Halloween Kids Crafts- Ghost Bombs

At Easter, every year when I was a kid my family would make eggs filled with confetti and let us fight with them in the front yard. Each of us would get six eggs and the goal was to smash them over each others heads.The family that married into had never heard of this before, so one year I decided to make some confetti eggs for the kids. The kids loved it but it was a huge mess and my sister in law, who hosts our Easter get togethers, was finding confetti for the next year. I haven't brought it up since. When I found these smoke bombs, I wondered, first of all, if they would even work, but also if they would be as frustrating to clean up as my confetti eggs.

Obviously, the first thing you need is your egg shells. I recommend doing these at least a few days in advance so that they can fully dry out, and if you're not a huge egg person you can save them for weeks in an egg carton before you need them. The more you have the better, but try for at least six per kid. The trick to cracking your eggs so you can fill them is to use a butter knife and tap around the top, making a small hole in the top. It does make some dust when you do it like that, so don't crack them over anything that you plan to eat.

I had two 18 egg cartons ready to go when all of the kids came to help. I gave the three oldest kids each a sharpie and told them to draw some ghost faces or whatever else they wanted on our eggs. It really is fun to see what a kid will come up with when you tell them to draw whatever they want. They mostly did faces, but there were also random shapes all over the place, and my daughter decided to write her name on all of the ones she colored.

After letting the kids draw on the eggs, we filled them with cornstarch. We tried to get them all filled about halfway, but the cornstarch wasn't very cooperative and we made a bit of a mess. All that was left was to get ready to close them up. I cut up the streamer paper into small squares, making enough to cover all of the eggs.

Any glue would work to close up the eggs, but I'm recommending either a glue stick or a small container of school glue. I had the leftovers from my slime so we had to pour our glue into cups and use cotton swabs to apply the glue. It worked, but it was much messier than it should have been. The glue goes around the hole at the top of the egg. The squares of streamer paper go over the top of the glue, closing them.

These will last as long as you need them to before you actually use them, but we took them outside as soon as we finished with the glue. The kids divided themselves into two teams, each with an egg carton, and started throwing. The puffs of smoke we're smaller than what I was hoping for, but it left an obvious mark on the kids clothes so they could see who got hit where.

It occurred to me after the fight that some people won't see these and immediately think of throwing them at another person. Because despite our warnings to avoid the face, my daughter did get an egg to the eye and had to sit out for the end of it. No permanent damage, just a little redness, but still, it happened. Other than that the kids seemed to have fun, but I was a little underwhelmed. There was a little puff of smoke maybe knee high. Cleanup, however, was incredibly easy. We just picked up the large pieces of shell and tossed them, and the rest blew away in a few days. I have a cornstarch mark on my driveway but I'm pretty sure it will wash away with the first snow.

Come check out my last Halloween project on Friday, and next week when we start preparing for the rest of the holiday season.