Make handprint spiders with your kindergarten class. Paint one of each child's hands with black paint. Press it onto orange paper so that the fingers are pointing to the right. Make another handprint next to the first with palms overlapping and fingers pointing to the left side of the paper. Draw on the spider's face and glue a piece of yarn or string onto the top of the spider. Other Halloween art ideas include making candy corn stained glass with tissue paper, clear contact paper and construction paper and making a black cat with paper plates and paint.
Take your students on a nature walk to collect different leaves. Bring the leaves back to the classroom and create leaf rubbings. Cover a leaf with paper and gently rub a crayon across the top until the print appears. Students can also use a crayon resist technique to make colorful fall leaves. Have each child will trace and cut out a large leaf shape. Instruct them to color their leaf with fall colors, leaving a few spaces white where they want green to show through. They must press hard when coloring to protect the areas they don't want to turn green. When 75% of their leaf is colored, paint over the leaf with watered-down, green tempera paint. The paint will stick to the white spaces, showing peeks of green through the colors on the leaf.
Teach children the story of Christopher Columbus while developing art skills. Have children color a picture of one of Columbus' ships. Cut it out and glue it to a craft stick. Then, cut a a slit into the middle of a blue piece of butcher paper to create a water line. The students can put their boat through the slit and "sail" it on the ocean. Another way to incorporate Columbus Day into art is through watercolor art. Discuss watercolor techniques with your students, then select a coloring sheet of one of the Columbus' boats on which that children can practice.
Create a mosaic pumpkin by tearing small pieces of orange paper and gluing them onto a pumpkin pattern. Attach a green rectangle stem to the top and hang to dry. After a discussion about mixing colors, give each child a sheet of white paper with a dot of liquid starch in the middle. Have them add a squirt of yellow paint and a squirt of red paint and mix the colors together into a large circle with their fingers to create an orange color. After they dry, cut out each child's pumpkin and put them on display as your classroom's pumpkin patch.