Football Player Disguise A Ghost Project [Free PDF Template]
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Kids will love helping a friendly ghost decide on a Halloween costume this year. He doesn’t want to spook anyone, so he’s dressing up instead!
This football player disguise a ghost project will have kids create a ghost wearing a football helmet and carrying a football ready for the game!
Once they’re done with this Halloween ghost craft, find even more disguises for the ghost to try and lots of other fun Halloween crafts for kids to keep them busy this October!
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Hide The Ghost As A Football Player
This football player ghost is a fun and easy project to make, and it’ll be a touchdown with your kiddos! Kids will cut and glue to create a ghost that looks like it is ready to take the field, so it’s a great way for kids to also use their imaginations.
Completing this paper ghost project gives your little ghosts and ghouls a chance to strengthen important skills. Cutting out the shapes, assembling the pieces, and decorating their ghosts supports fine motor development, focus, and following directions. Plus, kids can also use creative storytelling to imagine their ghost joining a Halloween football game.
A free printable ghost template makes it simple to turn a plain ghost into a sporty football player. Gather some cardstock, scissors, and glue for kids to create their own designs. This Halloween activity will be a favorite for classrooms and families!
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Football Player Disguise A Ghost Project Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this football player ghost to life!
Take the helmet stripe piece and glue it onto the top of the colored helmet piece.
Next, glue the ghost face onto the bottom of the football helmet you just assembled.
With the head complete, it’s time to put the body together. Glue the completed head to the top of the ghost’s body.
After that, color in the football and glue it onto the middle of the ghost’s body.
The final step is to glue the arms onto the ghost’s body, making it look like the ghost is holding the football. Now you have a super cute football player ghost!
This football player ghost disguise is a great way for kids to show off their creativity. While you’re here, be sure to check out more fun Halloween art ideas for even more spooky-cute projects to try!
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Room On The Broom: This has to be one of our favorite Halloween books of all time! The story follows a witch and her cat as they happen upon some animals who help the witch. There’s danger, mystery, and friendship in this adorable children’s story.
5 Minute Spooky Stories: We love Disney’s 5-minute storybooks and this one is perfect for Halloween! See how all your favorite Disney characters celebrate this spooky holiday.
Ten Timid Ghosts: This is a fun countdown book about a witch who moves into a haunted house where 10 ghosts already live. The witch scares the ghosts out one by one until they devise a scheme to get her out of their house. This Halloween children’s book is good for kids who love rhyming stories!
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Skeleton Halloween Craft – Bring some spooky fun to Halloween with this easy paper skeleton. It’s great to adapt for kids of all skill levels, so even your littlest ones can get in on the Halloween creativity. Just print the free template, snip out the pieces, and assemble the body!
Paper Plate Monster Craft – Kids can make a not-too-spooky monster out of a paper plate, paint, and some silly googly eyes for Halloween. They’ll love creating their funny Halloween creature, and each one can look totally different. It’s a simple project that’s full of imaginative fun!
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Handprint Bat Craft – Fly into Halloween fun by turning little handprints into a batty project! This silly bat is easy to make with everyday supplies and your child’s handprints. Kids will trace, cut, and assemble their bat to make a festive decoration perfect to display at home or in the classroom.
Frankenstein Paper Plate Craft – Your mad scientists can bring Frankenstein to life with a simple paper plate! They’ll paint the plate then add hair, bolts, and details from our free template to create their own friendly Frank. Kids will love this monster making fun!
Halloween Ideas For Kids
These candy corn coloring pages are a sweet way to celebrate Halloween! You’ll find 3 adorable designs in this set.
There’s a mummy candy corn, a vampire candy corn, and a candy corn dressed as a witch. Each page has big open spaces so they’re easy for little hands to color in.
Coloring helps kids practice fine motor skills, explore creativity, and learn their colors in a creative way. Grab some crayons or markers to see these candy corn full of color!
Your little ones will love dotting their way through 23 pages of Halloween do a dot printables! This set is filled with number hunts, letter recognition, dot coloring, and more!
They’re designed for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids to make learning playful and engaging.
They’ll be able to strengthen important skills while having a spook-tacular time! Incorporate these printables into your lessons for a simple way to keep the holiday both fun and educational.
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Just give your cauldron a stir and you’ll come up with these Halloween pattern block mats. Kids will complete spooky pictures by matching pattern blocks to the shapes within the illustrations.
Each mat encourages your little witches and wizards to plan, think, and crate as they piece the designs together. Be sure to laminate the pages so you can use them again and again all October long. This fun, hands-on STEAM activity is sure to be a hit this Halloween!
This spider slime for Halloween is oozing with creepy crawly fun for kids! They’ll love squishing and stretching the gooey slime and playing with the tiny toy spiders.
This simple activity turns plain white slime into a hands-on sensory adventure that’s equal parts silly and spooky!
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Football Player Disguise A Ghost Project
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Football Player Disguise A Ghost Project Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Glue the white stripe onto the top of the colored helmet piece.
- Next, attach the ghost's face to the bottom of the template.
- Then, take the completed head and glue it on top of the ghost’s body.
- After that, color in the football, then glue it onto the ghost's body.
- Finish by gluing the arms to the back and sides of the ghost.
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