• Egg carton ghosts craft for kids
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    Egg carton ghosts craft for kids

    October 1, 2016 - By 

    Now it’s October I feel like I can start telling you about the Halloween crafts we’ve been making. I plan my blog posts about 2 months in advance and as Halloween is perfect for crafting we have plenty to share. We love seasonal crafts and my children and I have lots of fun at this time of year. Today I’m sharing our egg carton ghosts craft for kids. The tutorial is from a new book for Kindle called 30 Halloween Crafts for Kids by Kate at Crafts on Sea, more of that a little later. Egg carton ghosts craft for…

  • Halloween Monster Letter Decorations
    Bostik Family Craft Bloggers Network - crafts - Halloween crafts

    Halloween Monster Letter Decorations

    September 14, 2016 - By 

    Here in the South of England we’ve been experiencing a mini heatwave. My daughter is only doing half days at school this week as she settles in so we’ve had some amazing afternoon playdates in the sunshine. All this makes today’s crafty post a little strange to write as we’ve started our Halloween crafting! Yep, not only are the shops full of Christmas cards but Halloween decorations too. A few days ago we received our latest parcel of Bostik goodies to craft with. The theme was Halloween which is always fun. Our parcel of goodies contained both Bostik Glue Dots…

  • EASY FABRIC PUMPKINS
    Halloween crafts - sewing

    How to make fabric pumpkins

    October 28, 2015 - By 

    We’ve carved our pumpkins but they’re already beginning to look a little rough around the edges. This year my 5 year old made a little instruction booklet for my husband, each page has a different step in how to carve a pumpkin, which we both thought was very sweet. My 5 year old insisted on carving a Creeper face into his pumpkin as he’s a huge Minecraft fan. I wanted to make something a little simpler and which lasts a lot longer so I made some sweet fabric pumpkins. They are really simple to make and you can make a…

  • baking - gingerbread - gingerbread house - Halloween crafts - Kids crafts - STEM activity - tutorial

    Decorating a Halloween gingerbread house

    October 28, 2015 - By 

    I posted a few pics of our gingerbread house on Instagram yesterday and got comments saying I was far too early for Christmas! Since when was a gingerbread house just for Christmas? I think they make a pretty good treat for Halloween too as they are really versatile and easy to decorate for any season. Decorating a Halloween gingerbread house As we’re currently in the middle of half term we decorated a gingerbread house as part of our Halloween celebrations. This is always a great activity to do with my children and it kept them occupied all afternoon. It also…

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    Getting ready for Halloween with DYLON

    October 26, 2015 - By 

    My children have been looking forward to going trick or treating for a while. This year it looks like we will be away over Halloween so, to make up for them missing out, I thought I would help them make their own Halloween costumes so we can have a little party whilst we are away. I’ve previously had fun experimenting with Dylon dyes so I thought I would make them costumes. Dylon sent us some plain white costumes along with a selection of Dylon dyes and a colourful Halloween palette for inspiration. When I showed my children the Halloween palette…

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    Sylvanian Families Halloween costumes

    October 13, 2015 - By 

    Sylvanian Families are one toy which is always out in our house so I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween play scene for my daughter. Did you see the photo I shared on Twitter last week about the new limited edition Sylvanian Families Halloween Set from Epoch? This spooky set contains an orange and black slide decorated with ghosts and ghoulies, as well as two figurines – Baby Crème Chocolate and little Ambrose Walnut. There are also two little rabbit cuddlies to keep the tots company, as well as matching accessories for them to play with as…

  • Halloween crafts - Kids crafts - Staedtler Try It Tribe

    Inventing our own Halloween characters

    October 13, 2015 - By 

    Halloween is all about pumpkins, ghosts and bats in our house. Thankfully we were challenged to create our own Halloween characters using a selection of Staedtler products. My 3 year old was excited to get creating and used pencils to design her special Halloween character. She decided to draw a scary spider. She gave it a body, 8 legs, 2 eyes and a smile – not very scary! Then she coloured it in with the highlighters. I love the fact the legs look like hair and it’s smiling. She was very proud of her spider I’m a member of the…

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    Toffee Apple Cupcakes

    October 12, 2015 - By 

    What better way to start a new working week than for me to share the news that National Chocolate Week starts today! Not that I need an excuse to celebrate but the Candy Craft Chocolate Pen, some Divine Chocolate, as well as an easy to follow cupcake recipe from Amy Beth-Ellice definitely helped. Toffee Apple Cupcakes I really loved the sound of the Toffee Apple cupcakes and thought they would be the perfect Autumnal treat. I also knew we could make some fun decorations with the Chocolate Pen! I adapted Amy Beth-Ellice’s recipe slightly as I didn’t have time to…

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    Halloween decorating ideas from Baker Ross

    September 30, 2015 - By 

    We are currently enjoying a sunny and warm Autumn but that hasn’t stopped us making a head start on our Halloween decorations. We received some great value craft kits from Baker Ross and I thought I would show you the end results, you can order from them online here. Halloween decorating ideas from Baker Ross My children like all kinds of crafts and they enjoyed trying something new with the Spider weaving placemat kit. The pre-cut spider shape is huge and my 5 year old immediately knew how to weave the ribbons through it as he had tried weaving in…