Halloween Pumpkin- Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Make your own Halloween Pumpkin to stick on the wall or tu use as a Halloween decoration. Will yours be a traditional orange, Or a colour that shows your personality?  We’d love to see what you have done with your Halloween Pumpkins so share a photo with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more fun, check out our Classes running across the UK. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

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Halloween Countdown- Spooky Ghost Mask

Make your own Halloween Ghost mask to complete your child’s costume this Halloween. We’d love to see how you have decorated your Halloween ghost masks so share a photo with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more fun, check out our Classes, running across the UK. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

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How To Make A Children’s Spooky Halloween Lantern

Get creative with this fun activity for you and your family this Halloween, even tiny hands can help. Create the Halloween lantern using different colours and shapes to create different silhouettes on your jar. Hang them outside to wow the trick-or-treaters, or use this as a spooky decoration inside your home. Fill the jar with sweets, instead of a candle, to store your Halloween treats. You can use these materials to create a lantern to celebrate other events and seasons such as Diwali or Christmas.

This activity develops your child’s fine motor skills, shape recognition, colour recognition, and role-play skills.

For one jar you will need:

  • Plastic Jar
  • Sequins
  • Paint
  • Paint Brush
  • Glue
  • Glue Stick

 

Spooktacular Jokes and facts:

Q: What is a ghost’s favourite food?

Ice-Scream.

 Q: Why did Dracula have no friends?

Because he is a pain in the neck.

 Q:  How do witches style their hair?

They use Scare Spray

 

Did you know?

  • Original trick-or-treaters mostly got given fruits and nuts, not sweets
  • The first Jack O’ Lanterns were made out of turnips
  • It is believed that if you see a spider on Halloween it is the spirit of a loved one watching over you
  • Pumpkins are not only orange but can grow to be blue, white or green
  • Did you know that over 90% of parents steal their children’s Halloween sweets! Keep the sweets hidden!

 

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Halloween Countdown- Goody Bags

Make your very own waterproof goody bag to carry all of your discoveries that you find on autumn walks. Why not include some leaves in the layers of your bag and try to find the same shapes on your walk.

This goody bag is also a great idea for Halloween! Are you going trick or treating this year? Why not make your very own goody bag to carry all of your treats, you could even make one to match your costume. photo6

You will need:

  • Cling Film
  • Collage materials: Tissue Paper, Cellophane, Paper, Feathers, Leaves
  • Sequins
  • Cellotape
  • Scissors

Step 1 

Cut a length of cling film roughly 60cm long.

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Step 2

Sprinkle the collage materials onto the cling film, don’t put everything in at once as you will be creating layers to make your bag strong enough to hold lots of treats.

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Step 3

Cut another piece of cling film and place over the top of your previous piece, this should hold all the decorations in place.

Step 4

Repeat steps 2 and 3 another 4 times. You should end up with 6 layers of cling film.

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Step 5

Once you have added all the decorations you want to your bag. Fold over the edges to create a neat seam and keep all the decorations in place.

Step 6

Fold the whole thing in half like a book, then cellotape along the side and along the bottom. You will need to fold the cellotape over the two sides of the bag. Put your hand inside the bag to check for any holes.

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Step 7

Create a handle by cutting 30cm of cling film. Along one edge place some decoration, fold over approx. 3cm.  Add some more decorations along the fold and fold again, repeat this until you have run out of cling film. This should then be strong enough to form a handle.

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Cellotape the two ends of the handle to the inside of the bag, make sure it is secure so that you don’t lose all of your goodies.

 

Your bag is now finished and ready to hold all your amazing goodies, whether it be leaves and conkers or yummy surprises from Halloween.

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We’d love to see what you have done with your Halloween Goodie Bags so share a photo with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more Halloween fun, check out our Play-Doh Squishy and Squashy Spooky Classes, running across the UK from 17th – 28th October. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

Halloween Countdown- Pasta Skeleton

Build your own spooky skeleton with dried pasta and create your own crazy creatures.

You will need:

  • Black card
  • PVA Glue
  • An assortment of dried pasta

Using PVA glue stick the pieces of pasta onto black card to create your skeletons. You could build an entire body or focus on close-ups of different parts of the skeleton.

Can you guess what different parts of the body these images are?

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lbow

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Answers- A: Skull B: Arm and hand C: Spine and ribs

We’d love to see what you have done with your Halloween Skeletons so share a photo with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more Halloween fun, check out our Play-Doh Squishy and Squashy Spooky Classes, running across the UK from 17th – 28th October. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

Halloween Countdown – Spooky Silhouettes

Looking for a fun way to decorate the outside of your house for Halloween with your children?

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Why not try cutting out lots of crazy monsters out of black sugar paper. You can then use blue tack or sellotape to stick them to the inside of your windows. See how many people you can spook.

Why not try hanging tissue paper or crepe paper behind so no one can see who is home!

We’d love to see what you create for your windows so share a photo of your spooky silhouettes with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more Halloween fun, check out our Play-Doh Squishy and Squashy Spooky Classes, running across the UK from 17th – 28th October. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

Halloween Countdown- How To Make A Children’s Halloween Lantern

Make your own Halloween lantern for walking around trick-or-treating, a decorative door light to guide the way for other trick-or-treaters or use as a sweets jar to store your uneaten sweets once you’ve had your spooktacular night. We’d love to see what you have done with your Halloween lanterns so share a photo with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your photos.

If you’re looking for more Halloween fun, check out our Play-Doh Squishy and Squashy Spooky Classes, running across the UK from 17th – 28th October. Find out more by commenting on this blog post, looking up your closest Creation Station on our website, or calling us on 01395 239 700.

 

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Day #39 Happy Halloween!

sara le rouxby Sara le Roux,  Owner and Inspirer at The Creation Station Penistone and District

I love Halloween and can’t wait to start going ‘Trick or Treating’ with Boo next year.

For now we’ll get dressed up and race to the front door each time the bell goes (which is many, many, times where we live!)

This year Izzy will be big enough to join us giving out treats and watching from the window as everyone goes by.

To make things extra spooky this year I decided that our activity today would be to decorate our front door.   There are no instructions – simply raid your craft stash and create some spooky Halloween fun!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Activity Time: 10 minutes

Day #39 DONE! 61 to go!

Sara x

Day #38 Spooky Fun…Out And About

sara le rouxby Sara le Roux,  Owner and Inspirer at The Creation Station Penistone and District

Well I had today’s activity all planned out but things got all turned upside down – in the nicest possible way!

We made a last minute decision to go to our local ‘Rhythm and Rhyme’ session as they were having a special Halloween party.  Boo really does not like singing at all and generally puts his hands over his ears whenever anyone starts up…..but not Izzy….she LOVES LOVES LOVES!! anything musical and as soon as she hears a tune will start wiggling around like one of those dancing sunflowers that we all used to have as kids.  So….since we are going to a ‘Meet The Creepy Crawly’ session tomorrow – Boo will probably squeal the place down in happiness – I managed to convince him that we should also do something nice for Izzy today – plan agreed and off we went!

When we got there we found all sorts of creative things going on!!

Halloween Themed Colouring – you could also download some FREE Halloween colouring sheets from HERE

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Pumpkin Play Doh

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Decorate Your Own Spooky Biscuit – and hopefully finish it before Boo eats it!

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All this creativity and a lovely Halloween themed singing session to boot….with Izzy’s favourites….the instruments!

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Wow! A whole morning of creativity!

We were all tuckered out by the time we got home and possibly had ‘make’ overload today!

Time for naps I think!

Day #38 DONE! 62 to go!

Sara x

Day #33 Lovely Lollysticks

by Sara le Roux,  Owner and Inspirer at sara le rouxThe Creation Station Penistone and District

Boo has always enjoyed making things to give to other people, so today I thought it would be nice to make a photo frame to go into our Christmas present box…

What You’ll Need

  • Craft lolly sticks – at least 4
  • Hot glue gun / double-sided sticky tape
  • PVA glue & spreader – this could also be used to stick the frame together
  • Decoration – gemstones, buttons etc

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There was nooooo way I was letting Boo near a hot glue gun (yet!) so I prepped the lolly stick frame for him.  You could also use double-sided sticky tape to fix the lolly sticks together if you don’t have access to a glue gun.

Boo sat with his decorations and happily worked away glueing items to the frame and sometimes adjusting things when he changed his mind.

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After it has finished drying we will just need to add some ribbon onto the back of the frame and find a nice photo to stick behind it!

Ta Dah!

Fabulous Frames!

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Activity Time: 10 minutes

Day #33 DONE! 67 to go!

Sara x