Paper Chains for Halloween

When I was a child every major holiday mum would sit down with her paper pack and select suitable colours and then cut up the paper so we could make paper chains – there would be red and green for Christmas, orange and black for Halloween and red and pink for valentines. So today with J I decided that during one of T’s naps we could do some paper chains for Halloween as we are having a party on Friday afternoon.

What you need

Paper – we used sugar paper and flourescent paper
Sticky tape

How the fun happens

Our strips ready to make chains with

Fold the paper in half (portrait fold down from the top) and tear (I think the tear gives a great effect for Halloween but would probably cut for other holidays) then fold in half again and tear and half again and tear so you end up with 8 strips.

Purple and green paper chain - brings back so many childhood memories

We used alternating colours – black and orange and purple and green which are suitably Halloween colours I think. Then make a loop and stick the ends with sticky tape. J loved using the sticky tape and helping with the tearing – we now have a table covered in sticky tape and various small parts of paper that he has torn – I have saved all of these for use in future crafts by putting them in a zip loc bag and into the craft box.

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