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Three D Haunted House craft is easy and fun for all kids, all ages.  You can provide all cut outs for younger kids or those who need more help and encourage older kids to cut out their own shapes and add their own creative touches.

You will need some black railroad board or heavy construction paper or poster board for your basic house, and some good Halloween colors for windows, doors, moon, pumpkins etc as well as a black marker, glue, and scissors.   Optional glitter.

You can make house any size and any sort of funky roof design you like.  For balance, it is best to have 2 tall roof sides and then 2 shorter straight sides (as shown in picture).  You can have kids help out with designing the house.  It will be crooked so no need to try and make a perfect design.  The main idea is that you will need 4 sides of appx same width (ours is 4").  You will measure and score the sides before kids glue on their decorations so they won't glue things over the seams as the seams will be your fold lines when assembling the house.  I like to make patterns out of newspaper because I like to have a pattern and newspaper has helpful lines.  Look over the pictures below to see how our pattern was done.

After cutting out the house, cut out lots of Halloween shapes like pumpkins, bats, windows, doors, ghosts, a big crooked tree, a moon, a black cat, and anything else you can think of.  Kids will glue the items on the house while it is flat, leaving the seam lines free.  They can add details with marker and then, if you choose, some glitter here and there.  After glue is dry, house can be folded and glued together along the tab.