• Halloween gingerbread ghosts
    baking - gingerbread - Halloween crafts

    Halloween gingerbread ghosts

    September 28, 2015 - By 

    We’ve had a steady stream of visitors recently so thought we should give our baking a seasonal twist. We love gingerbread so made our favourite gingerbread biscuit recipe and used a great Halloween cutter to make Halloween gingerbread ghosts. Ingredients for Halloween gingerbread ghosts: 350g Plain flour 1tsp Bicarbonate of soda 2 tsp Ground ginger 100g Butter 175g Light muscovado sugar 4 tbsp Golden Syrup 1 large egg How to make Halloween gingerbread ghosts: Place the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs, then stir…

  • Halloween crafts - Handmade gifts - Kids crafts - Nature crafts

    Homemade Halloween treat bag

    September 27, 2015 - By 

    We’re lucky to live in a really family-friendly neighbourhood and the last couple of years the children have dressed up to go trick or treating. We know all our neighbours and they always have a few sweets for them when the children visit. I wanted to make some special treat bags with them and thought it would be fun to print out own using apples. Equipment needed to make a homemade Halloween treat bag: Craft paper box with twine handle from The Works Apple Orange acrylic paint and brush How to make a homemade Halloween treat bag: Apples make the…

  • Halloween luminaries
    crafts - Halloween crafts - tutorial

    Halloween luminaries

    September 26, 2015 - By 

    I love celebrating the seasons and we’ve been having fun with our Halloween crafts this year. Since my 3 year old has recently started pre-school I’ve had some rare time to myself and made some sweet Halloween luminaries. This is a quick craft and make great decorations. Equipment needed to make Halloween luminaries: Bonne Maman jars (washed and dried with labels removed) Mod Podge Halloween decoupage paper Paint brush Scissors LED tealights How to make Halloween luminaries: Tear or cut the decoupage paper into small pieces. Apply the Mod Podge to small areas of the glass jar and cover with…

  • Duck Tape crafts - Halloween crafts - Kids crafts - tutorial

    Duck Tape Halloween decoration

    September 24, 2015 - By 

    A few week ago I found a colourful new Duck Tape to add to our collection in Hobbycraft – Pumpkin Glow in the Dark Duck Tape! I love Autumnal colours and my children are desperate to start decorating for Halloween so I thought we would make a simple Duck Tape Halloween decoration using our special glow in the Duck Tape. Equipment to make a Duck Tape Halloween decoration: Pumpkin Glow in the Dark Duck Tape Sheet of A3 card or paper Scissors/Swann Morton scalpel How to make a Duck Tape Halloween decoration Cover one side of an A3 sheet of…

  • Pumpkin and gourd sun catcher decorations
    Autumn - Halloween crafts - Kids crafts

    Pumpkin and gourd sun catcher decorations

    September 13, 2015 - By 

    Don’t shout at me or leave rude comments but we’ve started our Halloween crafting. I know it’s early but we thought we’d make a head start. The weather can’t seem to make its mind up what season it is which doesn’t help. One day we’re wearing winter woolies and the next we’re back in our sandals and shorts. Autumn is my favourite season and we’ve been planning Apple Days and our Autumn fairy garden. Therefore it seemed pretty natural to make some Autumnal sun catcher decorations. My 5 year old was asking when we would be able to buy our…

  • baking - Halloween crafts

    Half-term fun with Flora Halloween Fun Pack

    November 1, 2014 - By 

    We’ve had a brilliant half-term. The weather has been amazing and we’ve enjoyed some lovely days out. Our quiet moments were filled thanks to Flora who kindly sent us a copy of their Flora Halloween Fun Pack (available to download from their website) and a creepy crate filled with craft materials. We’ve been quite busy working our way through the fun pack! The guide contains easy and tasty recipes, arts and crafts ideas and games to play with the kids. It was great fun for half-term, especially as both children embraced Halloween this year. As you can see from the…

  • Autumn - Halloween crafts - homemade - homestyle - Nature crafts

    On my mantel – October

    October 28, 2014 - By 

    I’ve had lots of fun decorating my mantel this month. The Autumnal colours have crept in and our nature table has been bursting with leaves, pinecones and seeds which the children have adored picking up. My vintage bus blind is still in its usual place on the mantel. We have done a little decorating this month but still haven’t decided on a permanent home for this. I love it though so I’m glad it’s still somewhere central. As well as the vintage bus blind I have my brass candlesticks, two of my favourite ceramic tea light houses, our clock and…

  • clothes peg bats
    Halloween crafts - Kids crafts - tutorial

    How to make clothes peg bats

    October 26, 2014 - By 

    Halloween crafts and fun and can be really simple. My children are itching to decorate the house so we made some simple clothes peg bats to hang up. Equipment needed to make clothes peg bats: wooden clothes pegs black acrylic paint black paper scissors sticky tape and glue dots How to make clothes peg bats: Paint the clothes pegs with black acrylic paint and leave to dry. Draw around your child’s hands on black paper and cut out. Tape the two hand shapes together at the wrists and glue the clothes peg in place. Add eyes or ears, we used…

  • baking - Halloween crafts

    Planning a Spooktacular Halloween

    October 18, 2014 - By 

    Yesterday we had a practice run on our Halloween cupcakes. The children are excited as we’ve decided to bake our contribution to the school Halloween party. We made chocolate cupcakes with little graveyard cupcake toppers from Felt-o-Ween. They should be good enough for our own Halloween party the following week too. So far I’ve resisted putting up our Halloween decorations. I’m not sure when’s the right time. We have some costumes, Big Brother is a skeleton (in a comfy onesie) and Little Sis will be a witch. My 4 year old is itching to fill a bowl with spooky sweets…