Are you a room parent at your child’s school? I am and it is loads of fun. But, sometimes its hard to find age appropriate game, crafts and non candy prizes to make your party really great. In steps, Oriental Trading. Whether your party is religious, wild and crazy or just plain fun they have the party stuff for you! This year for Halloween my kids classes are going to flip at the fun I am bringing to the party! Check them out!
Astrid Costume, How to train a Dragon
Costumes are one of my favorite things to make. Especially if I get to be creative when I do it. My little miss always has some fun ideas for costumes. Last year she chose Astrid, from How to train your Dragon. I was super excited. Astrid is Sassy, Strong and smart. Just what I want my daughter to be! This is a great costume if you have a daughter and a son to make your dragon!
Disney Descendants Mal Coronation Dress
This little girl has my whole heart. She loves ruffles, crafting, sewing, playing with bugs and digging inthe dirt. SO when she said she wanted to be Mal from Disney’s Decendants for Halloween I rolled my eyes. Up until now she has let me pick her costumes. Some of my favorites are Rainbow Brite, Astrid from How to train your Dragon and Little Bo peep. But this year was a little different.
Orion Constellation Costume
A while back my son had to do a project in school about outer space. He had to dress up or create a project about space. Now my boys have always loved learning about space and space travel so this project was right up our alley. Instead of doing a project, we decided to do a costume. I came up with this super easy Orion constellation costume.
Paw Patrol Zuma Halloween Costume
I know Halloween is over but this Mom just didn’t get time to blog about it. So here we are 1 week later and just getting costumes on the blog. My preschooler is in love with the Paw Patrol, especially Zuma.
He along with every other 4 year old.
He is obsessed.
The action figures have a permanent place on the front living room coffee table. He and his sister play for hours together. So when he asked to be Zuma, his favorite rescue pup, From Nick Jr.’s Paw Patrol I said let’s do it. [Read more…]
DIY Trick Or Treat Bags
This year I wanted some thing a little different for my kids Trick or Treat bag. I thought it would be fun for the kids to see how much candy they had with out opening the bag. So I came up with these.
You can make them in any Halloween shape you want. Bats, Pumpkins, Frankenstein, Monster or a Ghost. Today I am going to show you how to make a Bat.
Here is what you need:
1/2 yard Black Fabric
2 sheets black felt
Black thread
Clear vinyl plastic
White & black vinyl
(I buy my vinyl from Vinyl Expressions. it is inexpensive and you can buy as much or as little as you would like. See the link on my side bar)
Cut your fabric the size you want your bag, I cut mine 12×24. Fold in half to make 12×12. M:ake the folded edge the top of your bag.
Cut your clear vinyl to be 12×12.
Slide the wings in between your fabric layer. Pin into place. Stitch down both sides and the bottom.
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Here’s what you will need if you want to make them with your kids too:
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Itsy Bitsy Spider Door Decor
This year for Halloween I wanted a little something different for my front door. There are some many cute wreaths out there. I love them all. I was wanting something a little more non traditional. I found my idea at the Dollar store.
Here is what you need:
2 googly eyes
spool 3/8 inch black ribbon
Foam pumpkin
Spider web
Hot Glue
Dowel or skewer
Start by wrapping your ribbon on to a skewer or dowel like in this post: Here {Spider Hair Clips}
After baking your ribbon cut into 8 equal parts.
Take a skewer and punch a hole into the pumpkin. Use the skewer to push the ribbon inside. Use a bit of hot glue to secure the ribbon into place.
Your spider is ready to hang.
Add your Spider web and your new spider has a home!
I added mine to my front door. Not quite your traditional door decor. But sometimes I am not so traditional!
Don’t forget the Masquerade Ball is up and going. Stop by and link up your favorite Handmade Halloween Costumes. Some serious prizes are up for grabs. Will one go to you???
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Painted Halloween Sign {using a charcoal transfer method!}
supplies:
unfinished wooden plaque
mod podge
paint brush
charcoal pencil
decorative paper (I used a chevron treat bag because I liked the pattern!)
an image to trace (I used this bat and added words. But, you could use any image you can print on plain printer paper!)
paint (I used black acrylic)
After gathering supplies, cut your paper to fit the plaque’s face. Attach the decorative paper to the wood by painting mod podge under and on top of the paper. After the mod podge dries, take a cloth or paper towel and “paint” the plaque’s sides with black paint. You could do this with a brush, if you’d rather. I wanted a rough, distressed look, so I dry-rubbed the paint on the sides with my paper towel, letting some come over onto the paper.
To transfer your image onto your dry plaque, rub charcoal over the entire backside of your image. Place the image, charcoal side down, onto your plaque. Take a pen, pencil or sharp object and trace around the entire image. For the letters, trace around the edges. When you lift the paper, the design will be outlined in charcoal. So cool!
After your design is traced onto your plaque, take a small paintbrush and paint inside the lines. After my plaque was done, I painted on small, flying bats to add a bit more.
Wah-la! You have a hand-painted Halloween Sign! Now that you know this technique, you can use it for all KINDS of things! Get creative!