Wizard Crafts and Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.