Just Halloween Crafts

Mason jar Halloween lanterns are one of the easiest ways to add a warm, spooky glow to a porch, mantel or party table. A few clean glass jars, some paint or tissue paper and a battery tea light are all it takes to turn kitchen recycling into a row of grinning jack-o'-lanterns, wrapped mummies or glowing stained glass luminaries. This tutorial walks you through one basic method step by step, then shows you five different designs you can make with the same technique. The projects suit adults and older children, and younger kids can join in with the decorating once the jars are prepared.

Carving a jack-o'-lantern is a Halloween tradition, but it is not the only way to decorate a pumpkin. No-carve pumpkin decorating ideas are perfect for young children who are too little to handle knives, for anyone who wants their pumpkins to last longer, and for crafters who simply enjoy painting and embellishing more than scooping. An uncut pumpkin stays fresh far longer than a carved one because the skin is still sealed. That means you can decorate early in October and still have a great display on the 31st. Below you will find how to choose and prepare your pumpkins, ten creative no-carve ideas, and tips for keeping your designs looking good all month.

Coffee filter ghosts are a classic Halloween craft for a good reason: they cost almost nothing, they take only minutes, and children of nearly every age can make them. With a few round paper filters, some cotton wool and a black marker, you can create a whole crowd of friendly little spooks to hang in windows, string into a garland or float above a party table. This guide shows you how to make a basic coffee filter ghost step by step and then shares several ways to take the idea further, from glowing ghosts to colorful watercolor spirits.

Empty toilet paper rolls are one of the most useful free craft supplies in the house. With a little paint, paper and imagination, a plain cardboard tube can become a bat, a mummy, a black cat or a goofy monster. Toilet paper roll Halloween crafts are ideal for rainy October afternoons, classroom activities and party tables, and they are a fun way to show children how everyday recycling can be turned into something new. Below you will find how to prepare your tubes, eight easy cardboard tube projects and some tips for getting the best results with children of different ages.

Salt dough is a wonderful, inexpensive craft material that most families can make from ingredients already in the kitchen cupboard. Rolled out, cut into pumpkins, bats and ghosts, baked hard and painted, it turns into charming salt dough Halloween ornaments you can hang on a Halloween tree, string into a garland or keep as handmade keepsakes for years. This guide covers a simple salt dough recipe, how to shape and dry your ornaments, how to paint and seal them so they last, and plenty of spooky design ideas.

A Halloween craft party is a brilliant alternative, or addition, to trick or treating. Children get to be creative, everyone goes home with something they made, and you avoid the sugar overload of a traditional party. Whether you are planning a small get-together for a few friends or a busy afternoon for a whole class, a little preparation makes all the difference. This guide covers everything you need to plan and host a Halloween craft party for kids: guest numbers, choosing crafts, setting up stations, a sample schedule, snacks, safety and take-home favors.

Spiders are always a popular theme for Halloween. You can make a quick and easy spider web banner using a cutting die, spiderweb doilies, or even by making paper webs by hand. These spooky cobweb designs are easy to hang thanks to their natural pattern holes. Trick or Treat! Enjoy learning how to make a spider web banner which looks very effective as part of your Halloween decorations. Once you have the webs, which can easily be made from die cuts and even doilies, add a fun phrase across the middles using alphabet dies or stickers. Many kids enjoy making paper spiderwebs as a Halloween paper craft. If they can make at least 3 then you'll have enough to spell out BOO to make a small but cute spiderweb garland.

Chocolate orange cupcakes are sweet and zesty at the same time. They have a classic flavour combination with the chocolate cupcake base and delicious citrus orange buttercream frosting. These chocolate orange cupcakes are the perfect treat for Halloween and Thanksgiving with their beautiful Fall and autumnal colors. It is a taste that is hard to beat with the melt-in-the-mouth chocolate cake and smooth yet tangy frosting. A divine pairing of flavors. Discover how you can bake these delicious chocolate cupcakes with orange buttercream frosting for Fall, Halloween or anytime you want to. For added indulgence, add a couple of slices of Terry's Chocolate Orange on top.

See how you can make a Perler bead spider web pattern using fused beads. The finished craft is perfect for hanging up as Halloween decor and also to use as unique toppers for Halloween cupcakes too. Kids and adults can have a ton of fun with Halloween crafting by making some fun, spooky spider webs from fused beads such as Perler and Hama. This how to page has step by step images to show how you can easily make this creepy cobweb pattern. Once the spider web is complete, you can hang them up as fun decor for the home. They make ideal window or Halloween tree ornaments with an addition of a loop of string or ribbon. Spook any guests coming to trick or treat with these hanging in the front porch.

Discover how you can make some deliciously hairy Hobbit feet cookies for Halloween. Novelty vanilla sugar cookies with chocolate hair are a fun project for Lord of the Rings fans to bake and eat. Hobbit feet cookies, which luckily have a delicious fragrance of chocolate and vanilla instead of feet, are a really fun baking project. Easy to do, make some foot shaped vanilla biscuits or cookies and add on some melted chocolate icing. Using a foot shaped cookie cutter makes this nice and simple. You'll find step-by-step photos on this page which show you exactly how to make some feet that you'd expect to see on Bilbo or Frodo Baggins. Perfect little sweet treats for kids birthday parties, Hobbit themed Halloween events and more.

Here's some ghoulishly good zombie cookies recipe for Halloween. This easy recipe features gruesome zombie feet with a marbled green and yellow fondant "skin" which is covered in festering sores. Eat the cookie body parts before the zombies come and feast on you. Zombie cookie feet are a ghastly but very easy to make sweet treat for Halloween and zombie themed parties. The gross looking zombie feet cookies should really get your guests spooked. These are quick and easy to make using a foot shaped cookie cutter. Luckily the feet taste a whole lot nicer than they look because they're vanilla sugar cookies topped with sweet fondant icing. They're a really fun project for which you use ready to roll icing. Assembling the gruesome feet is an easy and fun task.

Let me show you step by step how to make a pumpkin fairy house craft for Halloween. Carving a cute fairytale home from a pumpkin is quite easy to do and looks so effective for a fantasy theme. This year I wanted a fantasy theme for my pumpkin decoration so I carved and decorated a design that any one into Harry Potter, Hobbits and Lord of the Rings or any other fantasy is sure to love. There are loads of photographs to take you through how I made this design from hollowing the pumpkin out to carving it and decorating. Included are lots of tips on getting the complete fantasy look that was wanted too.