Spooky Cats on Your Table

Liven up your family's meals with Halloween placemats and napkin holders. Kids' cat-creativity shines through as they design each one!

1. Using Crayola® Colored Pencils, sketch cats and other Halloween images on white paper. Color your sketches with Crayola Crayons and colored pencils.

2. To make placemat borders, attach each of your drawings to a larger piece of black construction paper using Crayola School Glue.

3. Write Happy Halloween or other holiday words on bright construction paper. Cut out the words with Crayola Scissors. Glue the greetings on each placemat. Dry.

4. Ask an adult to help you cover placemats with clear plastic adhesive so they can be cleaned with a damp cloth.

5. To make napkin holders, cut cardboard tubes into as many pieces as you need for a set of napkin holders to go with your placemats. With a white colored pencil, sketch cat faces, paws, and tails on black construction paper. Make faces and paws large enough to cover the cardboard tubes, and tails long enough to stick out above the faces. Cut out all the pieces.

6. Cover your craft area with newspaper. Add cat features to the heads, paws, and tails using Crayola Washable Kid's Paint and Paint Brushes. Air-dry the paint.

7. Glue faces, paws, and tails to the cardboard tubes. Place a festive Hallmark® Halloween napkin inside each napkin holder.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Adult Assistance is required for this arts & crafts project.

Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.

Recycled Cardboard Tubes—Use paper towel tubes, gift-wrap tubes, or long cardboard tubes that can be cut to any length. Health professionals caution against using recycled toilet paper tubes for arts & crafts projects because of the potential fecal contamination.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.

Cute Cats & Kittens

Amazing Butterfly

Sandy Desert

Crafts

crayola supplies

• Paint Brush
• Crayons
• Colored Pencils
• Washable Kid's Paint
• No-Run School Glue
• Blunt-Tip Scissors

household supplies

• recycled newspaper
• recycled cardboard roll from Hallmark gift wrap
• white paper
• paper towels
• container(s) of water
• clear plastic adhesive (such as Con-Tact® paper)

"Children made placemat sets for their families. What a neat personal touch for the Halloween season!"
Serena V., family child care provider.

"Our students used these for their snacks the whole month of October. It was such a hit, we'll make other theme sets for each month."
Lucy R., after-school volunteer.

Jack o' Lanterns became popular as house decorations in the United States after immigrants from Ireland discovered how much easier pumpkins (native to North America) were to carve than turnips. Pumpkin carving has since become an art form.