Ideas for Homemade Halloween Crafts for Dracula’s Chef

You’d be amazed to discover that your kitchen holds boundless possibilities for making homemade Halloween crafts. Cook up some very unique homemade Halloween crafts projects using simple kitchen materials. Learn how to make different varieties of Jack-O-Lanterns, witch kitchen jars, and Halloween treats.

Not Just Another Jack-O-Lantern

People display the same old boring Jack-O-Lanterns year after year. Wouldn’t it be nice to create something different from the rest? But first, learn how to make the basic Jack-O-Lantern.

First, draw a circular outline around the stem of your pumpkin. Carve out the outline at an angle you have a cone shape under the lid. Twist the lid off the pumpkin. Remove pulp with a knife and scrape insides with a spoon.

Draw your favorite Jack-O-Lantern face or pattern on the pumpkin and cut through the outline. Place a tea candle or flashlight inside.

Knowing the basics of making a traditional Jack-O-Lantern will help you move on to using different vegetables and fruits as homemade Halloween crafts materials. You can use green peppers for goblins, mandarins for mini Jack-O-Lanterns, red peppers for lil’ devils, and melons for pale ghosts.

Witch Kitchen Jars

If you want to add an interesting flavor to your Halloween kitchen with homemade Halloween crafts, the best project would be witch kitchen jars. Your homemade Halloween crafts materials for this project could be endless.

The first step to do is to simply paint the lids with spray paint so the old labels will be covered. Popular colors are black, red, silver and green.

Next, fill the jars with virtually anything in it, such as mushrooms, rice, dried fruits, vegetable roots, and spices. Fill with water.

Once you’ve thought of a name like “Brain Stew” or “Goblin’s Eyeballs”, play around with your Word Processor’s font styles and print your label out on paper.

To make the labels of your witch kitchen jars look aged and old, you can brew tea bags in just-boiled water, remove, and let the tea cool. Pour tea into a spray bottle and spray on your label. Let your label dry on wax paper. Once dry, stick the label on your jar using glue. Brush on varnish if desired. Finish off by tying old-fashioned twine around the neck of the jar.

Halloween Treats

After you’ve made some homemade Halloween crafts, it’s time to cook up real edible Halloween treats! This homemade Halloween crafts project is especially fun to make for kids. All you need are spoons, candy melt and a few other materials for decoration.

Melt according to its instructions. Then dip each spoon into your candy melt, scoop out and lay the melt on parchment paper until it is cool enough to remove. Cover candy with clear cellophane and secure with a ribbon or string.

Cut out an egg carton and paint them on to create fun hats for your candies. Attach yarn to the hats for “hair” and draw on eyes and mouth on the candy plastic with markers. Use green candy melt for witches, white for ghosts, and orange for Jack-O-Lanterns.

Now that you have these few tricks up your sleeves for your homemade Halloween project, think of other things you can find in your kitchen to create something spooky and entertaining!

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Best Eleven Variations on Halloween Arts and Crafts for Kids

Halloween usually conjures up images of strange shapes, dark movie characters and popular animals. These days though, these common figures can be made in more ways than one and using an assortment of different materials. Here are the top eleven variations on the most popular Halloween arts and crafts for kids.

Bats

There’s no need for you to buy plastic bats for Halloween since you can make your own. You can easily cut patterns or two dimensional bats from construction paper or cartolina. Bat Halloween arts and crafts for kids can also be creatively made out of egg cup cartons to hang or out of clothes pins to clip on curtains.

Pumpkins

These days, you don’t have to worry about messy pumpkin carvings anymore. You can easily have pumpkin paper lanterns as Halloween arts and crafts for kids projects. If you don’t like lanterns, you can still make pumpkins out of paper plates, milk containers and construction paper. One other great alternative would be pumpkin baskets made of paper mache.

Witches

Witch Halloween arts and crafts for kids can be made out of paper plates and cardboard. As an alternative, you can create a witch doctor look instead of a western witch by incorporating beaded necklaces and homemade stuffed voodoo dolls.

Spiders

One favorite Halloween arts and crafts for kids is the spider. Spiders can be as simple as construction paper or egg cup carton hangers. They can also be made of pom poms or colored cotton balls.

Vampires

Vampire masks with fangs can be easily made with paper plates. More imposing ornamental life size vampires however can be made out of coat hangers and black garbage bags.

UFO

Aliens and UFOs are not common Halloween figures but stories of alien kidnappings and abduction makes great Halloween tales. Make UFOs out of paper plates that you can hang from the ceiling. You might also want to complement the ships with cookies shaped like stereotypical aliens instead of ginger bread men.

Worms in Cans

Worms in cans can be made of brown crepe paper. They can seem yuckier to the touch though if you use gummy candies and cooked spaghetti.

Ghosts

Ghosts can also come in variations. You can make ghost Halloween arts and crafts for kids made of socks, packing foam, old cloths, crepe paper, helium filled balloons, white painted jars, tissue and clay.

Mummy

Use tissue paper or gauze and wrap it around a jar for a mummified figure. Cut out some eyes from construction paper and stick them on the jars before you put on the tissue so you can have the eyes slightly covered and just peeking.

Cats

What’s Halloween without black cats? Use paper plates to create cat masks or some cotton and crepe paper to create billowing streamers.

Skeletons

White or luminous paint on a black figure would be perfect for the usual skeleton man. You can however create a good looking skeleton with different kinds of pasta.

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The Inside Scoop On Halloween Crafts

The only bad Halloween craft project is the Halloween craft project that takes too long.  You know the ones. The craft projects that have so many steps that you’ve lost the attention of your kids before step 2.  Give these easy Halloween craft ideas a try.  They’re short; they’re sweet; they’re fun and the end results are spooktacular.

Antenna Characters
These adorable characters look great at the top of your automobile antenna.  Hey, if your house is dressed up for Halloween, why shouldn’t your car?  With various Halloween-themed colors of flat fun foam (orange, black, white, green), draw a light outline of a pumpkin, ghost, spider or Frankenstein head, approximately 4-inches tall and 3-inches wide.  Cut out the shapes and with a single hole punch, punch two holes in each shape, one approximately one inch from the top of the shape and another hole approximately one inch from the bottom of the shape.

With glitter glue or permanent markers, decorate the shape with facial features, an outline or anything you’d like.  Allow to dry thoroughly.  Once dried, you can attach to your automobile antenna by placing the antenna through the bottom hole from the back of the shape to the front.  Then place the antenna through the top hole, front to back.  The Antenna Character should be secure and should withstand normal driving conditions.

Halloween Mosaics
Mosaic art using tiles is very popular nowadays.  Kids can duplicate this popular craft using construction paper instead of tiles or glass.  

Prior to gathering the children around the table, cut small squares of various colors of paper, orange, red, blue, yellow, white, black, green, etc.

On a piece of heavy stock, white paper, draw the outline of a pumpkin, Frankenstein or other Halloween character.  

With a small dab of all-purpose glue on the back of each square, kids can mosaic their way to a uniquely creative masterpiece that can be framed and hung on the wall for many Halloween seasons to come.

Pumpkin Painting
In less than one hour, you and your child can create the most adorable pumpkin craft ready to proudly display in your home.  Pumpkin Painting is the perfect activity for little goblins who aren’t old enough to handle the jack-o-lantern carving duties.  

With simple supplies like acrylic paints, markers, newspaper and sealer, kids can paint whimsical, silly faces on their pumpkins.  Or they can paint their favorite cartoon character, Halloween motif or harvest design.  Painted pumpkins do not rot near as quickly as carved pumpkins so it is much more economical to paint pumpkins rather than carving them and it’s also much safer and more hands-on for toddlers since there is no knife involved.

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Pumpkin Carving Patterns and Templates Plus Easy Halloween Crafts and Costumes Made Easy

It’s the time of the year again when kids of all ages don their best Halloween costumes in time for the much anticipated Trick or Treat. Who doesn’t love seeing kids romping around with their bag or container for their prized loot?

Kids and adults alike love preparing for this holiday. Here are a few suggestions on how to make this annual event more fun and exciting for everybody:

Pumpkin Carving Patterns and Templates

Ready to carve your pumpkin? There are hundreds of ways you can design your favorite pumpkin by using pumpkin carving patterns and templates.

Here’s one website I found that features 31 easy to moderate level pumpkin design templates. Carving For Kids pumpkin templates are downloadable stencils designed to make carving your pumpkin easy. You can actually try it for free first, then come back to get the whole set. You can visit their website by clicking the link above.

Free Easy Halloween Crafts and Halloween Costumes

You can easily make your own halloween crafts to wear, decorate or give. Everybody loves homemade stuff. You don’t actually have to spend a lot just to celebrate this holiday season.

The people at FaveCrafts.com are giving away Homemade Halloween Decorations: Blogger Edition 2010 eBook.

Halloween is the perfect excuse to get crafty and decorate your home in DIY style. Their free eBook showcases a collection of 7 homemade Halloween decorations, anyone can create a festive home without spending a bundle on store-bought Halloween decorations. Find ghosts, pumpkins, decorated candy dishes and more Halloween craft projects in Homemade Halloween Decorations: Blogger Edition 2010. All for free. You can find the link to their website below.

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Preschool Easy Crafts- Halloween Ideas

Preschool kids love Halloween! Halloween is a great time to create preschool easy crafts and recipes! Your family can use Halloween preschool easy crafts to decorate your home and make trick-or-treating more entertaining for the neighborhood children. Spooky themed recipes will be a big hit at parties or home.

Here are a Preschool easy craft idea and recipe to make Halloween a hit!

Preschool Easy Crafts – Hand print & Foot print Ghosts

These spooky ghosts will be a hit with your child. Date them for fond memories and watch how your child grows from year to year. These also make great invitations to a Halloween party!

What you need:

Black construction paper
White washable paint
Black marker

Directions: Paint the palm of each child‘s hand with white washable paint. Keeping the fingers and thumb close together rather than spread apart, help the child make hand print on black construction paper.
When the paint is dry, draw on some ghostly faces. The fingers/toes form the bottom of your ghost.

Preschool Recipes – Mummy Dogs

Here is a spooky twist on the classic pigs in a blanket recipe!

What you need:

1 can (8 oz) refrigerated crescent dinner rolls or 1 can (8 oz) refrigerated flaky dough sheet
American cheese slices (2-3)
Package of hot dogs
Cooking spray
Ketchup/mustard to dip in to

Directions:
1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. If using crescent rolls: Unroll dough; separate at perforations, creating 4 rectangles. Press perforations to seal. If using dough sheet: Unroll dough; cut into 4 rectangles.
3. With knife or kitchen scissors, cut each rectangle lengthwise into 10 pieces, making a total of 40 pieces of dough. Slice cheese slices into quarters (1/2 slice cheese, cut in half).
4. Wrap 4 pieces of dough around each hot dog and 1/4 slice of cheese to look like “bandages,” stretching dough slightly to completely cover hot dog. About 1/2 inch from one end of each hot dog, separate “bandages” so hot dog shows through for “face.” On ungreased large cookie sheet, place wrapped hot dogs (cheese side down); spray dough lightly with cooking spray.
5. Bake 13 to 17 minutes or until dough is light golden brown and hot dogs are hot. With mustard, draw features on “face.”
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Bake 15 to 19 minutes.

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