Just Halloween Crafts

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.

Part of the fun with the Halloween season is to be able to create your own fun outfits and costumes to wear. With the aid of some cool kits, kids can make up and design their own masks using a variety of crafting techniques and methods. Mask making can often be good as an individual activity for older children and also when used as part of a kids group activity. This craft can make a great Fall season boredom buster as a family make and craft day too.  These simple pieces of face wear can be very effective at transforming a child into the character they want to be and to dress up as. Here are some great ideas for sets that are readily available to buy that will suit both younger and older artistic and creative children.

Need to make a quick hood for a cloak or cape? Here's my DIY tutorial outlining how I made one when I was asked to make a hooded cloak in a hurry. The hardest part of making the cloak was constructing the hood for it and then attaching it onto the cape once done. This post will walk you through how to make a quick DIY costume hood without a pattern and then it will lead on to another article which will explain how you can sew it on to the cape.  It may be that you already have a plain cape like a black one which is often used at Halloween and you want to know how to make a hooded section for it. So this post with photos will explain what you need to do.

My daughter needed a cloak for a school event and rather than go out and buy one I decided to make my own. I had a large piece of old green and gold curtain fabric that was ideal to use for this project. Without having any pattern to follow, making the cloak all came down to measurements and guesswork but we got there in the end. Follow my post so you can see how to sew a cloak without having a pattern too. This post explains how I made the hooded cloak from start to finish. Hopefully you will find this useful if you need to make up a DIY one in a hurry yourself. I worked out how it was done so you don't have to.

So you've rustled up a quick hood for a costume (tutorial provided in this post if needs be) and now you may be wondering how on earth you sew it to a cape to make a hooded cloak. This photo tutorial gives you a good guide on how to attach a hood onto a cape or cloak which has no fancy extras such as lining. You'll see how I did it with photos provided. Not everyone wants to go to the time, bother and extra fabric expense to line a costume or dress up cloak when it may only be worn a few times for Halloween. I certainly didn't. Here's how it is done.

We already made a simple elasticated mask for this character which is ideal as a last minute Halloween craft because it's so quick and easy. This tutorial is to make a Maleficent horned headband which takes a little longer to make but looks better. This looks especially good with long dark hair, because it is easy to slip on and off and the headband looks almost invisible. This means the curved horns stand out even more. See how to make this costume headband hair accessory with this step by step photo tutorial and get the free template to print off too.

There are various ways of making horns to dress up as the character Maleficent. This is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make your own DIY headpiece from paper or card. This easy Maleficent horn mask is perfect for kids who want to wear a costume for Halloween and it's great as a last minute make that you can do since I also have the free template for you to print out here on JustHalloweenCrafts as well. Come and see how to make up this easy elasticated mask headpiece right now. It is very quick and easy to make with the free printable horns design. You can make this in minutes for a fast costume accessory.

My little girl wanted to dress up as the evil fairy witch, Maleficent, from Disney's latest Sleeping Beauty movie. I wasn't going to spend a small fortune buying a headpiece when it's something that can be made pretty easily. I drew up an outline for a pair of curved horns and am sharing them in a free printable Maleficent horn template for other parents out there to save and print off as well. You can even print these off just a little larger and use it to make an adult costume accessory as well. As well as the free printable you get on this page, I've also written a couple of tutorials on using this design to make up some easy Halloween costume accessories. Grab your printable and get the tutorials and how to info as well while you're here.

No longer seen as an old fashioned craft, pom poms are very much back in vogue and are perfect for so many crafts and decorations. Pom poms are now also made from fabric and tulle netting which is pretty modern and cutting edge. Wands that you want to make for kid's dressing up and for Halloween costume accessories look especially good topped off with tulle netting or satin fabric pom poms. Tulle is fun but satin fabric versions have a gorgeous silky sheen and a really raggedy shabby chic style which works brilliantly for a witch wand.  Today I'm making one in purple and black witch themed colors. You can change the styling up to make different versions for fairies, princesses, wizards and many other magical beings. It's quick, fun and easy which is just the kind of craft I like best of all!

This detailed photo tutorial is going to show you how to make your own Disney villain inspired bracelet with a real Maleficent evil fairy theme from Sleeping Beauty. The fun rubber band bracelet design combines two cool crafts that both adults and kids can enjoy by using Rainbow Loom bands and fused Perler or Hama Beads. The colored rubber bands make up really a nice stretchy wrist bracelet to wear and the beads are used to create a large charm that resembles the evil Queen Maleficent's face. Or you can also make a longer pattern with the bands to make up a necklace or something else like a keychain instead. This is a great craft opportunity for both adults and children to work together on a project with something that is fun to make and fairly easy. My daughter and I really had fun making this and she loved wearing it when she dressed up as this character for Halloween. Enjoy the tutorial.

Wands are super fun projects that you can easily make yourself and the bonus is that you can customize them to really coordinate with a little girl's princess costume or outfit for dress up play and Halloween. This step by step tutorial shows you how to make a yarn wrapped princess wand which I think is better than the standard ribbon wrapped ones we always tend to see and it's easier to neatly wrap the yarn around the wood too. To make a really gorgeous looking design, I used some variegated yarn which changes color from raspberry pink to candy to pale and then cream. It really gives a beautiful effect to use a yarn which changes color or why not try a solid shade that has flecks of glitter or sparkle in.

Pumpkins make a really cute motif for the Fall season. You can turn this widely recognized design into a really cute little pumpkin trick or treat bag that kids can carry around this Halloween. This is an easy and inexpensive sewing project made using craft felt and you can either sew it by hand or use a sewing machine which is quicker and makes stronger seams to hold all the candy or loot. If you're new to sewing and wondering whether you will be able to make a bag - you can. This is a simple, beginner project so more experienced sewers will find it a breeze. You can make this pattern as small or large as you like.