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.

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.

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.

Making a cardboard frame, base or form for your own handmade DIY wreath craft project may sound pretty simple but there are a number of things that you may want to consider. Learn all you need to know about how to make a cardboard wreath form or frame. I'll show you how to make a really large, circular frame even when you don't have anything large and round that you can draw around.  I'll also show you how to make a cardboard wreath form that is thick enough when you only have some thin card to start with. Come and see how it is done.

Making your own wreaths for occasions such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fall, birthdays and other events and themes is really easy once you understand how it is that you can tie or attach the tulle netting fabric to your base or frame. No matter which style of base you have for your handmade wreath - the basic principle of tying your tulle strips on remains exactly the same. You’ll learn how this is done with these step by step photos below. Your base can be as simple and inexpensive as a circle frame cut from a thick piece of cardboard (packaging such as Amazon boxes make a nice, sturdy choice) or they might be a wire frame that you’ve made yourself or bought ready-made or even a styrofoam one.

A witch's spell book prop makes a great decoration for a large display unit and I wanted one. I didn't care to spend too much time making this Halloween prop because I've got lots of other decorations to work on too. I came up with this quick witch spell book tutorial which doesn't take hours of your time to make and looks simply amazing. You just need to allow some drying time for thick coats of paint and glitter.   Grab yourself a hard cover notebook or unwanted reading book that you can use to turn into a feature Halloween piece. Your completed book will sit on a display shelf, book case, mantel or a stand where it can be admired and appreciated by all your guests.

Now yarn pom poms are super easy and quick to make with the introduction of lots of modern makers and gizmos, it means you can quickly create some easy DIY hanging bat decorations for Halloween. These Bat pom poms can be hung down a wall, from a shelf, across a door or opening or in a porch even. They make rather cute looking and cuddly yarn pets for the spook time season. Come see how to make these by reading on. These are simple to make and I've made it even easier by providing my template for the wings as a free printable so you don't need to draw some yourself. Kids can have fun making these using a child friendly alternative to a glue gun or just by getting adults to do all the sticking instead.

Have a hoot making a cute looking owl design for Halloween which is topped off with a pointy witch hat with buckle. This pattern has been made using fused Perler beads although you can use other brands such as Hama. These Perler Bead witch owl designs have been made for decorations to place around the home during October. I'll probably add some twine or cord to the back for hanging these up as door or wall decor. You could prop these up on a shelf, have them peeking out a window or use them to make large coasters for the occasion. I'll be happy to hear what you use them for in the comments section.

Love butterfly crafts? Why not make some fun no-sew hanging butterflies as decorations for Halloween. Make one larger statement piece or make lots in smaller sizes to dot around a room. I've made this hanging butterfly in a bright pumpkin orange felt fabric overlapped onto dark gray with a black body section. Also try combinations with purple and green wings for colors that work well with this occasion. This makes for a fun hanging decoration that can be suspended from a ceiling or archway as if in flight or hung flat down a wall. They also make great motifs too for other craft projects. 

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.