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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.

Halloween Necklace

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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 Scary Banner

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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.

Halloween Placemats

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Materials Needed:

  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Yellow
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Black
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Purple
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Green
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – White
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Orange
  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
Instructions:
  1. Cut an orange piece of foam into 1” strips lengthwise. Set aside.
  2. Cut the black foam sheet into 1” strips width-wise (top to bottom). Lay the vertical strips side by side in front of you. Weave an orange strip horizontally through at the top of the black strips, and glue them all together. Allow to dry.
  3. Repeat step 2 until all the orange strips are in place. Apply glue only at the beginning and end of each strip. The final strip gets glued along the entire outside edge.
  4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 with the other colors of foam sheets. Be sure to always cut the orange sheets lengthwise, and the contrast color vertically.
  5. Trace 4 of each bone onto the white foam sheets, and cut out.
  6. Glue bone pieces onto placemats as seen in photo. They will go where the fork, knife and spoon go.