Halloween preparations

 

This week I spent an enjoyable time preparing for Halloween. I made decorations and bought treats for my nephew and for our community Fright Night. 

I made the Halloween pop-up-card in the photo above, for my nephew using a free template from the Canon Creative Park website. It uses quite a bit of printer ink, but luckily I had plenty.

The design is quite intricate with a lot of pieces to cut out, arrange and glue down. It took me a day and a half to make. I tested the pop-up-ability of the components after glueing each part together, and the card worked very well! There was also a template for a spooky envelope to put the card in.

I filled 3 little printed packages with Halloween sweets. I made the paper for the packages using templates from the same website as the pop-up-card. These were put in a box with the card and some origami bats that I also made, and then couriered them to my nephew. The package arrived the next day and was liked very much which made my day.

Our community Fright Night is going to be held on the Saturday after Halloween this year, rather than on the 31st of October which is a school night. This will give me plenty of time to set up the decorations in the morning.

I made more paper decorations to add to last years collection. All the templates were free to print from the internet, making crafting so much easier and cheaper. I made spiral paper ghosts, a Halloween banner and more 3D paper pumpkins.

These spiral paper ghosts are almost finished. I just need to add small weights to the ends of the tails to open up the spirals. Then I will add some string to hang the ghosts by. I printed them using photopaper to make them stronger.

This Shabby-chic Halloween banner was really easy to make. Just print, cut out and glue onto some string.

These are the small paper Jack-o'-lanterns that I am going to hang on the plant by the front door.

I will be putting plastic spiders around the front door mat like last year. Nothing too scary as I have registered our house as a safe house again this year. We could choose whether to be a safe house or a scare house so that the younger children don't get frightened. The teenagers prefer the scary houses, but still come to the safe houses for treats lol.

I have filled a large basket with Halloween-themed sweets. The Fright Night organisers are also going to share out sweets to safe houses which have been donated by the Fright Night sponsors, so there will be plenty of goodies for the children.

We are hoping for dry weather for the event in just a week. It was perfect last year 🎃🦇👻

Will you be doing anything for Halloween this year?

 

See you again soon. 

Hugs, Rose x

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun early Halloween, called "Fright Night" on Saturday evening. 

Dozens of houses in our village were set up for the children in the neighbourhood to go trick or treating. We registered as a safe house where the younger children could come trick or treating. Others set up spooky houses for the older children. Then afterwards the children went to watch the film Beetlejuice at the village hall.

I was on a very tight budget, so spent most of it filling a basket with halloween-themed sweets and plastic spider rings. These were placed on a chair that I draped with a metre of black tulle that was decorated with ghosts.

Then I made paper decorations, both 3-D and 2-D, which I found free downloads for online on the Canon Creative Park website. I had great fun with scissors and glue making them.

The decorations were hung on the plant growing in a pot on the front doorstep. And the Halloween picture, that I printed and cut out, was taped to the front door.

I bought a length of glittery orange spider web patterned wired ribbon and decorated the basket and the plant with it. Plus I bought lots of plastic spiders and spread them around the front door.

I dressed up in black and white and wore a large floppy purple witches hat that I bought for $9 at a party shop.

Lots of children visited our house in groups with their parents. One boy said ours was the best house :o) I think that may have been because I let the children have a spider ring as well as sweets! 

One child asked if he could have a big spider, so I said yes, and he put his sweets back in the basket and took a spider lol. I tried to tell him that he could also keep his sweets, but he was too excited about the big spider. It was so cute.

The village that I lived in before didn't have children doing trick or treat because all the houses were on large blocks of land and were spaced far apart down long driveways. Instead they held a party at the local village hall for the children each Halloween.

This is the first time that I have experienced trick or treat at Halloween. Mum and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, I think as much, if not more, than the children.

Do you do anything at Halloween?

See you again soon.

Hugs, Rose