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  Foam is one of the most versatile crafting materials available, coming in both dense sheets and fluffy three-dimensional shapes. The possibilities are endless when pairing craft foam with the Halloween season. Whether it is a decoration or a part of a costume, children will be able to find a use for foam in their holiday crafting adventures.
  
  

Foam Craft Stick Bat

• Using a few sheets of craft foam in various colors and a dozen craft sticks, children will be able to create a friendly bat complete with a bowtie. Parents can help smaller children by precutting two small triangles, a large triangle, two small circles, a large circle, a bowtie and an elongated oval out of craft foam. While children layer and glue these pieces of foam to form their bat's bodies, parents can cut two of the craft sticks with 45-degree angles for the bends in the bat's wings. Children can then glue together the two wings with five crafts sticks and the two angled joints each. Once the glue on the wings and body is dry, children can attach the wings to the body to complete their friendly bats.
  
  

Creepie Crawlie Spiders

• As the neighborhood porches fill with fake webs, many people choose to use a store-bought plastic spider. With a few chenille pipe cleaners and half of a large foam ball, parents can help their children create a larger-than-life spider to adorn their webs that will both save money and engage their young minds. After parents cut a large foam ball in half, children can paint it black. Once the paint dries, children can poke eight fuzzy pipe cleaner legs into the sides. To bring their spiders to life, children can add a set of google eyes and bend the chenille legs into the signature spider stance.
  
  

Candy Corn Magnet & Pin

• Every Halloween season, the aisles of stores fill with candies of all kinds. Just like Christmas has candy canes and Easter has eggs, Halloween has candy corn. Using three small pieces of orange, yellow and white craft foam, children will be able to create a jumbo piece of candy corn that can become either a pin or a magnet with the proper backings. Parents can help smaller children by cutting an egg shape from orange foam, a white "hat" for the top, and a yellow arch for the bottom stripe. Children can then use cotton swabs to glue their foam pieces together. To complete the look, children can also glue google eyes onto their candy corns to give them a friendly face.