Just Halloween Crafts

Simple altered art techniques make it easy for you to make your own DIY decorative display items for Halloween. A plain wood fairy door can be transformed in lots of fun ways for this Spook-tacular occasion. With this make your own Halloween fairy door craft, you can create a wonderfully bewitching item to keep out on display. I show you how I make my own witch themed Halloween fairy door with plenty of photos for your enjoyment. Be inspired with this fairy door alteration to make your own witch home for Halloween. Or, alternatively, take the process and techniques that are used here to create your own creepy house decoration befitting of October 31st.

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.

Learn how to make skull earrings with the craft of Perler beads. This fun and ever so easy craft is ideal for adults and older children to enjoy. It is the perfect activity that families can enjoy over the colder, winter months. With Halloween just around the corner, why not make yourself some easy skull earrings to wear for the occasion. These make a great costume accessory as well as being a fun craft to make. Use some fused beads like Perler or Hama beads to create some very cute earrings or other items of jewelry such as necklaces that you can wear come October 31st. Freak everyone out with your funky skull earrings.

Preparing a pumpkin ready for carving or decorating can be a bit of a tedious and messy job. It pays to leave plenty of time to complete this before you start transforming it into a Jack O' Lantern. Discover how to hollow out a pumpkin for Halloween with photo instructions on this page. Hollowing out a pumpkin is not all that difficult and can be done without using any special tools at all. Most standard sized pumpkins are easy enough to cut, scoop out and prepare ready for carving into a fun Halloween decoration of your choice. Follow these step by step instructions to get the job done quickly and cleanly.

Ahoy there me landlubbers! You've just spied a great one-stop resource page filled to the brim with themed pirate paper folding and origami projects for you to make and create. X marks the spot right here. My daughter and I just love anything pirate and I'm always looking out for craft projects we can do together. On our travels and adventures, we've found a ton of amazing tutorials that we enjoy and we've shared them here. You'll discover all sorts of gems and treasures including ships, boats, treasure, chests, parrots, weaponry and even a bottle of rum, glug. Have fun me hearties making up all your amazing adventure creations from paper.

Rustle up some eerie looking edibles for your Fall party this year. Here's plenty of chilling and creepy yet easy ideas for decorating some themed Halloween cupcakes in an easy step by step format. Included are ideas for quick and easy to make spider, witch, zombie, eyeball, alien, chocolate orange creepy cakes and more. All these terrifying treats are nice and easy to make but look hauntingly good for any spooktacular party or event.  Even if you can't cook, then cheat. Buy some ready-made chocolate cupcakes and use the ideas on this page to decorate them up in style. No one needs to know that you didn't make them right from scratch. Here's 7 quick and easy Halloween cupcake ideas with instructions on how to decorate.

There are many reasons why you may not want trick or treaters to call this Halloween. It doesn't mean you're a humbug and hate this Fall season occasion. Whatever the reason, here are 2 free no trick or treat signs that are printable. All you need to do is save these free printables to your own device and print them off or take them to a print shop to be printed for you. Included is a grim reaper sign and a Fall season one. They will work for standard letter size, A4 paper or smaller. Perhaps you have a baby who you don't want to get woken up with the doorbell being rung over and over. You may want to put this up to help protect a vulnerable or elderly family member. Or you may just be away from home.

I've never seen any free Princess Bride potion bottle labels before and I wanted some for my Halloween apothecary cabinet display. So I made up 3 fun and free printable designs which I'm sharing with you today. The potion bottle labels are all based on things from The Princess Bride book by William Goldman and the movie. These are perfect for geeks like me who just adore this comic fantasy tale so much. We've got Iocane Powder which is that deadly toxin, Miracle Max's Miracle Resurrection Pill and a True Love Potion all on one printable sheet. If you love The Princess Bride half as much as I do, you'll be wanting these to add a bit of this cult classic into your Halloween decor.

One really fun aspect of the Halloween season is booing your neighbors. Opening your front door to find a special package or basket of treats in October is such a lovely surprise. It gives a real community feeling to a whole neighborhood doesn't it. If you enjoy taking part in this great Fall game, come right in and grab your free printable You've Been Booed poem sign here on this page. This free printable design comes complete with some short instructions so you know exactly what to do. Grab hold of the matching We've Been Booed sign to print out and stick in your front window or on your door this Fall season. This one is totally free and you don't have to sign up to get it.

All wannabe witches really need some decent flying lessons for Halloween to avoid unfortunate accidents. Get your own free, witch Halloween printable poster to hang up for the occasion. You'll find a short tutorial plus the Halloween free flying lessons witch printable freebie poster print on this page. Nothing to sign up for, just download, print and hang up this Fall season. This wall hanging would look good set next to a broomstick prop hung on the wall or placed on a door. It is the ideal design to use for some witch themed decor this Fall season.

Fused, Hama and Halloween Perler bead patterns are just the thing to have fun crafting this Fall season. Included on this page are a range of patterns from very easy and simple motifs to medium sized designs that will keep crafty hands busy for a little while longer. These fused Halloween Perler bead projects can be turned into other items for this Fall themed occasion. I will give ideas on what you can make with each project from jewelry to coasters, hanging decorations and more. Many of these Halloween bead projects are ideal for groups of kids to sit at and make during parties and as part of clubs that they attend. Have fun creating something for October 31st.

One craft my daughter never gets bored with is that of making paper snowflakes for winter and webs for Halloween. She is very happy to sit there and fold and cut, making up her own designs that can be hung up or stuck in the window as quick, easy and inexpensive decorations. Making paper spider webs is a great craft for children who have mastered the art of using child friendly scissors often from around the age of 3 - 5. It is also good practice for those who are learning to use scissors more comfortably. This kids craft can really help to develop those fine motor skills as they grasp and manipulate the scissors and it can also help with adults wanting to teach good safety measures with these instruments too. Depending on the age and skill of the child, supervision may of course be required.

I'll show you how to make some very easy and quick pirate cupcakes for a themed pirate Halloween party or birthday celebration. You'll find out how to decorate either your own homemade or some ready-made cakes that you've bought with a simple, fun and easy treasure theme. These really eye-catching pirate cupcake designs can be made by anyone from young kids with supervision to adults. They look tempting enough to go on show for a birthday or other occasion. You can create these cake designs even if you can't actually cook. The whole focus is on getting the decoration right and not whether or not you're great at baking. So come and see how you can make this popular sweet treat for your budding little swashbucklers. Above all, enjoy it and have fun.

This is a large page featuring a great list of websites where you will find many free images online that you can print and color in. We love Harry Potter and have spent many happy times enjoying coloring the images of popular characters such as Harry the boy wizard himself and Hermione. Coloring is a great activity to do with kids, especially during the long summer hols and vacation time. My daughter really loves the free Harry Potter coloring sheets that I find and print off for her. You can see an example of one that she did on this page. With younger children, coloring can really help to build up that hand and eye coordination while older kids can focus on building up their art skills as well as making fantasy posters for their walls. This is a great resource page for parents, teachers, grandparents and any adults who need to look after children.

In the run up to October 31st it's a great idea for adults to keep children entertained with fun crafts and activities relating to Halloween. Craft foam sheets are inexpensive to buy and come in a whole rainbow of color choices. Halloween foam crafts are great because they are pretty cheap and they are usually pretty easy to do as well. You can buy pre-made kits like the ones shown on this page or you can use the ideas here to make up your own activities instead. You can cut pieces into shapes for children to build up and assemble things like funny faces, costume masks, monsters and also use them to decorate pumpkins and favor or treat bags and boxes. Here's a few suggestions for sets that you can try.