Countdown to Halloween Paper Chains

Early in October we made paper chains out of orange and black construction paper as a Family Home Evening activity. I pulled out some scrapbooking paper and we cut out designs to decorate paper plates... Each of the kids had a lot of fun with the plates! Then we attached the chains to the plates and hung them up above our breakfast nook to rip off one chain per day. Eventually I had to move them over to our back door because they were too high up to be reached. The kids really enjoyed watching the chains disappear, even though it took Charlie about half of the month to learn how to gently tear only one chain each day.


On Halloween we were down to just one chain left, and both of the kids were really excited! We are planning to do paper chains for Christmas as well!