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This Halloween art project is great for school kids or adults!
The background resembles a sunset and it
is very easily created. Making the
sunset gives you a chance to practice blending colors of paint.
Then, using black paint a scary scene is
painted on the sunset. This is
where students can really use their imagination. It
gives them practice drawing the outlines of shapes and choosing what
elements to add to the scene. Here
I show how to make a tree, haunted house, and a tombstone.
Try making bats, witches, cemeteries,
fences, jack-o-lanterns, etc. to make your own spooky scene!
Things Needed for ths
Halloween art project:
- Large piece of painting paper
- Large and small paintbrush (large is for
the sunset, the small one is for making the scene)
- Red paint (acrylic, tempera, or
watercolors all work well)
- Orange paint (acrylic, tempera, or
watercolors all work well)
- Yellow paint (acrylic, tempera, or
watercolors all work well)
- Black paint (acrylic or tempera
recommended)
- Water
- Making the
sunset background is actually very easy. My
four year old is shown here and she did quite well with a little help.
Begin with a nice large paintbrush,
like the type you would use to paint trim in your house.
Load it up well with red paint, and
then paint a wide strip along the top of the paper as shown.
- Right below the
red strip, paint a wide orange strip. You can slightly overlap the
colors.
- Last, paint a
wide yellow strip at the bottom. The
paper should now all be covered.
- Clean off the
brush well with water, and leave the brush a little wet.
Go back over and swipe the brush
across where the two colors meet, to help them blend.
- Allow this paper
to dry very well, preferably overnight.
6. Now it is time for your imagination.
Using the black paint, paint a wavy
line about one inch from the bottom of the paper, in the red
stripe area,
and fill it in. This is
the ground of your Halloween scene.
- Paint whatever
figures and objects you can think of. Making
a tree is very easy, and I will describe how paint one in the next few
steps. Begin by making a tree trunk
and two branches, which will look like a “Y”, as
shown.
- Continue to add
branches to the two shown by branching smaller ones out from it, and
then smaller ones from those. Use
the photos as guides.
 
- Need more ideas?
Try making a bunch of
jack-o-lanterns piled up, a black cat on a fence, a spooky cemetery
scene, or a witch on a broom with bats flying around her.
Have fun and use your imagination!
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