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Hobbies and crafts are very popular activities these days and what better time then Halloween to get creative. In this article we look at some simple Halloween craft ideas you can create your self or you can involve the children and use some of the Halloween craft ideas for them.
Creating Halloween craft ideas with kids
Kids like to create their own scary props and they also like to make things that are in season. So with Easter let them help with coloring the eggs, and other themed crafts and with Halloween its great to let them help out with making the decorations. But there are also great Halloween coloring pages if you need something quick to keep them busy.
Most of the things you need for Halloween craft ideas for kids you will probably already have in your house and the things you do need to buy will not be expensive at all. Just choose crafts that are simple enough for their age to handle and they will be fine. Make sure you put down a lot of old newspapers for them to work on and prevent a mess.
Have fun and safe money with Halloween craft ideas
Homemade Halloween crafts are a great way to decorate your home in an inexpensive way. For the best Halloween craft ideas you usually don’t need to go out and buy anything special. Even if you do need to buy something it will probably not cost much. When you need to buy all sorts of decorations you will need to spend a lot of money and some will never look quit as good then when you would put some effort in yourself. In the end it will all depend on the amount of time you want to spend in making all those different Halloween craft ideas.
Halloween craft idea #1: make party invitations with your kids
Something you can make as simple or difficult as you like are invitation for your own Halloween party. You can make them yourself, make them with the kids or with the right preparations you can let the kids make them all by themselves. Making their own invitations is something most kids will love to do. A very simple idea is to trace around the hands on a brown or mustard yellow card for monsters, or green cards for witches. Silver or white cards can be used for ghost hands. The kids can stick on fingernails made from paper. Best thing is to let them be creative but you can give them hints and let them make the monster nails black or gray and witches nails can be made more colorful. Let the kids decorate the hands in their own way and let them imagine how ghost, witch or monster hands look like. When they are all done you can write the invitation on the back side.
Halloween craft idea #2: make party invitations for adults
If you are you planning an adult party however, then you should put some more effort in these Halloween craft ideas because every party starts with a great invitation. There are many ways to create great Halloween party invitations but its best to make them personal, they need to be scary and in theme but they also need to say something about the kind of party you are giving. If it is just a social gathering with friends the card should look different then when you are planning a full costume party in your fully decorated haunted house. Can you imagine the Halloween craft ideas you can come up with for the last one?
The author of this article, Kristin King, is a real Halloween lover, at here website Ahead Of Halloween. com she likes to write about aHalloween coloring pages but also about, Halloween images and much more.
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This Easter, create egg-ceptional colorful mod-style Eaters eggs with simple tie-dye and tissue-paper techniques. Decorating Easter eggs has never been easier or less messy than with traditional food-coloring dyes. This project is perfect for art class or to do at home with the kids.
Hands-on time: About 45 minutes per dozen.
Total time: if using vanish, add two hours for drying time.
Skill: Easy, great project for children. (teacher & classroom friendly).
Cost estimate: Only pennies per egg.
Materials & Tools
•Hard-boiled eggs
•Newspapers
•Tea-lights (bases only)
For tie-dye Easter eggs:
•Wax crayons (I recommend Crayola brand, they have the best pigmentation)
•Crayon sharpener
•Small disposable paper plates
•Egg carton container
•Elastic bands (optional)
For tissue-paper Easter eggs:
•Small bowl of water
•Craft tissue paper in assorted colors
•Scissors, to cut out geometric shapes (optional)
•A flat paint brush
•Mod-Podge medium, brush on varnish
Egg safety:
Store eggs in refrigerator until you are ready to use them. Place the eggs carefully in a large pot and add cold water to completely cover the eggs. Over medium heat bring the water to a boil. Cover the pot and turn off the heat. Let the pot sit on the element for 15 minutes, then run the pot of eggs under cold water until the shells are cool and place the eggs in the refrigerator. (Skip the cooling step for the tie-dye egg project).
Tie-dye Easter eggs:
Cover your work area with newspapers. Choose two to three wax-crayon colors, and then sharpen shavings over a small paper or foil plate. (Plastic or Styrofoam plates will melt when they come in contact with the warm eggs). Make a separate plate for each color combination. For example, make a plate with yellow, green, and blue shavings and another plate with pink, purple and orange.
When the hard-boiled eggs are still warm, roll them into the crayon shavings, turning them around a few times. To cool, place the eggs on a tea-light stand or back in the egg carton. The colors will continue to blend and melt together; watch the display of colorful swirls unfold.
Placing elastic bands around some of the eggs before decorating them will create stripes. The unique results will simply amaze your family and friends.
Tissue paper Easter eggs:
Place a small bowl of water (jar lids can also be used) and several squares of tissue paper on your work area. Place eggs on tea-light stands. Scissors can be used to cut out assorted geometric shapes (hand-torn pieces are just as effective).
With a paint brush, dampen the egg and then place many tissue paper shapes over the egg, one at a time, overlapping and moistening as you go. When the egg is fully covered, let it stand for a few minutes.
You now have two options:
1. Remove the tissue paper before it completely dries and you now have enchanting marbleized eggs with the look of egg-dying without using egg dyes.
2. Apply Mod-Podge medium with a paint brush directly onto the still-humid, tissued eggs and let stand to dry. You can apply vanish if you wish once it is completely dried.
You now have very groovy colorful Easter eggs ready for a hip décor theme.
Tips
•You can also decorate the above Easter eggs with hollow eggs. Poke a small hole with a clean pin or small nail, in the narrow end of a raw egg, make a slightly larger hole at the other end. Hold the egg over a bowl and blow through the small hole. The egg’s liquid should slowly seep out of the opened end. Rinse the eggshells carefully and set aside to dry. Make scramble eggs or a quiche with the egg-yolks.
•Be sure to keep the decorated eggs refrigerated until you are ready to hide them or make your centerpiece decorations. These are decorative eggs, they are not meant for consumption.
•Should you dye your eggs with traditional or natural food dyes, I recommend wearing plastic gloves to avoid dying your fingers. Eggs decorated with non-toxic coloring dyes are the only eggs you can eat, but not if they are cracked or have been out of the refrigerator for more than 2 hours.
Variations:
•Other egg-cellent ideas and variations: marbleized, striped, sponge painted, speckled, mosaic, pearlized, glazed, decoupage, waxed, batik, antiqued or crackled. Try to decorate some with basic items you can find around your home: sequins, rubber stamps, ribbon and lace remnants, sparkles, glitter glue, tiny seed beads, pasta bits, metallic and regular and felt pens. With a wax crayon, draw a picture like a flower or bunny, write names, or words on the eggs before dying them.
•To keep eggs as decor accents throughout the year, try painting wooden, plaster, rock, or paper maché eggs. To give them an aged look, sprinkle with a dash of salt or flour and squirt with water, let dry, then seal with varnish.
To view more make-it-yourself colorful photos of these Easter egg creations and for more Home and Garden decor projects by Madeleine M Langlois visit www.miycreations.com
maddy@maddylane.com
www.maddylane.com
www.miycreations.com
About the Author:
Madeleine has over 25 years design experience. She studied fashion merchandising and design. The fist part of her career was spent in the fashion industry designing ladies and children’s wear to fashion accessories. Maddy then went on to design giftware products, Christmas decorations, packaging concepts as well as illustrating for Canadian companies. She has even published a bilingual children’s book that she both wrote and illustrated. Maddy’s designer talents, from fashion to decor and her love for crafts has directed her to produce and write ?how-to? step-by-step d?cor articles. For the last five years, Madeleine has been creating innovative home decorative d?cor items for her weekly syndicated ?make-it-yourself? Miy at home articles. Maddy work has is presently featured in Magazines and newspapers.
For more ?Miy? articles and a more detailed artist bio, I invite you to visit my; www.maddylane.com
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This Easter, create egg-ceptional colorful mod-style Eaters eggs with simple tie-dye and tissue-paper techniques. Decorating Easter eggs has never been easier or less messy than with traditional food-coloring dyes. This project is perfect for art class or to do at home with the kids.
Hands-on time: About 45 minutes per dozen.
Total time: if using vanish, add two hours for drying time.
Skill: Easy, great project for children. (teacher & classroom friendly).
Cost estimate: Only pennies per egg.
Materials & Tools
•Hard-boiled eggs
•Newspapers
•Tea-lights (bases only)
For tie-dye Easter eggs:
•Wax crayons (I recommend Crayola brand, they have the best pigmentation)
•Crayon sharpener
•Small disposable paper plates
•Egg carton container
•Elastic bands (optional)
For tissue-paper Easter eggs:
•Small bowl of water
•Craft tissue paper in assorted colors
•Scissors, to cut out geometric shapes (optional)
•A flat paint brush
•Mod-Podge medium, brush on varnish
Egg safety:
Store eggs in refrigerator until you are ready to use them. Place the eggs carefully in a large pot and add cold water to completely cover the eggs. Over medium heat bring the water to a boil. Cover the pot and turn off the heat. Let the pot sit on the element for 15 minutes, then run the pot of eggs under cold water until the shells are cool and place the eggs in the refrigerator. (Skip the cooling step for the tie-dye egg project).
Tie-dye Easter eggs:
Cover your work area with newspapers. Choose two to three wax-crayon colors, and then sharpen shavings over a small paper or foil plate. (Plastic or Styrofoam plates will melt when they come in contact with the warm eggs). Make a separate plate for each color combination. For example, make a plate with yellow, green, and blue shavings and another plate with pink, purple and orange.
When the hard-boiled eggs are still warm, roll them into the crayon shavings, turning them around a few times. To cool, place the eggs on a tea-light stand or back in the egg carton. The colors will continue to blend and melt together; watch the display of colorful swirls unfold.
Placing elastic bands around some of the eggs before decorating them will create stripes. The unique results will simply amaze your family and friends.
Tissue paper Easter eggs:
Place a small bowl of water (jar lids can also be used) and several squares of tissue paper on your work area. Place eggs on tea-light stands. Scissors can be used to cut out assorted geometric shapes (hand-torn pieces are just as effective).
With a paint brush, dampen the egg and then place many tissue paper shapes over the egg, one at a time, overlapping and moistening as you go. When the egg is fully covered, let it stand for a few minutes.
You now have two options:
1. Remove the tissue paper before it completely dries and you now have enchanting marbleized eggs with the look of egg-dying without using egg dyes.
2. Apply Mod-Podge medium with a paint brush directly onto the still-humid, tissued eggs and let stand to dry. You can apply vanish if you wish once it is completely dried.
You now have very groovy colorful Easter eggs ready for a hip décor theme.
Tips
•You can also decorate the above Easter eggs with hollow eggs. Poke a small hole with a clean pin or small nail, in the narrow end of a raw egg, make a slightly larger hole at the other end. Hold the egg over a bowl and blow through the small hole. The egg’s liquid should slowly seep out of the opened end. Rinse the eggshells carefully and set aside to dry. Make scramble eggs or a quiche with the egg-yolks.
•Be sure to keep the decorated eggs refrigerated until you are ready to hide them or make your centerpiece decorations. These are decorative eggs, they are not meant for consumption.
•Should you dye your eggs with traditional or natural food dyes, I recommend wearing plastic gloves to avoid dying your fingers. Eggs decorated with non-toxic coloring dyes are the only eggs you can eat, but not if they are cracked or have been out of the refrigerator for more than 2 hours.
Variations:
•Other egg-cellent ideas and variations: marbleized, striped, sponge painted, speckled, mosaic, pearlized, glazed, decoupage, waxed, batik, antiqued or crackled. Try to decorate some with basic items you can find around your home: sequins, rubber stamps, ribbon and lace remnants, sparkles, glitter glue, tiny seed beads, pasta bits, metallic and regular and felt pens. With a wax crayon, draw a picture like a flower or bunny, write names, or words on the eggs before dying them.
•To keep eggs as decor accents throughout the year, try painting wooden, plaster, rock, or paper maché eggs. To give them an aged look, sprinkle with a dash of salt or flour and squirt with water, let dry, then seal with varnish.
To view more make-it-yourself colorful photos of these Easter egg creations and for more Home and Garden decor projects by Madeleine M Langlois visit www.miycreations.com
maddy@maddylane.com
www.maddylane.com
www.miycreations.com
About the Author:
Madeleine has over 25 years design experience. She studied fashion merchandising and design. The fist part of her career was spent in the fashion industry designing ladies and children’s wear to fashion accessories. Maddy then went on to design giftware products, Christmas decorations, packaging concepts as well as illustrating for Canadian companies. She has even published a bilingual children’s book that she both wrote and illustrated. Maddy’s designer talents, from fashion to decor and her love for crafts has directed her to produce and write ?how-to? step-by-step d?cor articles. For the last five years, Madeleine has been creating innovative home decorative d?cor items for her weekly syndicated ?make-it-yourself? Miy at home articles. Maddy work has is presently featured in Magazines and newspapers.
For more ?Miy? articles and a more detailed artist bio, I invite you to visit my; www.maddylane.com
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Easter is a wonderful holiday, especially for children. Family and friends have a great excuse to get together, and there’s great food and games. The games are key, as Easter is a time of the year that children really look forward to. After all, every year they expect the Easter Bunny to hide eggs, baskets, and/or treats, that they can than go and find.
So with such high expectations, what can we do to keep the kids happy and entertained? Why, games of course! Here is a list of some of the best Easter day games, guaranteed to meet both kids and parents expectations for a wonderful Easter.
The Egg Hunt
As already mentioned above, one of the most anticipated games of Easter is the Egg Hunt. In fact, it doesn’t matter if you have a small home or the weather isn’t cooperating for you to hide the eggs outside. An egg hunt doesn’t actually need a lot of space to still be fun. All you really need is creativity, and a half hour to an hour to play the game.
Just remember when you’re hiding eggs: don’t make the game to difficult! Hide them in easy to reach places, such as under bed or couch pillows, or behind the stuffed animals in a child’s room. This is a great hiding place because these soft toys are safe for children to be around, as stuffed lions, teddy bears, and other plush animals don’t have sharp corners or require kids to climb to get to them. The inside of shoes can also be a really fun hiding place, just make sure that the shoes you put the eggs in aren’t going to be worn, or you may find yourself with a mess! Remember, it’s very important to hide them in places within a child’s reach, because climbing sets them up for a fall, and safety should always be your foremost concern for children.
Also, just because the game is called an “egg hunt” doesn’t mean you have to just stick with eggs. Hide a stuffed rabbit in the home also, and tell them that the Easter Bunny left them a cousin of his to play with. In fact, you can use many things besides eggs. One really popular idea is hiding an Easter basket or baskets. You can fill the basket with candy (chocolate bunny rabbits, jellybeans, etc) and toys, like another stuffed bunny or a plush duckling. If you’ve got several children, and you want to make sure that they each get a basket, put each child’s name on one basket and tell them that they have to find the one that’s for them. This will most certainly be a great start to your Easter holiday!
Easter crafts
After the excitement and chaos of the Egg Hunt, it’s nice to have an activity for the kids that will wind everyone down, which is where doing Easter crafts come in. This is also great because it doesn’t require as much supervision as the egg hunt, and so is a little break for everyone. All you really need is some paper and crayons and the children can create all sorts of Easter related masterpieces. You can even give them some artistic inspiration by creating a display for them to base their pictures on. The display could have painted eggs, some chicks and a bunny.
Then you can make things as structured or unstructured as you’d like. Let them use their imaginations and draw anything they want about Easter, or tell them what do draw, such as painted eggs with chicks cracking through the shell, or a picture of the Easter bunny hiding eggs. You could even turn this into a contest, with the first prize drawing winning the bunny in the display, the second prize winning the chick, and everyone else getting the eggs as a consolidation prize.
The egg hunt and the arts and craft projects are very traditional Easter games, but you can make them more fun than usual by adding plush chicks and a stuffed bunny to motivate the children even more. Remember, there’s a lot you can do to make your Easter holiday one that all the kids will have fond memories of, just follow some of these simple ideas!
To find some great plush chicks, cute baby ducks, fluffy stuffed bunnies and many more plush animals just like the ones in the article visit KCPlush.com. Also, read the second part of the article for more fun activities to have on Easter!
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