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Thanksgiving Turkey Centerpiece

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Materials:

  • Creatology™ Wiggle Eyes
  • Craft Smart® Acrylic Paint – Brown
  • Scissors
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
  • Paper Towels
  • Paper Plate
  • Felt
  • Wood Spoon
  • Craft Pumpkin
  • Feathers
  • Raffia
  • Paint Brush
Instructions:
  1. Paint wooden spoon brown, let dry.
  2. Adults Only: use end of scissors to make holes in the pumpkin for feathers. Then make a hole for the spoon in front of feather holes.
  3. Insert feathers into holes as shown.
  4. Cut beak and waddle from felt and glue to front of spoon as shown. Glue wiggle eyes to spoon.
  5. Insert spoon into pumpkin.
  6. Tie small raffia bow around neck of spoon.

Thanksgiving Apron

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Material List:

  • Americana® Acrylic Paint
  • Creatology™ Wiggle Eyes
  • Container of Water
  • Paper Plate
  • Paint Brush
  • Glue Gun (Adult Use Only)
  • Iron-on Transfer Paper
  • Sharpie® Fine-Tip Permanent Marker – Black
  • Iron
  • Paper Towels
  • Fabric Medium
  • Iron-On Transfer Pen
  • Child-Size Apron

Instructions:

  1. Trace patterns onto tracing paper. Flip design face down. Use Iron-on transfer pen to trace over reverse side of designs. Position design on apron ink-side down. Press over design with iron. Lift corner of paper to check for design transfer. Remove paper.
  2. Mix paint colors with Fabric Medium 2:1 on palette.
  3. Use Lamp Black to paint feathers.
  4. Use Titanium White to paint feather tips.
  5. Use Honey Brown to paint head and wings.
  6. Use Cadmium Yellow to paint beak. Let dry.
  7. Use Honey Brown to paint line work on feathers.
  8. Use marking pen to do lettering and outlining.
  9. Let dry 24-48 hours. Heat set: Place pressing cloth or brown paper bag over painted design. Set iron on temperature appropriate for fabric type. Press design for 30 seconds with iron. Follow label instructions for laundering information.
  10. Position and adhere wiggle eyes on face.

Fall Picture Frame

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Materials:

aterial List

  • Wood Frame
  • Hirschberg Beads – White Round Alphabet
  • Craft Smart® Acrylic Paint – Brown
  • Ribbon of Choice
  • Foam Shape – Gift Tag
  • Hole Punch
  • Craft Pumpkin
  • Creatology™ Chenille Stem – Brown
  • Crayola® Markers
  • Blunt Scissors
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
  • Craft Smart® Paint Brush
  • Disposable Plate for Paint Palette
  • Container of Water
  • Paper Towels
  • Recycled Newspaper (to protect work surface)
Instructions:
  1. Paint the frame with brown and let dry.
  2. Glue ribbon around the top of the frame. Glue letters over ribbon to spell “Pumpkin” or other word of choice.
  3. Use a hole punch to punch a hole in the foam tag as shown. Tie a piece of ribbon through the hole. Use the marker to write the year on the tag.
  4. Glue the tag and the pumpkin to the frame. Coil the chenille stem around the paintbrush handle and glue to the pumpkin.

Fall Scarecrow Decoration

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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

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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.