Halloween Face Painting

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Fearsome faces your kids will love

What you'll need:

• Sponge for blending colours or covering large areas.
• Water-based face paint – colours can be mixed together.
• Paintbrush for drawing on fine lines.
• Eyeliner pencil for blacking out teeth.
• Glitter for an extra highlight.
• Watch out for skin allergies – test first!

Pirate

• Paint a black eye patch around the eye and add a strap.
• Use a coarse sponge to dab on some stubble.
• Paint on a big, hairy eyebrow.
• Draw some red scars and highlight them with white paint.
• Scrunch up your face to help you to position the wrinkle lines.
• Colour in a black tooth with an eyeliner pencil.

Witch

• Use a pale purple for the witch-like eye-shadow.
• Rub the same purple on to your cheeks as blusher.
• Paint on black eyebrows and use eyeliner around your eyes.
• Mix black paint with the eyeshadow for the lipstick.
• Add a creepy-crawly or two if you like!

Skull

• Wear a black hair-band to frame the face.
• Sponge on a white base colour.
• Paint big, black eye sockets.
• Blend in some yellow paint to add to the bony look.
• Colour the nose in black paint, note the shape.
• Draw some black cracks around the face.
• Create a toothy mouth with thin, black lines.

Black Cat

• Colour around the eyes using white paint.
• Use a sponge to dab white paint around the mouth and chin.
• Paint the nose and bottom lip pink.
• Colour black around the white part of the eyes.
• Brush black strokes around the mouth and all over the rest of the face.
• Finish the face with some strokes of silver glitter.

Scaly Monster

• Start by sponging some yellow paint in the centre of the face.
• Dab green around the yellow and spread it over the hairline.
• Use red for the eyeshadow and to flare the nostrils.
• Draw on the scales, the lips, and around the eyes with black paint.
• Paint on some white fang shapes and highlight them in black.

Vampire

• Slick back your hair using lots of hair gel
• Dab on white paint with a sponge.
• Rub some grey around the eyes for a sunken look.
• Dab some grey along the cheekbones to narrow the face.
• Draw a hairline and paint it with black paint.
• Paint grey around the eye sockets and add some red lines.
• Colour the lips and draw in some fangs dripping with red blood!

Excerpted from The Best Craft Book Ever copyright 2009 Jane Bull / DK Publishing

• trudie | October 31, 2009 at 11:19 am - §

  nice

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