- Kids can make standard paper chains with construction paper, typing paper or any kind of scrap paper. Cut the paper into strips about 1-inch wide. Make a loop of the first one and tape it to secure it, then add additional strips, looping them through the one before them so that you create a linked chain. Classic orange and black can be alternated for a traditional looking Halloween decoration.
- If you only have white paper, make a paper chain and decorate the strips with Halloween stickers or rubber stamps, such as pumpkins, black cats or witches. You can also make die cuts of different Halloween monsters and glue one to the front of every other link. When you hang the chain, arrange it so that the links with the images are the ones that face outward toward the room.
- Paper chains don't have to be linked. You can make paper chains the same way you make paper dolls. Find a nice silhouette image featuring a Halloween theme. It can be a pumpkin, a witch flying on a broomstick, tombstones or skulls. The only requirement is that, when you accordion-fold the paper, the edges of the image go slightly off the edges of the paper. After you trace, cut and unfold it, you will have a linked Halloween-themed chain. Attach several linked chains to make a longer one to hang.
- If you are decorating with a dungeon theme this year, make your chains look like rusted shackles from a torture chamber. Use a heavy duty paper, such as card stock, to make the strips. Paint them before you cut them. Pour a small puddle of metallic acrylic paint, a few drops of black and a few drops of red on a disposable plate. Wet a sponge, squeeze it and randomly dab it in the three different paint puddles. If you pat this on the strips, the colors will blend to look like corroded metal. Allow one side to dry before doing the other side, and allow the strips to completely dry before linking them.
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