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Green Kid!
a discover, play, and learn activity guide for kids 3-8
Issue 4
October 2013
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GREEN KID! ACTIVITY GUIDE
- Complete step-by-step directions for tons of fun
and educational activities, lesson plans, and more
related to a new and exciting monthly theme.
Every month Green Kid Crafts subscribers get an exclusive, award-winning activity guide (a $5.95 value!). Each Green Kid! Activity Guide is designed by early education experts around a new and exciting
theme intended to teach kids about the world around them as they have fun, flex their creativity, and
build confidence through innovative, open-ended projects, puzzles, games, reading lists, and more!
Our Halloween Green Kid! Activity Guide is all about exploring and learning about this fun holiday!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Cover
2. Green your Halloween
3. Fun facts about Halloween
4. Personality pumpkin
5. Hidden picture coloring page
6. Milk jug scarecrow
7. Halloween house connect the dots
8. Spider maze
9. Hand spider craft
10. Milk jug luminaries
11 Halloween match up
12. Safe and natural face paint recipe
13. Little monsters
14. Halloween handwriting
15. Halloween food ideas
16. Melted crayon pumpkins
17-20. Make your own monster
21. Green Kid Store
21. Free Superhero Cape Set
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Green Your Halloween
The easiest way to go green is to keep this mantra in
mind, “Make, Not Buy.” Your wallet and the planet
will thank you if you repurpose things you already
have instead of consuming more. The added benefit is that
you also get to break out your inner ‘Martha’ and do something fun with your kids.
Here are some more specific tips for greening-up Halloween’s
big 3: costumes, decor and treats:
1. Costumes: Set up a costume swap in your neighborhood!
This is a fun way to save money while building community.
Also, one other extremely important way you can green your
Halloween is to avoid using store bought face paints, especially on children, as they have been found to contain lead. It’s
super easy to mix up your own! Check out our recipe on page
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2. Decor: One spin through our Halloween Pinterest board and
you’ll find a ton of great Halloween crafts, costume ideas, and
treats: pinterest.com/greenkidcrafts/halloween/
3. Treats: GreenHalloween.org has a whole list of great ideas
that are healthier and a nice change of pace from the stale
chocolate that will otherwise fill everyone’s bags.
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ABOUT GREEN KID CRAFTS
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- We save busy families time and money through our curated box full of educational,
hands-on, and eco-friendly activities, delivered right to your door each month for
$19.95/month!
- Each Discovery Box contains 3-4 Creativity Kits, fun extras, extension activities, and a
20+ page themed Green Kid! Activity Guide.
- Each Creativity Kit is designed by parents and tested by kids.
- Green Kid Crafts is a mom-owned and operated green company.
- Green Kid Crafts’ mission is to help solve the Creativity Crisis facing the nation’s youth
and to inspire future generations of creative leaders.
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HALLOWEEN FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN
Turnips Anyone?: The first Jack O’Lanterns were actually made from turnips.
From Tradition to Candy: Trick-or-treating evolved from the ancient Celtic tradition
of putting out treats and food to placate spirits who roamed the streets at Samhain,
a sacred festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year.
A Reminder: Halloween once was a festival that marked the boundaries between
life and death.
Meaningful Colors: Black and orange are typically associated with Halloween. Orange is a symbol of strength and endurance and, along with brown and gold, stands
for the harvest and autumn.
Not just for the Birds: Scarecrows, a popular Halloween fixture, symbolize the ancient agricultural roots of the holiday.
How to see a Witch: According to tradition, if a person wears his or her clothes
inside out and then walks backwards on Halloween, he or she will see a witch at
midnight.
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Personality Pumpkin
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Pinterest boards!
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Cut out the shapes to make
your own pumpkin face!
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This kooky witch is cooking up something spooky. Help her complete this mysterious potion by finding
4 bones, 4 worms, 3 mushrooms, and 2 snails in the picture. Then have fun coloring it in!
The Witch's Brew
Milk Jug Scarecrow
1.
SUPPLY LIST
- milk jug, old shirt and hat, tape, broom stick,
hanger and markers.
INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Gather supplies. Tape the hanger to the
top of broom stick.
Step 2: Attach the milk jug to the very top. This
will be the head of scarecrow.
Step 3: Put the shirt(s) on the hanger to make the
body. Draw a fun face on the milk jug head.
Step 4: Add a hat to the top and put in the garden. Beware birds!
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Connect the dots to make this spooky Halloween house!
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1.
Hand Spider
SUPPLY LIST
- white card stock, black paint, googly eyes,
scissors and glue.
2.
INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Cover your hands with black paint
and then place them palm to palm on the
card stock.
Step 2: Once your handprints are dry, cut out
the whole set of handprints out in one piece.
Step 3: Glue eyes onto the spider.
Step 4: Bend up the legs of the spider a bit.
Hang on your door to scare away intruders :)
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Milk Jug Luminaries
SUPPLY LIST
- empty milk jugs, black marker, knife (adults only), tea light candles
(electric) or Christmas lights.
INSTRUCTIONS
Wash out your milk jugs and dry. Cut a hole in the bottom of them.
Draw a face with the markers. To light up, place electric tea light candles inside them or line up and stuff with a strand of Christmas lights.
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Safe & Natural Face Paint Recipe
INSTRUCTIONS
Base:
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ¼ tsp water to make paste
- 1/2 tsp diaper rash cream for staying power!
(California Baby and Burt’s Bees are good, but you
can choose another natural brand.)
- Colorful foods (pureed in a blend) to make desired shades (you can also use natural, organic
pigments or food coloring, see below)
Mix the first three ingredients together to make a thick white paste. Then,
take a little bit of the base and mix with different foods to create your desired
colors. We’ve had a lot of success with blackberries (pretty rose color), avocado with a squirt of lemon juice (green) and hummus (orangey-brown). You
can also use coffee/tea (browns, black), corn (yellowish color) and cherries
(red). As different foods have different water content, you make have to add a
bit more cornstarch to the mix depending on if your paint gets too runny once
you add the colorful foods.
Use a clean sponge, paintbrush, or fingers to apply the paint. You can easily
remove it with soap and water.
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Little Monsters
SUPPLY LIST
- cardboard tube rolls
- pipe cleaners
- pom poms
- paint/markers
INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Start with a variety
of cardboard tubes in different sizes.
Step 2: Cut to different sizes and paint in a variety of
bright colors.
Step 3: Create fun, simple, whimsical and goofy monster faces with markers.
Step 4: Use pom poms, toothpicks and more cardboard to create little details
for the monsters.
Find more more DIY
ideas on Facebook!
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Check out more treat ideas on:
pinterest.com/greenkidcrafts/halloween
Halloween Treat Ideas
Mummy Snacks
Pumpkin Pretzels
Stuffed Jack-O-Lantern Bell Peppers
Mummy Cupcakes
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Melted Crayon Pumpkins
Check out more treat ideas on:
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SUPPLY LIST
- crayon pieces, hair dryer, pumpkins
INSTRUCTIONS
Arrange crayon pieces around the top of the pumpkin, around the stem. Turn
the hair dryer on high and watch the melted wax melt down the sides of your
pumpkins!
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Make your own Monsters!
Make your own monsters
by cutting out the monster pieces on this and the
following pages. Mix and
match the pieces to make
your own unique monsters!
Glue your creations to a separate peice of paper.
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GREEN KID STORE
Also, don’t forget to visit greenkidcrafts.com to check out our Birthday Activities and Party Favors, Discovery Boxes, and Creativity Kits!
Single Discovery Boxes:
Music
Giving Box
Outer Space Explorer
Rainforest
Around the World
Planet Protector
Weather
Birthday Activities and Party Favors:
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GREEN KID CHALLENGE
Don’t let the fun stop here! Each month you’ll gve
invitited to take on a new challenge that will help
to make the planet a better place.
Here is this month’s Challenge:
What can you do to reuse toilet paper rolls? Have
your parents take a photo of a way your family has reused them, upload the photo at Facebook.com/greenkidcrafts and we’ll send you a free adhesive Planet
Protector Badge (at right). You’ll be entered to win a
Superhero Cape and Mask Set, too (at right)!
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