Paper Bag Scarecrows
These cute fall creatures are so easy to make. What you need: - Paper bags - Newpaper - Markers - Egg carton - Raffia or ribbon - Twist tie - Glue - Scissors - Buttons - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Draw a scarecrow face on the bottom 1/3 of your paper bag. Just add dots for the eyes as you will be adding button eyes at the end. 2. Stuff crinkled up newspaper into the bottom 1/3 of your paper bag. 3. Squeeze your bag shut just about the newspaper and close with twist tie. 4. Using scissors, cut the top of the paper bag in strips down to just above the twist tie. Fan out strips to make scarecrow’s hair. 5. Cut up egg carton into individual cups to from ‘hats’. 6. Wrap a piece of ribbon or raffia around the base of a hat and glue hat on top of your scarecrow’s head. 7. Glue button eyes onto your scarecrow’s face. You can hang up these funny scarecrow heads or sit them on a windowsill to watch over the trick or treating fun!
Fall Suncatcher
What you need: - A selection of fall leaves - Two pieces of waxed paper the size of your window - Iron - Ironing board - 2 pieces of brown craft paper the same size as your waxed paper - An adult assistant to help you with the craft What you do: 1. Put one sheet of craft paper on your ironing board. 2. Place one sheet of waxed paper, waxed side up, on top of the craft paper. 3. Arrange your leaves in an attractive pattern. 4. Place the second sheet of waxed paper on top, waxed side down, lining up the edges. 5. Place the second piece of craft paper on top. 6. Have your adult assistant iron the craft paper on a low setting, being sure to heat right to the edge. When you are done, the two pieces of wax paper should stick together, suspending the leaves in place. Tape your artwork onto your window and you can enjoy the beauty of fall all year ‘round.
Crafty Critterz: Hot Air Balloon
Submitted by: can with Zoey What you need: 1 balloon 1 square Box 4 pipe cleaner Makers Brown construction paper Scissors Tape / Glue What you do: 1. Cut off the top of the square box with your scissors to make the basket of your hot air balloon. 2. Cover the sides of the box with brown construction paper. Glue or tape it on securely. Then with a brown maker draw lines on the paper to make it look more like a basket. 3. Tape a pipe cleaner inside each corner of the box. They will hold up the balloon. 4. Blow up your balloon until it reaches the size that your want. Tie the balloon. 5. Decorate the balloon in any design that you want with the markers. 6. Tape the top end of the pipe cleaners to the sides of the balloon. Be careful the balloon can bust. Now your Webkinz will be ready to float around in their hot air balloon! Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Clay Owl Craft
This craft is so easy you’d be wise to make a few. What you need: - Sculpting clay - Marker cap What you do: 1. Roll out clay to about ¼” thickness and cut out a circle using a drinking glass as a cookie cutter. 2. Use the cap of a marker to lightly press overlapping semi-circles into the front of the circle to form the breast feathers of your owl. 3. Fold in the two sides of your circle to create the wings. 4. Fold down the top of your circle to form the head and squeeze the middle of the flap slightly to make a beak shape. 5. Mold the ears into points. 6. Make two eyes with the top of the marker. 7. If you’re using baking clay, have an adult assistant help you bake it according to instructions and then paint your creation. These little owls are a real hoot!
Crafty Critterz: Paper Bag Googlies
Submitted by: ale with happy What you need: Brown paper bag Magazine photos of eyes, nose, lips Scissors Glue What you do: 1. Cut out pictures of eyes, noses and lips from your favorite magazine. 2. Clip the top of each bag to create fringe. 3. Glue the faces on each bag. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Indian Corn Craft
What you need: - Toilet roll - Yellow tissue paper - Yellow or orange ribbon - Orange, black, brown, yellow and red paint - Paintbrush (or finger!) - Glue What you do: 1. Using a paintbrush or your finger, randomly dab spots of paint all over the toilet roll. Allow to dry. 2. Wrap a piece of tissue paper around toilet roll, leaving it partially open on one side to expose ‘corn.’ Make sure there is plenty of excess paper at one end. 3. Glue paper in place near the end of the toilet roll where there is excess paper. 4. Tie a ribbon around the excess paper, just below the toilet roll. You can make a bunch of corn by tying several corn cobs together. This craft makes a great decoration for your front door.
Crafty Critterz: Webkinz Bat Cave
Submitted by: pol with Halloween What you need: Large show box or a small cardboard box with the top cut off Black construction paper Glue or two-sided tape Crayons Glitter White Chalk What you do: 1. Line the inside of your box with black construction paper using glue or two sided tape. 2. Use white chalk to write “BAT CAVE” on a piece of black. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Halloween Banner
What you need: 4 sheets of orange and black construction paper, 5 sheets of white construction paper, orange yarn, craft glue, scissors What you do: Cut two isosceles triangles from each of the black and orange construction paper sheets. Fold the top of each triangle about half an inch from the top. Place a line of glue in the fold and press the yarn into the fold. Make a line of triangles and let the glue dry. If you want, you can add some masking tape to the back of each to help hold them in place. Cut the words “Happy Halloween” out of the white construction paper. Glue “Happy Halloween” onto your triangles. When everything is dry, hang up your banner with pride!
Crafty Critterz: Wizard Halloween Costume
Submitted by: gil with Carl What you need: Black, brown and red pipe cleaners White fabric Markers Scissors Tape or glue String What you do: Cape: 1. Use scissors to cut a square of white fabric about the size of your Webkinz back and shoulders. 2. Color a letter of your choice in a bright color, and color the rest of the cape black. 3. Cut a piece of string two times the length of your Webkinz neck. 4. Fold the very top of the cape over the middle of the string and back to the cape so that there is about one centimeter of fabric folded over the string. Use glue or tape to make it stay. 5. Wrap the cape around your Webkinz neck and tie the string in a bow. Glasses: 6. Cut a black pipe cleaner in thirds. 7. Carefully bend one third into an “O” shape. Do the same with another third. 8. Take the last third of pipe cleaner, loop it through one of the “O”s and twist it around the “O”. 9. Using the other end of the pipe cleaner that you just put through the “O,” … Read more
Crafty Critterz: Witch Costume
Submitted by: sop with sophie What you need: Wire Black craft paper Hot glue Hole punch Scissors What you do: Witch Hat 1. Take one sheet of black craft paper and curve it into a cone shape. Glue it to a circle of paper. 2. Punch a hole on both side and tie a wire through it. Make sure one side of the wire is easy to untie. Cloak 3. Cut black craft paper into a size that will fit your Webkinz. 4. Punch out holes on each side of the cloak by the belly and chest. Tie a wire through it. Make sure one side of the wire is easy to untie. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Fall Leaf Butterflies
What you need: - Two pipe cleaners, pink or pink plus one other color - Two or four fall leaves, not too crumbly - Glue gun - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: Place the two pipe cleaners alongside each other, overlapping so that there is about 2″ of spare pipe cleaner at each end. Bend the two pipe cleaners at the middle and twist together to form your butterfly’s body. With the spare ends, form antennae. Using a glue gun, run a bead of glue along the bottom of the butterfly body and affix one leaf. Repeat with second leaf overlapping first leaf. Why not suspend your new friend from the ceiling where you can see it every day?
Pretty Pink Gift Tags
Hey all! Nibbles here. We had SUCH a great time at the Pink Party that we wanted to send some thank you gifts to everyone who helped out. Here are the pretty pink gift tags I made – and here’s how to make them! What you need: Pink cardstock or scrapbooking paper in two shades of pink, hole punch, small cup, larger cup, pink ribbon, pink marker, pink glitter glue, pink stickers, scissors, craft glue or glue stick What you do: Trace your small cup on one of the pieces of cardstock or scrapbook paper. Trace your larger cup on the other piece of cardstock. Cut out each circle. Glue the small circle onto the larger one. Using a hole punch, make a hole at the top of the large circle. Thread the pink ribbon through the hole. Decorate your tags with pretty stickers, glitter and designs. Tie your tags onto gifts you want to give!
Crafty Critterz: Paper Pumpkins
Submitted by: Sam with Butterflies What you need: Scissors Orange construction paper Green construction paper Glue stick Stapler What you do: 1. Cut orange paper strips 2. Arrange strips in an asterisk shape with ends overlapping in center. Staple together. 3. Pull up other ends to middle, staple in place. 4. Cut out a leaf from the green paper. 5. Cut two strips of green paper and wrap around a pencil. 6. Staple two strips to the top of the pumpkin. 7. Glue leaf in the middle to cover all staples. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Autumn Pencil Case
What you need: A piece of felt in red or orange, red, orange, yellow, green and brown felt scraps, yarn, darning needle, two large beads. What you do: Fold the piece of felt in half (hamburger fold). Thread the darning needle with your yarn. Tie a not at the end. Sew both sides of the felt to make a bag. Around the top of your bag, do a simple, big stitch. When you’ve got all around the top, take the needle off the yarn and tie a big bead onto either end of the yarn. You can pull the yarn to close the bag (this is how a drawstring works). If you want a larger bag, just use two pieces of felt and sew them together – use the same method for the drawstring part. Cut out leaf shapes from each of the felt scraps. Attach felt leaves with fabric glue.
