Tuesday, October 1, 2013

13 DIY Halloween Crafts!

Happy October!

Here are 13 awesome DIY Halloween crafts for kids & adults!

1. Paint a pumpkin with chalk board paint to create a fun Halloween countdown! 
Cool idea: Plastic pumpkins painted with chalkboard paint, write Halloween countdown on them and display on a candle stick ...love it :)

 2. Spooky candles! 
- You'll need toilet paper rolls or paper towels rolls for this project.
- Use a hot glue gun to make drippy "wax" on the rolls.
- Once dry, paint with acrylic black or orange paint!
- Get some battery powered tea lights and you'll have some DIY spooky safe candles!

DIY Halloween Candles. http://www.frightkingdom.com/

3. Trace leaves onto colored card stock paper and use them to make a festive wreath!
DIY Fall Paper Leaf Wreath   ☀CQ #paper #printables #digitals #templates #crafts #how-to #DIY

4. Gold or silver leaf pumpkins for beautiful center pieces and fall decorations!
1)spray adhesive, gold or silver leaf, a paintbrush2)use paintbrush to tuck gold leaf into creases of pumpkin3)fall table arrangement


5. Or pick up some gold or silver spray paint for fun metallic pumpkins!

Gold Pumpkins

6. Make cute little ghost lanterns by painting mason jars white and gluing on some googly eyes!

DIY Mason Jar Ghosts

7. Recycle your wine bottles & make them into candy corn decorations!

15+ DIY Fall Decorations

8. Mini Frankenstein!
Paint a tin can green, add screws, glue on some googly eyes and felt for hair!
10 Fun #Halloween Crafts for Kids

9. And how cool is this!?

samhain halloween craft

10. Drape plaster wrap over toilet paper rolls to make mini ghosts!
Must do craft for next year. J can get this plaster gauze.

11. Witches Potions!
- Empty old bottles & spray paint them black.
- Cut out labels from brown paper bags and write down your potions!
- Use wine corks to top off the bottles!

Empty condiment bottles spray painted black to look like witches potions!

12. Get large sheets of black paper & cut out spooky silhouettes for your windows!
next halloween

13. Fairy Jars!

Fairy jars are a big craze!  Any jar you like, cut open a few glow sticks, pour out the gunk into the jar, add very fine glitter and put the lid on and shake it up!  It is gorgeous!

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