Ghost Painting with Cookie Cutters
Ghosts can be a great Halloween theme. You have scary ghosts and fun ghosts. This is a simple ghost painting that kids of different ages can do.
Just use a cookie cutter, black paper and white paper. You can make an amazing ghost painting with kids. They will enjoy the painting activity and have a super fun Halloween Painting for kids.
Plus this is a simple Halloween craft.
The Ghost Painting is a great addition to the Halloween Crafts and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.
What is Cookie Cutter Painting?
Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.
Ghost Painting with Cookie Cutters
Ghost painting is painting inside ghost cookie cutters with white paint on a black paper. A fun painting and fine motor activity for Halloween.
Favorite Ghost Book for Kids
Ten Timid Ghosts is a favorite counting book for us. You count 10 ghosts in the book. And it is great Halloween book.
What We Used to Make the Ghost Painting
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How we made the Ghost Painting
You can see the steps below that we used to make the Ghost painting.
Step 1: Place the Ghost Cookie Cutter on the Black Paper
You are going to start by placing the ghost cookie cutter on the black paper. You can see what the it does not matter where on the paper you place the cookie cutter.
Step 2: Hold the Ghost Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside
You are going to hold the ghost cookie cutter and then use a cotton swab to paint inside the cookie cutter. You want to make sure you hold tight on the cookie cutter.
You want to make sure to paint all around the inside of the cookie cutter.
Step 3: Look the the Ghost on the Paper
You are going to lift up the cookie cutter and look at the ghost. The painting strokes from the cotton swab make a fun swirled ghost on the paper.
Step 4: Keep Painting Ghosts
After you have one ghost painted you can paint another ghost. Just pick another part of the paper to paint on.
And know that you can fill the page with ghost or just paint a few ghosts. And the ghosts can overlap. Let kids have fun painting the ghosts.
You can also check out this other ghost painting we did.
Final look at our Ghost Painting
More Ghost Activities for Kids
Ghost Shape Easy Reader Book & Clip Cards is a great shape book for Halloween. You have 9 shapes for kids to learn. You also have matching clip cards to use with the shape book.
Ghosts in the Sky Oil Pastel & Watercolor is a fun watercolor and oil pastel painting activity. This is a great mix art project for kids.
Halloween Sensory Bin is full of different Halloween themes like spiders, pumpkins, bats, ghosts, and bones. And is super simple to set up.
Check out all the fun Halloween Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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