How to Make Ghost Squeegee Art

Create spooky ghosts with just paint, paper, and a squeegee! This fun Halloween craft is quick to make, easy for kids, and creates one-of-a-kind ghost artwork every time.

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Yield: ghost squeegee painting

Author: Debbie Chapman

Cost: $1

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

Step 1: Find what you need

Gather your supplies and materials.

Step 2: Paint ghosts with a squeegee

Start with a sheet of black or coloured cardstock. You can also use watercolour paper.
Make an upside-down "U" shape with white acrylic paint. Wherever you put it will be the top of the ghost's head.
Younger kids may struggle with adding paint directly from the bottle. You can also use a paintbrush with a generous amount of paint to add this shape to the paper.
Hold a squeegee above the paint and pull it down towards you. As you do this, push down with a bit of pressure.
Clean the squeegee and repeat, adding 2 or 3 more ghosts to the paper at different heights.
It's okay if the ghosts overlap, and you can also create a wavy ghost by moving the squeegee from side to side as you pull it down.

Step 3: Add colour to the ghosts (optional)

If you want your ghosts to have a bit of colour, add an upside-down "U" of coloured paint on top of where you started your first ghost. Use the squeegee to pull the paint down in the same way.
Repeat with other colours of paint on the rest of the ghosts. If you made a wavy ghost, try to follow the same lines as much as possible.
Then repeat again with another layer of white paint overtop. This makes the colours more muted.
For the ghosts we made without colour we always did 2 layers of white paint, so they stood out more on the paper.

Step 4: Decorate your ghosts and background

Use a black marker or drawing pen to outline the ghosts. Then draw different faces on each of your ghosts.
Decide how you'd like to decorate the top of the paper. Here we used a silver paint marker to make a spider-web, with a black spider hanging from it, dangling onto the head of one of the ghosts.
Then we used a gold paint marker to add "stars" to the sky. You can also use acrylic paint and a dotting tool.
Your ghost squeegee painting is complete!
Have fun making even more Halloween scrape art! You can change the number of ghosts, the size of them, and how you decorate the pictures. (Keep reading below for even more fun ideas!)

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Looking for more squeegee art projects? Here's a few of our favourites:

Marbled Fall Leaves Painting

Cactus Squeegee Painting

Rainbow Squeegee Painting