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October 1, 2014

Glitter Pumpkin Suncatcher Craft

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Simple kids crafts are my favorite! Not only are they easy to set up, but then kids can make them again and again on their own.

 These glitter pumpkin sun catchers are so fun that your kids or students will want to create their own sparkly pumpkin patch for your windows!

Glitter Pumpkin Sun Catchers! Simple Halloween Kids Craft to go with the story Spookley the Square Pumpkin!

One of our favorite Halloween books is The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin (affiliate link) by Joe Troiano. It’s a sweet story about how one pumpkin’s differences ending up saving the day. Kids and grown ups will love the message about how “you can’t judge a book, or a pumpkin…by its cover.”

At the end of the story the pumpkins in Spookley’s pumpkin patch come in every shape, size and color so we decided to make our pumpkin suncatchers the same way!

How to Make Contact Paper Suncatchers

  • clear contact paper
  • permanent marker
  • glitter
  • tissue paper
  • scissors

 Simple Pumpkin Craft for Preschool Kids!The kids drew pumpkin outlines and faces on the non-sticky side of the contact paper. Then we peeled off the back of the paper and added some glitter and small pieces of tissue paper.

When the kids were ready we stuck more contact paper to the back of the pumpkins, cut them out, and taped them to our dining room windows.

Simple Halloween Craft for Kids--Glitter Pumpkin Sun Catchers!

The kids made pumpkins in different colors and shapes like in the story and they look so lovely in the sunlight. The photos don’t do them justice so you’ll just have to try some for yourself!

 

This post is part of a Halloween Read and Play Blog Hop.  Make sure to check out the other Halloween book based activities!

Pleasantest Thing- Goodnight Goon- Halloween Slime
LalyMom- Five Little Pumpkins- Clothespin Activity
The Jenny Evolution- Go Away Big Green Monster- Paper Monster
Hand Made Kids Art-  The Legend of Spooky the Square Pumpkin- Square Pumpkin Art
The Inspired Treehouse- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Lovely Commotion- Pumpkin Pumpkin- Pumpkin Life Cycle
Bambini Travel- Broom, Zoom- Night Sky Activity
Chicken Babies- Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance- Monster Dancing and Eyeball Games
Preschool Powol Packets- Room on the Broom- Croaking Frog Craft
Adventures of Adam- Winnie the Witch- Multicolored Cat Project
Cutting Tiny Bites- Click, Clack, Boo!: A Tricky Treat- Sound Effects Box 
Cutting Tiny Bites- Click, Clack, Boo!: A Tricky Treat- Halloween Shadow Garland
Betsy’s Photography- Popcorn- Making Popcorn Bars
All Done Monkey- Runaway Pumpkin- Rolling Pumpkin Experiment
Kitchen Counter Chronicles- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown- Great Pumpkin Bowling Game
Mama Smiles- Where is Baby’s Pumpkin?- Felt Board Activity and Coloring Pages
Craft Ideas for Kids- Spider Sandwiches- Halloween Sensory Play: Monster Pizza Parlour
Teach Beside Me- Inside a House That is Haunted- Haunted House Craft
One Time Through- Magic School Bus: Haunted Museum- Spooky Sound Experiments
Bare Feet on the Dashboard- Curious George Goes to a Costume Party- Costumes and Pretend Play
Where Imagination Grows- 5 Little Ghosts- Ghost Collages
Fireflies and Mud Pies- Scary Scary Halloween- Halloween Necklace Craft
Artsy Momma- Pippa the Pumpkin Fairy- Pumpkin Wand and Pumpkin Crafts
Royal Baloo- AlphaOops- Halloween Letter Puppets
Rubberboots and Elf Shoes- Skeleton Hiccups- Paper Chain Skeleton
P is for Preschooler- Clifford’s Halloween- Cotton Ball Ghost Craft
Little Bins For Little Hands- ABCs of Halloween- Sensory Bin
Mama Miss- Sheep Trick-or-Treat- Sheep Craft, Activity, and Snack
Pink Stripey Socks- Scaredy-Cay Splat the Cat- Spider Costume
Fun-A-Day!- Big Pumpkin- Sequencing Activity
Line Upon Line Learning- The Spooky Old Tree- Prepositions Game
Kitchen Floor Crafts- Pumpkin Eye- Halloween Sticky Collage
Coffee Cups and Cratons- Spookley the Square Pumpkin- Glitter Pumpkin Sun Catchers
Wise Owl Factory- Bunnicula and others- Halloween Book Fun Learning Round Up
Planet Smarty Pants- The Picky Little Witch- Halloween Cupcakes
Study at Home Mama- 10 Halloween Books and 50 Activities

Don’t forget to check out the Halloween Read and Play Pinterest Board which features ALL these great activities!

 

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Melissa says

    October 3, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    Adorable craft!

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      October 4, 2014 at 1:32 pm

      Thanks Melissa!

      Reply

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