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Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Get kids in the Halloween spirit with this interactive DIY wool and felt board. Younger children will love decorating this haunted house with pumpkins, ghosts, bats and more. Added bonus:everything rolls up easily for storage from year to year.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Felt is adhered to the wool to facilitate the decoration of the haunted house. Hang this fun piece of art low where kids can reach it and leave it all month for a different Halloween activity every time they play.

Supplies

  • colored wool
  • black wool
  • scissors
  • Cutter
  • colorful handmade felt
  • felt Halloween dies
  • 2 wooden pegs
  • fabric glue
  • thread or rope

Use a large piece of yarn as the back panel. Choose a contrasting color for your haunted house.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

The panel will be kept straight by adding a wooden dowel at the top and bottom. Measure and cut the dowels to the width of the wool panel. Fold the yarn over the peg and pin.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Sew the channel so that the pins close at the top and bottom of the fleece panel. You can use a sewing machine, hand sew, or even fabric glue.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Draw a pattern of a haunted house on a piece of paper. Think about things like doors that open, porches to decorate, and windows when creating your design.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Also, make sure there is negative space around the haunted house on the fleece panel for things like moons and witches flying on broomsticks.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Using small scissors or a craft knife, she cuts out the details of the haunted house.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Place the haunted house on the fleece panel to make sure everything fits together.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Colorful craft felt can be glued behind windows and added as fun decorative accents.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Glue the haunted house to the fleece panel using fabric glue. Make sure you don't glue interactive doors or windows. Opening and closing is half the fun!

You can cut your own shapes out of small felt to decorate or buy the pre-made versions at the craft store. Die-cut felt shapes are easy to find, and you can complement them with things like moons and teal pumpkins that you can make yourself.

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Lay the rope on top of one end of the wooden dowel to the other. This is how the wool and felt will hang..

Make a busy interactive chart for kids

Jennifer perkins

Decorative accents, like the pom-pom fringe, are optional, but add to the holiday spirit of Halloween.

Keep a small bucket filled with felt shapes nearby to decorate and let the interactive fun begin.

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