Halloween Costume

This month Allison helped her friend, Nicole make this great costume of Melanie Daniels from "The Birds."  They found the dress at goodwill, purchased the birds at a craft store and hot glued them to the dress.  The "peck marks" are red lipstick.  Nice job!  Great pose too:)

Monster Windows

This month Kelly got a jump on Halloween.   After seeing this on Pinterest she decided to do her own version.

 Kelly purchased black poster board at the Dollar Tree.  She had chalk and tissue paper on hand so she went to work creating some fun monsters.

The whole craft was less than $4.00 - love it!  So simple, so fun.

Felt Fun

I saw this Roll a Jack-O-Lantern Game over at the Oopsey Daisy Blog and thought it would be fun to make out of felt for the kids' felt boards.  I made up several sets of eyes, mouths, noses and teeth to make lots of different pumpkins.  I used liquid stitch to attach the stems and the black and white together for eyes.

Then I still had plenty of orange felt left over to make the Roll-A-Lorax Game that I found at the Smashed Peas and Carrots Blog.  The kids really enjoy this movie and got a kick out of making their own.  Especially when we tried on the mustaches ourselves:)

Happy Halloween!

I saw this and decided to give it a go on our door.  I always see a project and think, "Oh yea, I could whip that out."  This took an hour.  I left a spot on the bottom of the door so the kids could still peek out the bottom of it.  It looked great the first few days.




Then by the end of the month you can see the mummy started to come unwrapped:)  Two looks for the price and time of one.  Our glass door gets a lot of sun in the afternoons and the tape I used on the inside of the door, as well as the streamers modified itself in the heat.  Hard to see from the picture but bright white at the beginning of the month and by the end streamers had yellow a bit, just like a real mummy - ha!

 I got the kiddos involved a few days later as we made pumpkin puzzles.  Saw a good tutorial and knew I had some orange sticks in the craft stash.  We used 5 sticks per puzzle and taped the outside edges to draw our pumpkins.  The we took the tape off and mixed them all up.

When we mixed just the 5 up - each puzzle went together pretty quick.  But them we mixed all the sticks up and it took them a little longer to do an we ended up with some fun faces in the process.

Pumpkins!

This month Allison and her boyfriend Trent got their craft on with pumpkin carving.  Sorry your Cardinals didn't make it to the World Series Allison!

Halloween Bookmarks

 This month I made some Halloween bookmarks from a digital scrapbooking kit by Irene Alexeeva.

Glow-In-The-Dark Halloween Shirts

 
 Of course, I had tons of Halloween crafts planned, but sadly, this is the only one that got done.  I made the boys glow-in-the-dark shirts for Halloween.  They LOVE them!  For these, I downloaded shapes from the Silhouette Library and cut them out using glow-in-the-dark HTV and regular HTV (orange and red).  I used my heat press to set.  I can't wait to find more uses for glow-in-the-dark HTV.  It was the best to weed and the most fun to play with!

Creepy Crafty Halloween

Coffee Coffee Coffee!!!

After seeing a Starbucks costume for little kids on pinterest last year I decided that I wanted to be a cup of Caribou Coffee this year!  Luckily I had the help of some awesome people to pull this together for me.  Vicki (my mom) made a pattern and then sewed the wonderful white dress and Gail used her silhouette to cut out (GLOW IN THE DARK!) and make the very professional looking belt which really helped pull this all together so people knew what I was!  And Thanks to Erin as well for the use of the heat press!!  Then to finish it off I wrote all over it with 'things that I stay awake for' as per the Caribou theme.  Overall it turned out great and was a hit!  Thanks Ladies!!  

mummy door and Halloween decor

Chick Magnet!

 So the night before we still hadn't settled on a costume for my husband so browsing thru target we decided some arts and crafts were in order... we made the magnet out of tagboard and then used silver duct tape and construction paper to finish it off... for the final touches we ziptied chicks to the magnet and used tent pole string to tie it together... very manly crafting.

all lit up

finished pumpkins

And of course there was some pumpkin carving - Mine was a minion from Despicable Me - Thanks Pinterest!!!