Make Your Own Halloween Invitations

For Your Next Halloween Party

To make your Halloween party truly unique you can make your own Halloween invitations. The invitations we have included here were simple and fuss free to create and can be whipped up in an afternoon. If you have older kids they can help you out with the cutting and pasting.

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Concertina Invitations
These Halloween invitations can be made with pumpkins, ghosts, bats or any other simple Halloween shape.

What You Need:

Colored paper(s)
Scissors

Cut out a 20 x 3inch strip of paper. Make a fold 21/2 inches from one end and cotinue folding the paper back on itself until the entire strip is pleated. Draw your picture on the front, making sure that it touches both the left and right of the paper in at least one place. This is where the concertina holds together. Cut around your design, leaving the edges intact. If you have any fiddly cutting to do (like eyes and mouth) a sharp cutting blade will give a cleaner result than scissors. Unfold and voila!
You can write directly onto the concertina or glue it to a card with the party details inside.

Ghostly Halloween Invitation

What You Need:

3x6 inch black card
orange paper
white paper
semi transparent paper/ tracing paper
silver ballpoint pen

Draw a ghost onto the white paper, making sure that it will fit onto the black card. With the tracing paper trace over the ghost drawing a shape slightly larger that the original ghost, leave a tab at the top which will be folded over and glued to the page. Trace a final ghost, this time with orange paper, again slightly larger than the tracing paper ghost. Glue the ghosts to the black card- orange first, then the white ghost and finally the tracing paper ghost. The tracing paper ghost will only be glued on the small tab which need to tuck under the white ghost so that it is not visible. This gives a floating ghostly appearance.
Finally, add your party details using the silver pen. You can also add cobwebs and spiders to the black card to add to the spookiness.

Peek-A-Boo Halloween Invitation
A simple but effective Halloween invitation that only requires a bit careful cutting and folding for effect.
 
What You Need:
 
3x5-inch card -can be colored
8-1/2x11-inch white paper
Tracing paper
Pencil
Scissors
White construction paper
 
Center the 3x5-inch index card in the middle of the sheet of 8-1/2x11-inch paper. Trace around the sides and top so that you know where the written part of the invitation will sit. This also forms the central body area of your ghost.
Draw a head at the top and arms at the sides of the tracing, making sure that the bottom section folds up leaving a space for the word 'BOO!'. The two side 'arms' will cover the 'BOO!' when folded over.
Cut out, cutting a wavy edge along the bottom.
Write the party information on the 3x5-inch card and glue it in the position where you traced earlier. Draw on a face for the ghost and fold up the bottom section and the 'arms'.
Finally write 'PEEK-A-' on the outside of the card.

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