Winking Pumpkin Carving Template

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Winking Pumpkin Carving Template
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How to Carve a Pumpkin!

To make a cool carved pumpkin this Halloween you will need a pumpkin (evenly shaped and medium size), a design to carve, tape, a nail, a potato peeler, a paring knife, a larger knife, newspaper, and a solid large spoon. You will also need an adult to help you with the carving.

To begin, wash your pumpkin with a little soap and water and then pat it dry. Next spread out a lot of newspapers covering your whole pumpkin carving area.

The first thing you want to do is to take the top of the pumpkin off. Take your larger knife, insert it in the top of the pumpkin with a slight angle towards the center, and cut around the stem. Cutting the top this way you will have a top piece which is wider at the top then the bottom and won't fall in. Next scrape out the insides of the pumpkin with your solid large spoon. Be sure to get all the strings and seeds out, and scrape the walls of the pumpkin so they are thinner, rather than thicker.

Now take your design and transfer it to your pumpkin. If you have the design on paper, tape it to the pumpkin. Then take a nail and poke holes through the paper into the pumpkin to create the design on the surface of the pumpkin. Once you have finished doing this, take your paring knife and connect the dots!

Now you are ready to carve your pumpkin. Be sure to have an adult do this part! and always have them carve the pumpkin with the knife cutting away from themselves! Start carving your pumpkin by carving in the middle of each feature and then pushing the carved pieces into the pumpkin and then removing them.

Once you are finished carving, you can also add some fun props to your pumpkin! Consider adding hats, scarves, painted features, etc. Have Fun! Enjoy Crafting! Happy Halloween!

Lollipop Ghosts

Today's Craft:

Lollipop Ghosts

Craft Project Directions:
To make these simple ghosts you will need lollipops, white tissue, pipe cleaners, and markers or stickers. Take your pipe cleaners and cut them in half.

Now take your lollipop, drape the tissue over it, and fasten the tissue in place by tightening a pipe cleaner around it underneath the candy.

Now add a spooky or funny face to your ghost!

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Crafting!
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Alien Pumpkin Carving Template

Alien Pumpkin Carving Template

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Cool Bat Puppets

Today's Craft:

Cool Bat Puppets

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project yo will need a black paper bag, black and white construction paper, scissors, glue or tape, and crayons or markers.

To begin, using the template provided below, cut out wings for your bat.

Next cut out two black triangles for ears, two white triangles for fangs, and two white circles for eyes. Take your paper bag and flip it over so the bottom of the bag is facing up. This will be the face of bat.

Glue the wings on the back of the bag so they stick out on either side. Add your bat's ears, eyes, teeth, and then decorate further if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Adorable Bat

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Adorable Bat

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a black cup, some black construction paper, scissors, and either some colored stickers or pieces of colored construction paper, and glue.

To begin, cut out a batwing using the template provided below.

Glue it onto the back of the cup- use the picture as a guide.

Now add a cute bat face with stickers or glue on pieces of colored paper. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Painted Gourds

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Painted Gourds

Craft Project Directions:
To make painted gourds you will need some gourds, mild soap, poster paint, kitchen cleanser, paper cups, and a paintbrush.

To begin wash your gourds with mild soap and water. Let them dry completely.

Next mix a little kitchen cleanser with poster paints in your paper cups. Paint away!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Pumpkin Prints!

Today's Craft:

Pumpkin Prints!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need an apple, some paper towels, white paper, orange paint, and other colored paints.

To begin take your apple and cut it in half lengthwise. Blot it with a paper towel and let it dry a bit. Now paint the cut side of the apple with your orange paint and then press it onto a sheet of white paper. Let your print dry.

Add a pumpkin or jack o'lantern face to your pumpkin print with your other paints.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Friendly Scarecrow Face

Today's Craft:

Friendly Scarecrow Face

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project, you will need 8 large craft sticks, orange, brown, and black paint, a paintbrush, and glue.

To begin lay out 5 craft sticks next to one another and glue two craftsticks horizontally across them to secure them together- this will be the back of your scarecrow. Let dry and flip over.

Now glue one craft stick horizontally across the front about a third of the way down from the top- this will become the brim of your scarecrow's hat- use the picture as a guide.

Now you are ready to paint your scarecrow. Paint the face brown, the hat orange, and then add a cute face. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Pumpkin Garlands

Today's Craft:

Pumpkin Garlands

Craft Project Directions:

Take a piece of orange construction paper and cut a 3 inch by 12 strip. Next fold up the piece of paper accordian style 6 times.

Now on the top piece of paper draw a pumpkin- any shape you want, with or without a stem.

Just make sure the widest parts of the pumpkin go beyond the folded edges of the paper.

Next cut out your pumpkin, through all the folded layers of paper, except for the parts that touch the fold. Open up your pumpkin garland and add all sorts of pumpkin faces!

Enjoy Crafting!
Happy Halloween!
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Collecting Leaves

Today's Craft:

Collecting Leaves

Craft Project Directions:
Collecting is fun. One thing that is particularly fun to collect is leaves. Leaves come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. There are 1000s of different kinds of trees with leaves to collect.

You can start you collection by taking two leaves from each tree in your yard or neighborhood. If you have two leaves, you can display both the front and back side of a particular type of leaf.

When you go leaf collecting, take a book or magazine with you and insert the leaves into the pages so they don't bend and curl up.

When you get home, you will want to press your leaves. To do this you will need newspaper, paper, and heavy books. Take one leaf, place it on a piece of paper, put another piece of paper over it, put a couple piece of newspaper over them. Continue this process until you have covered all your leaves and then put your heavy books on top of it all.

Leave it alone for about a week. Then unwrap the leaves and mount them on colored paper with glue or tape and label them.

You can get a guide book to leaves and trees at your local public library to help you. You can also make all sorts of neat crafts with leaves. For ideas, Click Here.

Enjoy Crafting!

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Today's Craft:

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft you will need: orange and green crayons, a pencil sharpener, waxed paper, an iron, an adult, and some string.

To start sharpen your orange and green crayons and collect all of the scrapings. Lay out a piece of waxed paper and first sprinkle the orange scrapings onto it in the shape of a pumpkin.

Next sprinkle the green scrapings on the top of pumpkin to make a pumpkin stem. Cover your creation with a second sheet of waxed paper. Now ask an adult to help you iron the waxed paper (on medium to low heat) until the crayon shavings melt together. It should take between 5 and 10 seconds.

Cut out your pumpkin from the waxed paper and hang it by a string in the window.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Sweet Apple Bookmarks

Today's Craft:

Sweet Apple Bookmarks

To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, crayons,a colorful pipe cleaner, a colorful pom-pom, glue and other materials to decorate your beautiful AppleBookmark.

To begin select a colorful pipe cleaner. This will become your cute Book Worm. Bend one end of itinto a tear drop shape and set it aside.Next take a piece of red construction paper and cut out three or four small red apple shapes.You could also cut out yellow or green apples. You decide!

Now cut out small green oval or diamond shaped leaves for the tops of your apples. glue or tape
them on to the tops of the apples. Decorate the apples more with crayon if you want. Now thread the pipe cleaner Book Worm through the apples so the curved tear drop part ends up on top.Next cover the curved tear drop part with glue. Select a colored pom-pom for the head of your Book Worm and press it into the glued pipe cleaner. Let your bookmark dry and then put it to work!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Lovely Leaf Print Projects

Today's Craft:

Lovely Leaf Print Projects

Craft Project Directions:
Do you love Fall? Save a bit of season when you make some spectacular leaf creations you can use throughout the year. You can make wonderful leaf prints and decorate all sorts of things: apple picking bags, t-shirts, wrapping paper, cards, and more!

To make your leaf print creation, you will need leaf stamps, fall colors: brown, green, and red paint (fabric paint to use on fabric), newspaper, a paintbrush, and the item you want to decorate.

Lay out newspaper for a work space for your self. Next take some newspaper and place it inside your bag or t-shirt if that is what you are making so your prints won't seep through to the other side. Take the brown paint and paint a tree stem and some branches. Let them dry.

Now you are ready to add the leaves. Cover your leaf stamp with red paint and then with other fall colors. Press it on your picture adding leaves all over your tree. Let it dry and you will have a special leaf creation.

Enjoy Crafting!
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