Weekend Wonders: Fall and Halloween Printables

You know I love some good printables and I have seen a lot of great ones in the blogosphere lately so I thought I'd share some of them with you this weekend. 

Fall Bucket List

 Funky Polkadot Giraffe shares this cute and fun fall bucket list printable.

Autumn Owlie Banner

Inspired by Peanut and Bean shares this adorable owl themed autumn banner.

Fall Subway Art

Smile Like You Mean It shares this fun fall themed subway art.

Fall Quote Printable

The Letter Four shares this cute printable featuring a fall themed quote.

Halloween Hershey Kisses Labels

Crystal and Co. shares these adorable printable labels for the bottoms of Hershey Kisses.

Trick or Treat Cuties

Stay at Home Artist shares this adorable trick or treat printable. You could frame it or even use it in a card. Too cute!

Halloween Subway Art

Smile Like You Mean It shares this fun Halloween subway art printable.

Halloween Candle Wrappers

Just print these candle wrappers from Mr. Printables then wrap them around some glass candle holders and you have instant Halloween decor.

Along Came a Spider

The Diary of Dave's Wife shares this cute spider themed printable. 

Crafts from Halloweens Past

I thought I'd do a round up of some of the Halloween crafts I have done the past couple of years. Lots of good stuff! 

Halloween Wreaths

Halloween Matchbook Treats 

Halloween Bubbles

Frankenstein Candy Bar

Halloween Candle Holder Ensemble

Witch Hat

Halloween Pencil Treats

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Not So Scary Houses Display

I am a little behind in posting some of my Halloween things this year since I have been so sick recently but better late than never.

My style of Halloween decorating is more cutesy than scary .

One of my favorite pieces of my Halloween decor are my "not so scary Halloween houses." 

I made the little houses a few years back by decorating wooden bird houses I purchased at Michael's. They sit together on a side table in our living room. 

This year, I added "creepy cloth" that I found at the Dollar Tree to the display and love it. 

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Halloween 2011

Noah didn't want to dress up in a costume this year but he did request an orange t-shirt with a spider web and purple spider. I was happy to oblige and freezer paper stenciled a t-shirt for him last week.

He had a Halloween Dance at school this afternoon so he wore it to school today. 

And check out his socks - 

He loved them and had to put them back on with his jammies!

J had to work tonight so Noah and I just handed out candy to trick or treaters and watched Halloween specials on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. 

Hope you all have/had a safe night!

Halloweens Past

Since it's Halloween I thought I'd share some photos from past Halloween's......
(Obviously this isn't all the years but it's the ones that the photos were easily accessible for.)

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great and safe Halloween!

Quote of the Week: Costumes

"Clothes make a statement - 

Costumes tell a story." 

~ Mason Cooley

Spider Pumpkins

Noah and I made these last weekend as part of the decorations for his spider/Halloween themed birthday party. Well, actually I did most of the work and he just watched and babbled to me. Oh and I sang Itsy Bitsy spider. A LOT!

These were simple to make. You just need a small pumpkin, 4 black piper cleaners, and some black vinyl. Or you could just use black cardstock instead of vinyl.

I cut the pipe cleaners in half and then used a kitchen knife and made a small "X" where I wanted each pipe cleaner to go. I pushed the pipe cleaner in and then bent the bottom part of the pipe cleaner to make the feet.

I used my 3/4 inch circle punch and punched 3 circles out of the vinyl. Then I cut into 2 of those circles a little bit to create eyes. I peeled off the backing and let Noah bang pat down the eyes and mouth and that was it!

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Witch Hat

Last year I really wanted a witch hat for my Halloween mantle but I never found/made one in time so back at the end of August when I saw these paper mache witch hats at Michael's, I grabbed one.

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At first, I was going to decoupage Halloween themed scrapbook paper onto the hat but then I decided I wanted something more subtle and plain. So I painted the hat black with acrylic paint and then when it dried, brushed on a layer of glitter paint to give it some sparkle.

Then I made a satin flower, wrapped some ribbon around the bottom of the hat and glued the satin flower on.

 Simple and cute!

Now it sits on my mantle with my little witch and the "spells" book I made last year. 

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Halloween Pencil Treats

Here's another non-edible Halloween treat for the kiddos! 

Halloween Pencils and Erasers

These are super quick to put together and inexpensive to make. 

You will need: 

Halloween Pencils and Erasers (I got mine at The Dollar Tree.) 

Pretzel Bags (Long and skinny cello bags found in the cake decorating section at the craft store.) 

Sticky strip or some type of adhesive

Halloween themed scrapbook Paper 

Regular Tape

Scissors or Paper Trimmer

What You will Do:

1. Cut your scrapbook paper into strips that are 10 1/2 inches long and 2 inches wide. These measurements should hold 3 pencils - if you want it to hold more than 3 pencils, you will need to adjust the width.

2. Fold your strips in half. 

3. Put sticky strip on one half as close to the edges of each side as you can get. It should look like something like this:

4. Peel off the backing on the sticky strips and then fold the paper to close it. You should now have a little pouch for your pencils to slide into. 

5. Slide your pencils in. I find it easier to put one pencil in first and kind of work it around a little bit to get it loose and then add the other 2 pencils. 

6. Slide the pencil pouch into the cello bag and then slide in the eraser on top of the pencil pouch. I did not use tape or anything on the erasers and they did slide around a lot in the bags so next time I make these, I may put a small piece of sticky strip on the back of the eraser to hold it in place. 

7. Fold the bag over and close it with a small piece of regular tape. You could also close it with a cute Halloween sticker or label. 

  And now you have a practical Halloween treat!

  

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Halloween Bubbles

Are you looking for a Halloween treat that isn't food or a treat for younger kids? If so, I have the perfect little Halloween treat for you!

Halloween Bubbles!

What you'll need:
Bubbles (Found in the wedding section at craft stores and even the Dollar Store. I got a box of 8 bottles of bubbles for $1.00.)
Halloween scrapbook paper
Coordinating Ribbon
Some type of adhesive such as glue dots, sticky strip, or double sticky tape
3/4 inch circle punch
Pop Dots
Halloween Stickers printable from Be Different Act Normal

What you'll do:
1. Cut your paper into strips that will wrap around the bottle of bubbles. My strips are 1 1/4 inches wide by 5 1/4 inches tall.
2. Wrap the paper around the bottle of bubbles and secure with adhesive. I used double sticky tape.
3. Print these free Halloween stickers onto white cardstock. Punch out the ones you want to use (I only used the ones that say "boo")  using the circle punch and then adhere them to the bubbles with a pop dot to add some dimension.
4. Lastly, tie some ribbon around the top of the bubble bottle.

Easy peasy and cute!

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Frankenstein Candy Bar

I had some major computer issues last week and didn't get to share all I had planned to share with you so this week I'll be sharing some of the Halloween treats I have recently made.

First up, is this cute little Frankenstein. He is covering a Hershey's chocolate bar.

So cute! I heart Frank.

To make him, you will need:
Candy bar(s) (I used a 1.55 oz Hershey bar. You could use any size candy bar really, you'd just need to adjust the size of the paper and the circle punches.)
Regular Tape
Double Sticky Tape (another type of adhesive such as Sticky Strip would also work)
Green Cardstock
Black Cardstock
White Cardstock
Black Sharpie
3/4 inch circle punch
1/2 inch circle punch

Once you have all your supplies gathered:
1. Tape down the ends of your candy bar.
2. Cut your green cardstock to 6 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches tall.
3. Wrap the cardstock around the candy bar securing with the double sticky tape.
4. To create his hair, I cut out grass using my Silhouette machine but you could also just free hand zig zags onto the black cardstock and cut that out. It doesn't need to look perfect.
5. Punch out 2 circles from white cardstock with the 3/4 inch circle punch.
6. Punch out 2 circles from black using the 1/2 inch circle punch.
7. Adhere the black circles to the white circles. I just ran them through my Xyron machine but you could easily do this with glue dots, double sticky tape, a glue stick, etc.
8. Adhere the eyes to the candy bar. Again, I used my Xyron machine to do this.
9. Cut out 2 circles from the same green cardstock using the 3/4 inch half punch. Cut the circles in half and adhere 2 of them to the top of the eyes to create his eye lids and then adhere the other one underneath the eyes to create his nose.
10. Using your black Sharpie, draw a zig zaggy mouth and two little squiggles on his cheeks.

Now you have a cute little treat for friends, family, co-workers, etc!

Check back tomorrow, I'll be sharing a non-edible Halloween treat!

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