Happy Handmade Halloween Ghosts bats creepy-crawly spiders it must be time for Halloween This year impress your friends and family with your creativity and crafting skills and get busy making decorations for the big day All the projects in this book can be made using inexpensive craft supplies recycled bits and pieces from around your home and even fall leaves With just some cutting gluing and painting your home will soon be ready for a fantastic spooky handmade Halloween Stay Safe It’s very important to have an adult around whenever you do any of the following tasks Use scissors Use a glue gun Use an oven 4
YOU WILL NEED To make the projects in this book you don’t need any special equipment just some basic crafting tools and supplies Scissors Glue gun White glue Paints and paintbrushes Spray paint A hole punch A ruler A measuring tape 55
3-D Pumpkins It wouldn’t be Halloween without some pumpkins around the house So have fun making these three-dimensional 3-D pumpkin decorations YOU WILL NEED Green paper Scissors A toothpick or wooden skewer A scrap of cardboard to make a template A pen or pencil Thin orange card stock Glue stick or white glue 6
Stalk 1 To make a stalk for your pumpkin cut a piece of green paper that’s about 3 inches 7 6 cm long and 1 inch 2 5 cm wide Fold in the edges of the paper as shown Tendril 2 To make a tendril cut a long narrow strip of green paper Wind it tightly around a toothpick When you remove the paper strip from the toothpick it will form a coil Folded edge of cardboard 7 3 To make the sections of the pumpkin begin by making a template Fold a piece of cardboard in half On the folded edge draw a rounded oval shape as shown The oval should be about 3 inches 7 6 cm long
