Halloween Cat Crafts and Resources
Free Pumpkin Carving Templates, Graphics, Colouring Pages, and More
Oct 6, 2009
The following are links to free pumpkin carving templates and photos, clip-art, colouring pages, and simple kids’ costume instructions for busy parents, as well as a recipe for yummy chocolate cat cookies.
Free Pumpkin Carving Templates, Instructions, and Photos
Visit the Pumpkin Crafts page for links to a large number of free pumpkin carving templates and photos of elaborate pumpkin artwork, ranging from simple projects suitable for younger kids to challenging designs for older children and adults. In addition to pumpkin carving designs, the page has links to art projects that involve pumpkin painting and building cats and other animals out of multiple small pumpkins and gourds. Projects include everything from a simple painted kitty to intricately carved cats, owls, alligators, and other animal sculptures made from collections of miniature pumpkins.
Free Halloween Clip-Art – Halloween Kitties
Visit the Halloween Graphics page for links to above-average Halloween clip-art collections, including a broad array of feisty Halloween kitties.
Free Halloween Colouring Pages and Other Printables
Visit Woo! Jr. for a series of free, printable Halloween cat colouring pages. The site also offers printable masks, kids’ Halloween costume ideas, scavenger hunt lists and word puzzles, Halloween games, and unusual ideas for pumpkin carving and decorating (with free pumpkin stencils).
Free Kids’ Halloween Costume Ideas and Instructions
The Fleece Farm provides directions to make quick, easy, inexpensive animal costumes for kids, including cat, puppy, bunny, sheep, turtle, cow, tiger, ladybug, and butterfly.
Halloween Recipe – Cat Cookies on Sticks
Kids love these yummy chocolate cat face cookies. The following quick and easy recipe makes 24:
Cookie Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup baking cocoa (unsweetened cocoa powder)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Decorations
- 24 Popsicle sticks or wooden craft sticks
- 48 Candy Corn candies
- 24 Red Hot candies
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cream sugar and butter together and then beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine all dry ingredients and mix them into the creamed mixture.
Roll the dough into balls about 1.5 inches in diameter, set them several inches apart on greased cookie sheets, and insert a stick (lollipop style) into each. Next, dip a glass in sugar and use it to flatten each of the cookies. Then pinch the tops of the cookies to create ears and press a fork into each “cheek” to create whiskers. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
As soon as cookies are removed from the oven, press a Red Hot candy into the center of each cat face to create a nose, and two Candy Corns for eyes. Then remove the cookies to wire racks to cool.
To create an attractive Halloween display, place cat cookies upright on their sticks in some sort of spooky Halloween container, such as a small witch’s cauldron.
For more Halloween recipes, visit the Halloween Food page.
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