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7 projects. What’s Halloween without a spooky ghost? Must-have decorative Fall season displays have at least one or two ghosts  hanging around, spooky or friendly. Kids consider both kind of ghosts to add to the family fun.

Halloween Ghost Crafts to Entertain:

These are all easy, fun & fast to make.

1. Halloween Ghost Garland

Decorate your home or outside with this cute Ghost Garland that I designed last year. It comes with a template and all you need is some white paper, a black market and some Scotch tape. In other words, anyone can make these anywhere. Great craft to do when your kids have to wait for you in your office for an hour…

2. Haunted House Silhouette with Ghost

Stencil you can use for a-many-splendid things:  from casting a spell, to decorating the fridge, and everything in between.  Just print out the free template and begin your creative adventure.

3. Ghost Luminaries 
Easy recycling project to do with young children, and actually even older kids.  These cute luminaries can light up the path from the gate to your front door.

4. Crochet Halloween Ghost

This super-cute Halloween ghost pendant is one of 70+ free Halloween crochet patterns.

5. Halloween Ghost Cupcakes

Love these. So cute. And again, even if you are not a cooking queen, these ghosts appear to be actually doable.  Lots of sugar though, so I won’t be eating them any day soon, but I love to look at them.

 6. Halloween Tissue Paper Ghosts

Yes, you can use paper napkins too. You can made in a flash and they  look real fun.  Perfect for when you are bored in a restaurant, waiting for the bill….. (use only clean napkins though, although recycled is of course OK).

7. Halloween Ghost house decorating prop.  
This ghost is made with fabric stiffener and needs nothing to support it. Truly spooky and really clever!! 

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Find Everything Halloween here…

Visit our Halloween Central !  It has Halloween costume ideas, home decorating, party props, yummy ghostly treats, and lots more (many free templates and patterns) !!

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I It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review, but this one is interesting. It just came out last week: ‘Microcrafts’ by  Margaret McGuire, Alicia Kachmar, Katie Hatz and Friends. It is published by a wonderful publisher, Quirk Books, who only seem to feature titles that I like, love or that at least intrigue me. Worth checking out.

Darling ideas in the book includes the concepts of ‘Tiny Treasures’ and ‘Make and Share’.  Wonderfully illustrated concept pages inspire and are matched with simple Howto’s.

Learn How To Make Tiny Cupcake Charms

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Decide on Book Jewelry…

The 25 miniature crafts are contributed by several talented designers, which adds variety to the types of projects in the book.

Who’s the Book For?

The crafts in this book will inspire a crafty household and the result will be lots of whimsy in every room. 

However, don’t keep it all for yourself. Most projects would deliver delightful gifts (… oh how wonderful to be ready early this Christmas….)

Eco-Green Crafts, for Kids

One obvious benefit in making micro-CRAFTS is that it’s a great way to recycle and repurpose your scraps of fabric and other tiny things.

Furthermore, miniature craft projects make great doll accessories too.

The Verdict about the Book

It retails at $16.95 at Randomhouse.com. It’s worth buying at this price, but I have it here at Amazon for $8-10:

Buy Your Copy Today
Microcrafts: Tiny Treasures to Make and Share

(click link for more)

Tip: as it’s nicely illustrated, it makes for a fun coffee table book too.

Still not sure??!! In the next few weeks I’m going to feature one or more projects from this book, and you’ll get a better idea then!

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It’s hard to get into Halloween, with the sun beaming here in Italy like it’s mid-summer. But dates don’t lie: Fall is around the corner. At least at night there is a new freshness in the air, that tells me, Fall is indeed not that far away.

Getting Ready for Halloween

Over the last two years, we’ve done lots of Halloween crafts: pumpkin templates, Halloween costume ideas and designs, several Halloween coloring pages, ghost garlands and lots more. (CLICK link to find ‘m).

What I have featured too much of here is kids craft for Halloween. But, as I have been asked, I decided to do some toilet paper roll or other roll craft, and set you all up to make a bunch of adorable witches, which you can fill up with candy. Then, on Halloween eve, hand them out as Trick- or-treats.

Happy Pink Halloween Witch with Feet Dangling on a Ledge	The little Witch, sitting Happily on a Table top
Cute from all angles.	Fun Halloween Craft: Now go make it!

Materials

• toilet paper roll / other small roll
• this free Friendly Halloween Witch template (sign up for our newsletter to have it emailed to you. (existing sub
• a printer to print the template
• Kid scissors Kids Scissors (Classroom Pack, anyone?)

  
  
  
  Kush=grip scissors handles mean extra comfort + cutting control for small hands. One serrated and one sharp blade provide excellent cutting on all types of material, including sheet rubber, vinyl, and adhesive-backed papers. Durable.
  

• Elmer’s Glue – all purpose, non toxic, comes in all size containers

  

• Children’s coloring markers, such as Crayola Classic Washable Markers

Note for Mom’s, Playgroup & School Teachers:

Crayola class-pack color markers can be purchased open stock. Replenish missing and dried out markers to make your sets complete again for the upcoming year: an economical way to buy markers for an entire classroom.

The cardboard box is also an easy way to store markers, to sort them out after class, and to see which colors are missing. Class packs contain a total of 200 Broad tip markers packed in a sturdy cardboard box.

Craft Instructions

1. First, sign up for your newsletter and confirm you are you. In response, you will receive this template & many other great craft projects by email.

2. Then, print the free online template of our friendly witch.
3. Color the elements on the template as you wish. Be sure to put in some black, white, red, orange, or purple as they are classic Halloween colors. However, you can sure add pink or blue if these are your favorite colors.
4. Cut out the pieces of the template.
5. Glue black or purple tissue paper over the toilet paper roll to make the body.
6. Add glue or sticky tape to the head, arms and feet and paste the pieces onto the body.
7. Use glue or sticky tape to place the broom in the hands of the witch.
8. Tip:Depending on the thickness of the paper used, I’d like to glue the colored pieces first on some thin cardboard for extra strength.

Witch Template Details

Free Craft Template

Fit to page, when printing.

These are just some details of the full template.

Sign up with our mailing list, and get the whole template free.

Drawing Wizards, Witches and Warlocks
Fantasy is an endlessly enduring genre that has been recently popularized by such beloved books as The Lord of the Rings , The Chronicles of Narnia , and the Harry Potter series. Acclaimed artist Christopher Hart leads readers into this marvelous realm, where aspiring illustrators can go as far as their imaginations allow. With Hart’s guidance, they’ll learn how to create an entire cast of fascinating fantasy figures, from masters of sorcery who summon spirits and battle evil forces to dreaded creatures of darkness, such as ogres, cyclops, trolls, and goblins. An entire coven of witches range from classic hags to spell-binding, spell-casting teens, devilishly handsome warlocks, dragons, avenging angels, and more. Hart explains how to capture these characters’ strange forms, costumes, expressions, and action poses, as well as the magical effects that make them so extraordinary. With hundreds of step-by-step drawings, expert art instruction, and visual hints, Drawing Wizards, Witches and Warlocks is a crash course that will educate and inspire fans of all levels. Author — Christopher Hart. Paperback. 144 pages. 8½” × 11”.

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Great decorating idea for thanksgiving is making these seed balls. An inexpensive craft project with the kids, or even just all by yourself, having fun being creative.

image: bhg.com

Symbolic Meaning

Cornucopia, the overflowing horn, is an ancient symbol of abundance, and the seeds can represent both the seeds of change as well as the harvest and abundance source for renewal. From a simple interior design point of view, these seed balls make for a great, lasting color splash that stays a long time as table centerpiece.

Great idea for Fall and Thanksgiving.

How-to

• Materials; Foam or other balls; variety of beans & seeds, paint & glue
• Paint balls in colors of seeds/beans & let dry
• Glue on seeds. Bigger seeds need stronger glue and will be harder to work with.
• See ‘which glue to choose for the project’

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Back-to-School time is now! 

Would you believe that in Italy, kids have a FULL THREE MONTHS of summer vacation?!! They will only go back to school mid- September?

For those of you, who are starting earlier than that, here’s an overview of our Back-to-School projects and tips to date.

Back to School Sales & Deals for New Supplies

Our sponsor’s site, Blick, has great weekly deals and a superb selection of back-to-school stationary, art and other school supplies, etc. 

Well worth a visit!  Use the Blick Art Materials’ Current Promo Code and
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL IDEAS

There are too many creative back-to-school project plans, patterns & ideas to highlight all at once. So let me share them with you progressively over the week, neatly organized like this:

monday : fun fashion friendship gifts that are easy to make

tuesday : backpacks, school bags & lunch bags

wednesday : pencil cases, make-up bags & ‘thingy’ bags

thursday : schedulers, organizers, notice boards, locker ideas & desk accessories

friday : college, teenage & kid bed room decorating

I hope you enjoyed all ideas & tutorials and are having a beautiful, fun & productive start of the new school year.

And if you want ‘a bit of everything back-to-school’ already today, have a look at our Back-to-School Creative Projects overview of last year, or simply use our category or search buttons and browse around. We have 600+ project posts here; you are bound to find something you’ll love to make.

BTW In the week following, I’ll sort through my Provence, France design and creative idea photos, for those who requested this.

Going Back-to-school can be a celebration and a fun time to reconnect with school friends. Start on a good foot with old pals and/or set yourself/your kids up for fresh starts in old friendships: make some friendship gifts, to help anyone to be trendy this Fall. 

Celebrate Back-to-School!

Let’s begin: here is your ‘Monday’ supply of ideas: friendship back-to-school fashion & jewelry gifts that are easy to make.

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