Fall Scarecrow Decoration

Materials:

  • Foam Stickers – Halloween Shapes
  • Foam Stickers – Alphabet
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Orange
  • Wood Picket Fence
  • Wood Dowel
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Green
  • Buttons of Choice
  • Crayola® Markers
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
  • Blunt Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Ceramcoat® Acrylic Paint – Autumn Brown
  • Craft Smart® Paint Brush
  • Disposable Plate for Paint Palette
  • Container of Water
  • Paper Towels
  • Recycled Newspaper (to protect work surface)
  • Foam Stickers – Leaves
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Tan
Instructions:
  1. Paint the fence with brown and let dry.
  2. ADULT:  Cut the dowel rod into 3 pieces: 1 longer piece for the scarecrow, and 2 shorter pieces for the corn.
  3. Use the brown marker to draw a pumpkin face on one of the pumpkins. Cut narrow strips of orange foam for the scarecrow’s straw arms and legs. Glue a dowel rod and straw legs and arms sandwiched in between 2 leaves, as shown, leaving a little bit of dowel sticking up at the top to attach the pumpkin head. Sandwich the dowel at top between the pumpkin face and another pumpkin.
  4. Adhere the corn to the 2 remaining dowel pieces. Remove the flower head from one of the sunflower stickers and adhere to another sunflower sticker. Glue a button to the flower head.
  5. Cut a 6-inch x 2-inch block of green foam. Cut a piece of tan foam to fit around the block; cut along one edge to give the appearance of grass. Glue the tan grass around the foam block. Insert all of the pieces into the foam block. Embellish with stickers and letters. Outline and detail some of the stickers if desired.

Spooky Halloween Sign

Materials:

  • Felt Sheet – Black
  • Foam Stickers – Alphabet
  • Felt Sheet – Yellow
  • Creatology™ Wiggle Eyes
  • Ribbon of Choice
  • Crayola® Pointed Scissors
  • Aleene’s “Tacky” Glue®
  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Felt Sheet – Purple
  • Felt Sheet – White
Instructions:
  1. Cut an 8-inch x 12-inch rectangle from black felt. Cut a 7½-inch x 12-inch rectangle from purple felt and fringe the long sides, as shown. (Note: to fringe, make small cuts along the edge of the felt.) Glue the purple rectangle centered on the black rectangle.
  2. Glue the letters to the sign to spell “Spooks Welcome” or other message of choice.
  3. Use a pencil to draw a ghost onto white felt, a circle onto yellow felt and a bat onto black felt. (Note: Be creative! There is no right or wrong way to draw these figures.) Cut out. Glue the ghost and yellow moon to the sign. Glue the bat to the moon.
  4. Cut the desired length of ribbon for a hanger and glue to the back of the sign. Tie a piece of ribbon into a shoestring bow and glue to the ghost for a bow tie.

Halloween Necklace

Materials:

  • Crayola® Model Magic® – White
  • Craft Twinkles® Glitter Paint – Multi Twinkles
  • Crayola® Washable No-Run School Glue
  • Crayola® Pointed Scissors
  • Yarn
  • Craft Sticks
  • Wood Rolling Pin
  • Crayola® Model Magic® – Orange
Instructions:
  1. Flatten and cut white Model Magic® Fusion® into the size and shape of a ghost pendant. To make a reclining figure like the one shown, create a long ghost with a bottom that comes to a gradual point. Roll this point around your finger so the necklace yarn can pass through the spiral.
  2. Bend the hands to hold the pumpkin and necklace.
  3. Shape and decorate a tiny pumpkin. Attach to the right hand of the ghost, as shown.
  4. Add ghost eyes and mouth with dots of glitter paint. When dry, brush a thin layer of glitter paint over the ghost. Let dry.
  5. Thread the yarn through the bottom of the ghost, around the back, and through the left arm. Reinforce any pieces with glue.

Halloween Candy Wrapper/Gift

Materials:

  • Cardstock
  • Sharpie® Fine-Tip Permanent Marker – Black
  • Raffia
  • Pencil
  • Aleene’s “Tacky” Glue®
  • Crayola® Blunt Tip Scissors
  • Hole Punch
  • Candy Bar

Instructions:

  1. Cut black cardstock to fit around candy bar. Cardstock should overlap about 1-inch. Glue cardstock to candy bar wrapper.
  2. Cut orange cardstock to 1½-inches x 5-inches or larger if needed. Glue to front of wrapper.
  3. Draw bat on black cardstock and cut out. Glue bat to orange cardstock.
  4. Cut one 1-inch x 2¾-inch orange rectangle. Cut one ¾-inch x 2½-inch white rectangle. Write Happy Halloween on the white rectangle and glue to the orange rectangle.
  5. Punch a hole in tag and through black cardstock. Thread raffia through both holes. Tie and trim raffia ends. Use glue to keep tag in place.

Halloween Scary Banner

Materials:

  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Black
  • Foam Shapes – Ghosts
  • Foam Stickers – Alphabet
  • Magnetic Specialty, Inc® Craft Magnets
  • Crayola® Blunt Tip Scissors
  • Crayola® Markers
Instructions:
  1. Cut banner from black foam.
  2. Decorate ghosts with markers as desired.
  3. Glue the ghosts and letters to the banner.
  4. Adhere a magnet strip to the back of the banner.