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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This sayings, Luna Lovegood quotes and sentiments page presents my favorite quips all from the lovable and very eccentric Harry Potter witch herself. The main thing I love about this character is her fashion sense because it really rocks! You may not know but the very first mention of the Lovegoods is written long before they ever appear into Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is book 4 in the series. This mentions that "the Lovegoods have been there for a week already" and it relates to the Quidditch World Cup which is on at the time. Luna who has a very unfortunate nickname "Loony" appears in the Harry Potter books 5 through to 7. Despite the odd nickname, she became a very strong and inspiring member of Dumbledore's Army.

Alan Rickman was an acting legend. I liked him in many roles over the years but it was his part in Harry Potter that I enjoyed the most most. Severus Snape quotes is packed with my favorite sentiments, sayings and quotations. It was in the books that I met and loved this character for the first time. So I enjoyed reading through them all again and picking out gems of wisdom from The Potions Master who then became the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor and the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry . These quotes have been handily organized for you into the correct book order and sequence. The quotes are taken from the actual  Harry Potter books  by J.K. Rowling rather than the movies. Bookmark the page so that you can enjoy reading through these - Always!

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.

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.