Halloween Bags For Gifts Or Treats

Materials:

  • Paper Craft Sack
  • Ribbon of Choice
  • Halloween Hole Punch
  • Cardstock
  • Acrylic Jewels
  • Tissue Paper – Various Colors
  • Crayola® Pointed Scissors
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
  • 3M® Double Stick Tape

Instructions:

  1. Use double-stick tape to adhere ribbon to bags. Curl some ribbon and tie to bag handles.
  2. Create embellishments using cardstock and craft punches, or just create your own designs.
  3. Apply jewels to the embellishments as desired.
  4. Glue the embellishments to the bags or use ribbon to attach them.
  5. Fill the bags with party favors, goodies, etc. and tissue paper.

Halloween Ghost-Of-A-Pillow

Materials:

  • Pencil
  • Felt
  • DMC® Needle
  • Floss
  • Poly-fil® Polyester Fiberfill
  • Thread
  • Scissors
  • Celebrate It™ Tulle
  • Big Bag Buttons
  • Sewing Basket 100 Color Ball Pins
  • Quilting Basket Chalk Marking Pencils
  • Sewing Machine (Adult Use Only)

Instructions:

  1. Lay the white felt flat on your work surface and fold in half.
  2. Draw and cut out ghost pattern. Pin the pattern to both layers of the felt and cut around the edges. Remove pins and discard the pattern.
  3. Place the top piece of felt in front of you and put the back aside.
  4. Gather the buttons needed for the face and place beside you. Thread 6 strands of floss onto a needle and knot one end. For each eye, you can sew the 2 buttons on at the same time as shown.
  5. Sew the middle button of the mouth on first and build out from there.
  6. Use a chalk pencil to draw the hair swirl before backstitching.
  7. Cut the patches from neon lime and lavender felt sheets. Make them as big or little as you want. Pin them onto the ghost front where desired. You may choose to overlap them as in the photo. Straight stitch the patches into place. Sew buttons on if you wish.
  8. When you are done embellishing the ghost, flip the front over and place on top of the back piece. Be sure to align edges and pin them together. Note: The ghost should be pinned together inside-out.
  9. Have an adult sew the ghost together using the sewing machine, being sure to leave at least a 4-inch wide opening for stuffing.
  10. Turn the ghost right-side-out and fill with Poly-Fil®. Stitch closed with floss or thread.

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.