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.

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.

Organizing your photos can also be very sentimental. You will see the photos of better times and the memories will just come to you. One downside to building a scrapbook is feeling that nostalgia, and being extremely aware that the events have all happened in the PAST. Nonetheless, your task of organizing your family photos for your scrapbook is a fitting tribute to those memories, and should not be considered a chore.

Here are some steps to effectively and rapidly organize your family photos

1. First, designate an are inside your house for your project. The space must be free of clutter initially, to allow you to move the photos around as you sort through them.

2. Next, put the photos that are promising (in terms of inclusion in the scrapbook), and put away those that are damaged. Polaroid pictures should be piled separately because they leak and may damage the others permanently.

3. Make copies of the photos you chose. These will allow you to be creative and not worry about making mistakes.

4. Start arranging the photos again, this time in chronological order, by events, by the people in the photos or by holidays.

Some more Helpful Tips

If you’re compiling photos for a wedding scrapbook, you should include the photos of the couple while growing up.

If it’s a family tree, organize according to the side of the family the photos were from.