Just Halloween Crafts

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to make up a few DIY potion bottles or even an apothecary cabinet for Halloween, here's a free printable sheet of Halloween potion bottle labels that you can use. These are all square shaped designs and you can choose to cut around the black border which is nice and easy. Alternatively cut the potion bottle labels down further and just snip out the text and the images separately. The black print is over the top of a parchment style antiqued background which helps to age them somewhat. Enjoy the freebie and use it for your seasonal Fall crafts.

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.

To make my bookcase look a little more authentic for the upcoming season, I wanted to create an illusion of having some witch or wizard themed books instead of the regular ones on gardening and nature. You can get printable book covers but I only needed something to quickly cover the spines of a selection of books which are out on show. Included are some free, printable Halloween book spines for you to use for your own decorations this Fall season. I came up with a set of 10 fun themed titles which you can print off and use for your own decorations. This post contains the freebies for printing as well as a quick how to on getting the look.

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.

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.

A while back, I did a craft showing you how to make some round paper fan decorations which you can hang from a ceiling or on the wall. Today we're taking that concept a bit further and focusing on a much more grown-up version of that decoration. Enjoy these skull and eyeball paper fan designs which make great hanging and wall decorations for Halloween. There's also a spider and web one too, not shown in the photo, which you can make with the free printable at the end of this post. These Halloween paper fans are enhanced by the free design motifs that you can print off and use in the center of each decoration. Choose from a spiderweb, some eerie eyeballs to watch your guests everywhere they go and a menacing skull.

Making round paper fans is an easy craft that both kids and adults can do to make hanging decorations from small sizes up to large depending on the sheet sizes you use for construction. This easy DIY paper fan craft can be used for Fall and Halloween as decor to hang on doors, mantels, walls and even from the ceiling. I like to use them as larger statement pieces. They look complicated to make when in fact these are easy peasy providing you know how to make accordion or concertina folds.  If you don't know how to make this zig zag style of valleys and mountains in sheets of paper, you'll find a gazillion tutorials on YouTube if you look for how to accordion or concertina fold. Most kids learn how to do this at school or in simple crafting activities.

This is a quick and easy craft to make a simple hanging decoration or garland using tissue paper. It's so quick and easy that kids can learn to make this too. They will need to know how to fold concertina or accordion style, how to cut with scissors and how to tie a double knot. Many age 7+ children will have some or all of the skills to create this easy Halloween tissue paper garland. We choose to make this using black and orange tissue paper for the Fall season.  Black and a nice pumpkin orange fit with our theme well but you may want to choose ghostly white, grays, purples, monster greens, blood reds or other colors that work with your own choice of decorations around the home.

This DIY BOO banner in card and paper is quick and easy to make up for your Halloween decorations because it only has 3 pennant flag sections, one for each of the letters used. I made this banner in grays and blacks with just a hint of pumpkin orange and white for the letters to make them really pop out as you can see from the photo. If you don't have time to stretch to making a large garland, banner or section of bunting, this smaller design is ideal for you to make. The triangular flag sections come from a free printable template which is one that I use for a number of crafts and you can print out large lettering from a computer, draw them out yourself, use a stencil or even buy some extra large chipboard letters.

Spider webs and cobwebs make wonderfully creepy and fun decorations that you can use for Halloween. This ever so easy spiderweb paper craft uses the exact same paper folding and cutting technique which is often used when making those pretty paper snowflakes. Laminating the design makes it perfect for displaying around your home and in your windows this October. We finished our designs off by adding on a plastic toy spider and a fly. It's a creepy craft that is perfect for making with large groups of kids since all you really need is paper and scissors. You can stick the webs onto card or a nice contrasting colored paper. Come and see how it's done.

This post will show you how you can easily rustle up some very creepy and realistic looking silhouettes of black Crows and birds to make spooky decorations for Halloween. One very easy and effective way to create a chilling ambiance and scene for the spook time season is to create your own large black bird decorations cut from paper. Since this is so quick and easy, it works very well as a last minute craft too. This craft which features free stencils and templates of Ravens and Crows for you to printout and use as templates will show you how you can quickly make up your own very simple and inexpensive wall decor in order to really freak out your guests out this Fall season.