Lollipop Ghosts

What You Need:

• Lollipops
• White tissues
• Black marker
• Orange yarn
• Tinfoil

What You Do:

1. Determine how many lollipops you want to make. Gather enough supplies to create at least one lollipop for each person on your list.
2. Make the first ghost. Have your child layer two white tissues on top of each other.
3. Help your child shift the top tissue so that the corners are not exactly lined up with the tissue below it.
4. Let your child place the top of the lollipop in the center of the tissues.
5. Help your child gather the edges of the tissue upward, fully surrounding the lollipop.
6. Have your child hold the tissues securely at the base of the lollipop.
7. Use orange yarn to tie a small bow around the base of the lollipop.
8. Help your child use a black marker to draw a face on the tissue paper. They can make a scary ghost with an open mouth (imagine the ghost shouting "Boo!") or a friendly ghost with a simple smile.
9. Repeat steps 2–8 for to create a lollipop for each person on your list. Encourage your child to try and make different faces for each ghost!
10. While your child is busy drawing faces, get to work on a few trick "ghost" lollipops! 
11. Mold a small square of tin foil over one of the lollipops.
12. Remove the lollipop carefully, allowing the tin foil to retain the spherical shape.
13. Cover the tin foil with tissue — just as you did do with the real lollipop — and secure with orange yarn.
14. Gently draw a face on the tissue.
15. Combine your child's lollipop ghosts with your trick lollipops. Trick or treat! Will people get a real lollipop or just the ghostly remains of one?
16. Share the lollipops. Make sure you and your child make enough actual lollipop ghosts so that everyone can enjoy one — even if they picked a tin foil one on the first try!