  • Pre-cut the eyes, eyebrows, mouth and fangs of your character.
  • Secure pieces with glue and allow to dry.
  • Add pupils to the eyes and a nose with black marker.

Frankenstein Paper Plate

  • Start by painting your paper plate light green and black.
  • Give him a jagged hairline. Allow dry time.
  • Cut the eyes, tooth and mouth pieces from black and white paper. Use glue to secure the pieces to the plate.
  • Make sure the paint has dried, then use black marker to add pupils to the eyes and a scar with stitches to his forehead.

Witch Paper Plate

  • Prep by painting a plate light green.
  • Cut white, black and green paper to create shapes for eyes, noses and mouths. Cut hats from black paper.
  • Secure black yarn with glue to create hair. If you don't want to mess with yarn, replace with paper hair.

Jack-o'-Lantern Paper Plate

  • Start by painting your paper plate orange (bonus points for including multiple shades of orange for different pumpkins).
  • Cut brown paper to make a stem.
  • Cut black paper to create jack-o'-lantern faces. Secure with glue.