Halloween Crafts Helping Development!

With Halloween creeping up on us this week, it's a great opportunity to have some fun with your child's development! One way to do that is to do some fun Halloween crafts! By getting your kids crafting, they're using their little fingers to develop fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements in your body, like your fingers or your toes! The best way to develop those fine motor movements, is to do them!

Here are some fun, easy Halloween crafts to get those fingers moving!

• Paint a Pumpkin: draw silly faces or just make some awesome designs
• Apple Printing Pumpkins: cut an apple in half, put some orange paint and use it as a stamp! Draw silly faces to make them really look like pumpkins
• Make a Spooky Storybook: You can write a story on some paper and have your child make the illustrations to make a book!
• Lollipop Ghosts: tie a tissue around the sucker and draw some black eyes and you've got a ghost for a lollipop! (A great thing to give to friends or trick or treaters!)
• Hand Spiders: Dip your hands in black paint and press them on paper with your wrists together to make spiders! Your fingers will look like legs!
• Cookie Decorating: Get some fun cookie cutters and decorate them for Halloween!
• Mummy Cups: Wrap your snack cup in gauze or toilet paper and stick on some eyes to make them look like mummies. 
• Carve Pumpkins: this is probably the most popular craft come Halloween! Just make sure that mom and dad are helping!

His little fingers will get lots of movement out of all of these fun activities, it's a so much more exciting to work on development when you're doing fun things!

For more ideas here are some sites:
Parents.com Hallowen Crafts
All Kids Network Halloween Crafts
Family Education Halloween Fun

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