Haunted Box

A wonderful Halloween memory for B-Crafty’s boys centers around the “Haunted Box. B-Crafty designed and created this for a first grade class party where the children individually went into the box, put their hands through two ready made holes and tried to guess what they were touching. A class mom sat outside the back of the box holding bowls with brains (cooked spaghetti) and eyeballs (peeled grapes).  The kids ended up enjoying the outside of the box as much at the inside activity. Also B-Crafty added a rubber bat with  each students’ name that hung down from the roof of the box.

Issue #99

Occasion: Halloween

Category: Kids’ Activity

Materials:

• Refrigerator box
• Acrylic paints (gray, black, purple, green, brown, yellow, white)
• Egg carton for witch’s nose doorbell
• Black yarn
• Black and white construction paper
• Black elastic thread
• Thin wooden planks
• Rubber bats
• Purple and black plastic streamers

Instructions:

• Cut a large door on one side of the box.
• Fold the bottom flaps out so that they help the box stand up
• Paint the outside of the box with the gray paint
• Chose two different designs for the two sides of the box, i.e. a boarded up window, two sets of eyes looking out of a window
• Cut out two armholes on the backside of the box. To determine the height, make it easy for the child to stick their arms through without having to reach up or bend down.
• Cut the witch’s nose doorbell out of an egg carton and paint it green and add the eyes, yarn for the hair and the hat.
• Attach the purple and black streamers to a piece of cardboard as wide at the door opening and about 4 inches high. The streamers should be long enough to cover the whole door opening
• Attach the rubber bats to the inside top of the box with black elastic thread and add the name of the children in the class with white construction paper.
• Paint the roof with black or brown paint

B-Crafty Tip: For several Halloweens after using it in the classroom, B-Crafty placed the Haunted Box on her front porch for the neighborhood Trick or Treaters to see.