stART- Hide And Ghost Seek

This is my first time participating with stART, hosted at A Mommy’s Adventures.  Basically you read a story and do an art project based on said story with your little ones.  I love incorporating hands-on fun with our reading!  We picked one of the many books from our Fall/Halloween reading basket…

Hide and Ghost Seek.  It’s a fun counting book where you have to look for a certain number of hidden ghosts throughout the story.  It’s been a favorite of ours for years.  I read it with ds4, but ds3 hopped over and said, “Hey, didn’t we used to read this?” and joined in.  :)

Ds3 took our pic first.

For the art project we made glue ghosts.  Now technically I’d call this a craft project, I hope that doesn’t disqualify me from the whole stART thing.  I can’t remember just where I found the idea for these, but basically you need:

glue
waxed paper
string
googly eyes
construction paper
a plastic spoon or wooden craft stick

Okay, take your string (we used yarn) and make a basic ghost shape on the waxed paper, leaving the ghosts bottom “open.”  Squeeze glue into the shape, spreading with the spoon or stick if necessary.  Add the googly eyes and a construction paper mouth if desired.  Let dry 24 hours.  Carefully peel your ghost off the waxed paper.

Very hard to get a good pic of these, but there ‘ya go.  The eyes and mouth on this one kinda slid around during the drying process, but I think that adds to the ghostly effect.  This was cute, fun and easy and a neat project to go with our book.  Head over to A Mommy’s Adventures to see even more book themed art projects.