Halloween paper plate craft

The first week of October I was mainly focusing on making my son's Iron Man costume, check it out here if you missed that one.

This last week I knew we needed to put up some Halloween decor around the house.

I was strolling around on where else?  Pinterest of course, and I saw a picture of a paper plate ghost over at  Clean & Scentsible. The lady had used the ghost as Halloween decor for a party.

I used the same idea for the ghost, but then we decided we needed a few more pieces to go along with it.

We currently have a big, blank, white wall behind our dining room table, and I thought it would be the perfect spot to display our art work.

Supplies

any type of paper plate (we used the foam ones)

paints (we use the acrylic ones, we usually get them from Michael's)

paint brushes

glue stick

construction paper

tissue paper

scissors

Originally we were just planning on just doing two plates,  

the ghost and the spider.

However, after hanging them up on the wall my son decided we should do a pumpkin and witch as well.

there was more room, so I thought that was an excellent idea :) more crafting for us!

For the ghost I just painted the eyes and mouth on a white plate.  

I cut the hands out of construction paper and glued them on, 

and then glued strips of white tissue paper underneath.

For the spider, my son painted his plate (the body of the spider) black.
While the body was drying. we cut the legs out of construction paper.

We didn't have black paper, so we had to paint it as well.

Once the legs dried we glued them to the body.

According to my son this needed to be a happy spider, so he painted a happy face.

I kind of forgot to take pictures of us making the pumkin and witch, sorry!

For the pumpkin my son painted it orange, and then I drew the eyes and mouth with pencil and my son painted them black.

For the witch I painted her green and then added her features with black paint.

I drew lines on purple construction paper for the hair, and let my son cut that out.  We then glued that 'hair' onto the witch.

My son came up with the idea for the hat.

We were out of black paint and black construction paper, so he went to our 'craft supply box' and pulled out some black felt.  Smart kid!  Using his imagination to solve a problem, I was so proud.

We cut out a hat shape and glued it on.

We loved the way they turned out.

How do you decorate for Halloween?