Paper Plate Flying Witch Craft!

Halloween is coming up soon and my littles are so beyond ready!

One of our favorite books to read together is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson! If you haven't read it you must! It's a Halloween staple!

So for todays craft we made our own flying witch! This was a little more of a "mom help me with a lot of it" craft than we usually do but still so fun and they turned out adorable!

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

- Paper plate
- Blue and yellow paint
- Paintbrushes
- Black and white colored pencil
- Jumbo craft sticks (2)
- Black and green cardstock or construction paper
- Orange and brown yarn
- Small googly eye
- Scissors
- Glue
- Craft knife
- Purple pipe cleaners


INSTRUCTIONS:

STEP 1: We began by painting our moon on on paper plates. You can also use a cup to trace the circle where the moon will be first if that helps. We then painted the the rest of our paper plates blue (or whatever color you like)! We also painted our jumbo craft sticks the same color as the plates. We placed them aside to dry.

STEP 2: Next up is putting the witch together. This is where my help really went into action because I traced everything for my kids to make for easy cutting. You don't necessarily need to do this unless your kids are young like mine. We cut out a circle for her head and small triangle nose from our green construction paper. We then cut out a witch hat, witch dress and fancy witch shoes out of our black cardstock. We glued orange yarn for her wind blown hair (haha) at the back of the witch head. We then glued the witch hat at the top of the head and the dress at the bottom of the head. And then glued on her small googly eye and nose and drew a smile on our witch with a black colored pencil. We took our purple pipe cleaners and glued them to the base of the witches dress and then glued her shoes on.

STEP 3: Next we assembled our witch broom. We cut off short pieces of brown yarn and then glued them to the end of the craft stick. We glued the witch onto the broom. We then glued them onto the end of our jumbo craft stick.

STEP 4: This next part is suggested for adults only because I don't want any littles getting hurt. Have an adult use a craft knife to cut a slit along the bottom 1/3 of your paper plate for your witch puppet to slide into.


And that's it!
Slide your witch down inside the paper plate slit. Hold the paper plate with one hand while you move the stick around with your other hand and watch your witch fly around on her broomstick! The kids will love it!