Last week we made adorable footprint ghost Halloween cards to send to friends and family.

Here is what you need to make your own:

Black paper
White and Black Paint
A larger paint brush or sponge
a few Q-tips
Newspaper to cover the floor
Cut the black paper in half so that you have 2 long pieces (like a hot dog not a hamburger), and fold each piece into a card with the fold on top and the opening along the bottom. Depending on the size of your child's feet you may need to adjust this.
Cover the floor with newspaper. Pick one of your child's feet and cover the bottom of it with white paint. Once the bottom of the foot is covered have him or her step down on the black paper. The heal of your child's footprint is the "head" of the ghost and the toes are the flowing bottom of the ghost, so make sure that keep that in mind when having them step on the card.
Wash feet off and let the ghosts dry a bit. Once the white paint is dry add eyes and a mouth using the Q-tips and black paint.
We glued squares of white paper inside and wrote notes to the people we are sending the cards to. A cute keepsake to help remember little toes and a nice way to say hello.
Oh, and did you know my good friend Mommy-Momo has cool toddler friendly crafts featured every Monday and you can join in?




7 share your thoughts with me:
Adorable! You have to be loving this crafting age.
I'M SOOO DOING THIS! Great and cute idea! I love it. I'm making it this week and will be featuring it Monday! thanks so much for playing along. this is why I'm doing it... to get other awesome ideas. love it...
I LOVE those! TOO CUTE!
Oh my goodness! I love those! I think we will have to do those when Gaige's friends come over next Monday. Or maybe 4 boys and paint is a bad idea. Maybe we will do it when they all go home. In any case, they are so cute!
This is the best. They're so cute. My boys would LOOOOVE this.
these are soooo cute! I wish my kids' school recognized halloween as not the devil's holiday and I would do this for a party- I love them- thanks for the idea!
We made these today and they turned out so cute! We went a bit crazy and made 14 of them. The G-man kept thinking of more people he wanted to give them to. I think he just wanted his feet painted again! Anyway, thanks for the great idea!
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