Cool winter winds bring along a lot enthusiasm. A great decorative mantle piece or table top that adds on the winter chimes is a fabric pumpkin. Rather than having a single piece, make three in graduated sizes with different colors.

The materials required to make a fabric pumpkin are fabric, glue gun or glue sticks, small tree branch 1-2″ in diameter, black and orange tissue, newspaper or polyester fibers, fall leaves, Styrofoam block and bag of wrapped candy.

To make beautiful and decorative pumpkin, first collect all the materials. On the wrong side of the fabric, place your pumpkin. After that bring the fabric over the top and cover the whole pumpkin with the fabric. For different pumpkins use different color materials. Stick the fabric using a glue gun.

Once you have attached the fabric with the glue, allow it to dry. After it is dried, glue Styrofoam block to inside, center and bottom of pumpkin. Then force the stem into the block and glue it securely. Fill ¾ of the hollow pumpkin with newspaper or polyester fiber. Fill the top most portion of the pumpkin with colored tissue and over it place a layer of wrapped candies.

For a special effect you can attach some falling leaves to the attached stem and decorate the sides with berries. This makes a wonderful Halloween fabric pumpkin. Make these centerpiece using several different materials and colors.

It’s fun and exciting to involve yourself in preparing this exciting craft for a great celebration.

Fun and excitement is always associated with festivals and celebrations especially Halloween. Halloween craft is associated with various decorative and interesting pumpkin items. One of the most popular pumpkin craft is paper bag pumpkin.

The materials that you require for making these exclusive craft articles are lunch or grocery paper bag, string or green yarn, markers, crayons or paints and newspaper. These materials when gathered together can ease your work and help you make creative paper bag pumpkins.

To make these pumpkins, firstly, take flat bottomed paper bags and fill ¾ of these bags with newspapers. You can also stuff in some waste materials like fabrics, polyester fibers o tissue papers. Once you completely stuff in the newspapers, gather the ends of the bag together and tie it with a string or yarn. This string serves as a stem for the pumpkin.

Make sure that the bag is completely enclosed when you tie the string. Form the shape by pressing it with your hands and make it look like a pumpkin. You can further decorate the paper bag pumpkin with various colors, paints and markers. You can make scary faces, mask or even use them show pieces.

What can be more exciting than preparing exciting and enduring paper pumpkins?

These crafts further help you bring out the hidden artist in you and the children. This is the traditional way, but you can add your own creative bit also for added excitement. Maybe this way you will start your own tradition!

Costume skeletons are great idea for a boy or girl’s Halloween costume.

This is very exciting and easy costume that the kids can make and have fun trick or treating in. All the materials required to make a new skeleton costume are black sweatshirt, black sweatpants, white fabric paint, white puff fabric paint, white chalk, white face paint, black face paint, paint brush and glow in the dark paint or stickers.

To make good skeleton costumes, you first need to wash your black sweat shirt and black sweat pants. Sweatshirts and sweat pants tend to shrink in the wash and so after washing fabric paints adheres well to the fabric. Lay your clothing on to a flat surface and use a chalk or a white marker to draw outline of skeleton bones. Use your shirt to draw ribcage, arm bones and spinal cord and use pants to outline leg bones and pelvic bones. After outlining, fill in your skeleton bones with white fabric paints and cover the black. Then, make a final outlining with your white puff paint to have a clean effect and provide a three dimensional quality to the costume. This makes a good scary costume.

Once your skeleton costume is done and the paint gets dried, add some glow to it using glow paints or glow stickers that shine in the dark. This will help them to be clearly visible in the dark. These fun costumes are a great way to add excitement to trick and treating.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective. If you are looking for the best festive decoration for Halloween, then flapping bats is the most inexpensive and interesting fun craft.

For making these fun crafts, you need to make bat templates, black craft foam, red sequins, black paper fasteners, piece of ribbon, bead and dental floss or a piece of string. Take a craft foam and use bat template to form the shape of a bat. Cut the shape to make the body of the bat. Then cut 2 matching wings from black craft foam. Punch holes on the bat body to attach wings to the body. Align the hole farthest from the rounded end of the wing with a hole in the shoulder. With the help of black fasteners, loosely attach wings to the back of the body. Attach red sequins to the face securely with good glue.

After that, thread dental floss through the remaining wing holes. Use the dental floss or string to hang freely beyond the bat’s head. For a more decorative purpose, tie a bead to the end of the string. You can also tie a piece of ribbon through the hole at the bottom of the body. Using this piece of ribbon, you can tie your flapping bat upside down on a wall or window. You can pull the string to view a beautiful but scary flapping bat. Children can get quite fascinated with these Halloween wingy creatures and make their own flappy bats.

Scary witches’ hats are a wonderful option for treating others or gifting as party favors on Halloween.

They also serve the purpose of table or tree decorations. These hats can be made using various materials but the most essential requirements are heavy craft paper or cardboard, craft knife and black paint. Children and adults both enjoy making these crafts and use them for treating or scaring during Halloween.

To make these exciting hats, draw a semi circle on the sheet of heavy craft paper or cardboard. Make this semi circle using a compass, circular template or a bangle. Measure about 120 degrees angle from the center and draw a radius through 120 degrees. Make use of the protractor to have the exact angle measurement. Go for bigger size caps, by cutting a bigger circle from the sheet of paper. Cut the sheet of paper along the drawn semi circle using a craft knife or scissors. Cut the semi circle from the heavy craft paper, shape it into a cone. Shape the paper in such a form that resembles a witch’s hat. Glue or staple the paper at the required points or ends.

Once you are done with the cone shaped hat, draw a full circle on the piece of paper. To draw this full circle, reset your compass to half the length of the radius of semi circle. Cut the full circle and use that sheet of paper for making the base of the hat. This completes the witch’s hat.
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Halloween is much more than just costumes and Trick or Treating. This is a festival of joy and entertainment especially if you have younger children at home.

From making masks out of paper to preparing scary decorations, there is multitude of fun Halloween crafts that you can do with your tiny tots.

The most popular crafts include goodie boxes, ice cream stick pumpkins, paper bag pumpkins, pumpkin carvings, face masks, witch’s hat, haunted house, ghosts, spiders, flapping bats, cat patrol and milk jar.

The most popular craft is the Jack-o-Lantern, a craft that originated from the ancient ceremony of feasting and welcoming the dead by the living. Most of the people during those days made face masks that resembled their deities and spirits. This blend of festival and art of making faces paved way for traditional pumpkins carved as Jack-o-Lanterns.

People in the earlier times also used skulls and bones to store relics of their ancestors. They used celebrate a festival of reincarnation and invited their dead relatives and ancestors to the festival celebration by placing their skull. There was a time when people used to keep relics of their ancestors in the form of heirlooms and their bones, such as skulls, and used to honor them on celebrations and festivities and invite them to join their parties and festivities. This made the craft of pumpkin and Jack-o-lantern more popular in later years. Times may have changed now but the spirit of Jack-o-lantern remains. Children still enjoy them at parties.