Mrs. Cambria's Art Room

Haunted House

Materials:

-scissors

-glue

-construction paper crayons

-pre-printed construction paper with lines where the students will cut

-2 pieces of orange construction paper

-a pre-printed page of monsters (optional)

-pre-cut strips of paper for a roof

-assorted colors of quartered construction paper.

Courtney

Haunted House Overview: A 3D haunted house for Halloween!  This is a 2 week lesson, so start it about halfway through October.  

Week One: Build the houses

1- Begin with the pre-printed construction paper with guidelines of where to cut.  Fold it in half hamburger style.  The 2 long lines should be touching the crease.  
2- Cut the 2 long lines.  (Remind students to cut exactly on on the lines and no further.)
3- Fold the flap between the 2 cuts.  The bottom crease, when folded upwards correctly will line up evenly with the top of the page.  Now the 2 shorter lines should show and be even with the bottom of the inside crease.
4- Cut the 2 short lines and fold the smaller flap made by those cuts to the top of the page like in the last step.
5- Unfold, and fold the page so all the creases are pointed out.  It will look kind of like stairs.
6- Glue the edges of this folded page onto an orange piece of construction paper that has been folded in half hamburger style.
7- If the students have time, let them color the yard and a moon in the sky with construction paper crayons, and let them sponge-paint the sky with purple or blue powder paint.  
8- Put houses with wet paint on the drying rack.
*Once the paint of the sky is dry, fold the houses down like a book and put a big rubber band around the whole class’ houses; so when they come back next week the houses will be well creased. 

 Week Two: Decorating the house and populating it with monsters
1- Color the front walls of the house, with a door, bricks and windows. And color the roof areas with a shingles pattern.
2- On the pre-cut strip of construction paper draw the same shingles pattern to match the roof.  then fold the strip in half.
3- Glue the roof onto the top.
4- Lightly crumble the 2nd piece of orange construction paper into a ball and insert it into the house to prop it up.

5- Add monsters!  The students can use the monsters on the copied pages or use the colored construction papers to make their own. 

Will