The only bad Halloween craft project is the Halloween craft project that takes too long. You know the ones. The craft projects that have so many steps that you’ve lost the attention of your kids before step 2. Give these easy Halloween craft ideas a try. They’re easy and fast to create; they’re fun, and the end results are spooky enough to scare even a cynical adult.
Antenna Characters
Get your car ready for Halloween with spooky antenna decor. These adorable characters look great at the top of your automobile antenna. Hey, if your house is dressed up for Halloween, why shouldn’t your car? With various Halloween-themed colors of flat fun foam (orange, black, white, green), draw a light outline of a pumpkin, ghost, spider or Frankenstein head, approximately 4-inches tall and 3-inches wide. Cut out the shapes and with a single hole punch, punch two holes in each shape, one approximately one inch from the top of the shape and another hole approximately one inch from the bottom of the shape.
With glitter glue or permanent markers, decorate the shape with facial features, an outline or anything you’d like. Allow to dry thoroughly. Once dried, you can attach to your automobile antenna by placing the antenna through the bottom hole from the back of the shape to the front. Then place the antenna through the top hole, front to back. The Antenna Character should be secure and should withstand normal driving conditions.
Halloween Kiddie Mosaics
Mosaic art using tiles is very popular nowadays. Kids can duplicate this popular craft using construction paper instead of tiles or glass. Prior to gathering the children around the table, cut small squares of various colors of paper, orange, red, blue, yellow, white, black, green, etc. On a piece of heavy stock, white paper, draw the outline of a pumpkin, Frankenstein or other Halloween character. With a small dab of all-purpose glue on the back of each square, kids can mosaic their way to a uniquely creative masterpiece that can be framed and hung on the wall for many Halloween seasons to come.
Pumpkin Painting
In less than one hour, you and your child can create the most adorable pumpkin craft ready to proudly display in your home. Pumpkin Painting is the perfect activity for little goblins who aren’t old enough to handle the jack-o-lantern carving duties.
Paint Silly Faces of Pumpkins
With simple supplies like acrylic paints, markers, newspaper and sealer, kids can paint whimsical, silly faces on their pumpkins. Or they can paint their favorite cartoon character, Halloween motif or harvest design. Painted pumpkins do not rot near as quickly as carved pumpkins so it is much more economical to paint pumpkins rather than carving them and it’s also much safer and more hands-on for toddlers since there is no knife involved.
Oct 28, 2009 | Holidays, crafts
What do you know about scrapbooking journaling?
Basically, this is when you document your memories in words on your scrapbook page layouts in more than just a phrase, quote or title. These words may explain the photo or memento on the page or may just be used to express your feelings about it.Including scrapbooking journaling isn’t the same as using phrases or basic titles, and knowing how it is different will help you design an attractive and effective page as well.
To begin with, keep in mind that scrapbooking journaling involves a lot of words, and you will need to use a font that can be read easily. Often titles and phrases are added to scrapbooks using a fancy font possible made with cricut design studio software bonus. Because they are usually just a word or two, this is okay. But when adding in an entire paragraph or more, you want to use something that is more easily read.Usually, the contrast between a title’s fancy font and your scrapbooking journaling’s simpler block font is acceptable and can even add more visual interest to your scrapbook layout.
Next, you should be careful about the amount of space you will need for scrapbooking journaling, and also about how many additional page elements you plan to include on your layout.You can easily underestimate the amount of space you need for your journaling and just how busy it might make your layout.One tip is to first write out your scrapbooking journaling on a scrap piece of cardstock and try it on your layout before adhering it to the page so you can check to see how much room you are going to need.You then can add or remove other page elements if your layout seems a bit busy near the journaling.If you do this with your scrapbook journaling you will also be able to make adjustments to the number of words you use, how big or small your font will be, and so on.You may even recognize that it is out of place and that you need to edit your journaling or remove it all together. Don’t forget to look for more scrapbooking albums .
Your scrapbooking journaling is like any other embellishment. You need to work with it before making final decisions, so using a separate piece of paper before you adhere anything is always recommended, as is seeing how it fits with all other elements on a page. Of course you can also use your computer to do your journaling and you don’t even need digital scrapbooking class. Just type our your journaling in any font you like, print it and adhere it to your layout. If you follow these tips, you will find that scrapbooking journaling can enhance your page layouts and make you pages really come alive.
Oct 16, 2009 | Scrapbook, crafts
Project Materials and More Craft Ideas
Little hands love to spend time making things, more than just a mess in the house. In fact, if your children love crafts, you may be wondering how to keep them craft happy throughout the year.
What types of supplies do you need? That’s entirely up to you. You could get finger paints, clay, cotton balls, crayons, scissors, glue, glue sticks, markers, and colored pencils. You may also want to include various types of paper, stickers, glitter, or whatever supplies you need for a particular craft.
Search in magazines or online to find instructions for different crafts as well as a list of supplies your child will need. In fact, the internet is a wealth of information where you can find nearly any craft you or your children might like.
A few websites to check out for project materials
1. KraftyKids.com
2. Mr. Art
3. Fabric.com Coupon Corner
Crafts are for ANY age
Our most vivid childhood memories consist of the times when we created pretty things with our families. Your kids can enjoy the same privilege and create family memories to last a lifetime. Twenty years down the road and they will be recounting tales of painting a doghouse or garden rocks and sharing the memories with their own kids.
Childhood is the time to make kids more aware of family. The truth is, memories are priceless things that your kids will carry for the rest of their lives.
In fact, we can even say that family memories are what make a person who he is.
It doesn’t matter what age your children are, there are crafts that toddlers can enjoy as well as teenagers and every age in between. Of course, for some crafts you’ll want to stick close by to supervise, but many crafts can be done without adult supervision. Be sure to buy safety scissors and other crafts materials that are safe for younger children.
Sep 29, 2009 | crafts, family traditions
