Halloween Kids Kraft

It's that time (soon) again!  I love Halloween!

And I love volunteering to help with class holiday parties at my girls' school.

Last year for my 1st grader's Halloween party we made these:

Cute tissue paper art! 

I was thinking of tissue paper art 'old school style' where a small square-ish piece of tissue paper is wrapped around the eraser end of a pencil and then glued down, but my friend told me about how you can just 'crinkle' the tissue and then adhere. And it works great!

Bring one already completed to show the kids
what they will be creating! 

1. Cut out several (one for each child) black foam board pieces with an x acto knife and use a hole punch to make a hole for the yarn-loop tie. 

2. Draw a pumpkin shape with a stem on card stock/paper, but only trace the pumpkin shape (not stem) onto the black foam board with a white crayon. 

3. Cut lots and lots of orange tissue paper as well as a good amount of   black tissue paper in small pieces .

4. Gather small flat or semi-flat pieces of bark to glue on as the stem.

5. Remember to have the children write their names on the back with white crayon before beginning the glueing of crinkled paper and bark.

And here is my cute daughter's project! Yeah... looks like she started to write her name on front... haha :)

Linking to these Parties: The Dedicated House, Sugar and Dots, A Little Birdie Told Me, Ducks 'n a Row, The 36th Avenue, Glamorous Affordable Life, Made in a Day, Gingerly Made, Craftberry Bush, Live, Laugh, Rowe, Tatertots and Jello, Homecoming, Love Grows Wild, The Best Blog Recipes, Made in a Day

~3~ Halloween Wreaths

Halloween is my favorite holiday ~ haha ~can you tell :)

I remember a home that I would drive by I believe on my way to my daughter's preschool. On the front door was just a simple straw wreath ( I think it was) and there would be just one item hanging from the center. I loved the simplicity of it and how one could change out the center to coincide with whatever holiday or season. 

Here is my version: just a grapevine wreath, an orange tulle bow and a fabulous black felt spider I found at Hobby Lobby last year hanging in the center :) This wreath lives on my front door.

The above wreath is another simple wreath using the same spider idea (a plastic spider ring with the 'ring' removed :) and with Halloween's traditional colors in tulle. I have one of these hanging on my front entry closet door and one on my pantry door. 

And finally this little wreath was inspired from a craft from Family Fun. For mine, however, I bought this fun furry-type yarn and wrapped it around the plastic carton ring & tied a grosgrain ribbon. This year, I have a piece of orange embroidery thread to help hang it. It is on kitchen cabinet hardware. 

Three simple wreaths to help celebrate this fun holiday! Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Linking to: Sewing Barefoot & One Creative Mommy & Itsy Bitsy & eighteen 25 & The 36th Avenue & Craftberry Bush & Tatertots and Jello & Craftberry Bush again, Made in a Day

September Door

I made this door decoration awhile back out of cool place mats from Wal*Mart. I think I saw them first on a blog made into a pillow.

Anyway... my friend and neighbor had a great front door decoration for Easter and I thought I could go a little more bold and bigger for my door decor, too!

The real leaves aren't completely falling just yet here in my part of the states, but they will be.

I love Fall. It is my favorite season!

The crafty scoop:

1. arrange placemats to your liking.
2. hand sew them together trying to not let the stitches show.

3. cut out poster board to match shapes of leaves and glue on back.

4. adhere additional small poster board pieces for junctions between leaves.

5. adhere a piece of ribbon on back

6. hang and admire :)

Linking to the fabulous: The 36th Avenue  & Tatertots and Jello and Sewing Barefoot, The Dedicated House