Talk to Hobbycraft about the Halloween activities you and your DCs will be doing this year – 3 MNers will win a £100 Hobbycraft voucher NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

The team at Hobbycraft would like to hear about the Halloween arts and crafts activities you’ll be doing with your DCs this year.

Hobbycraft say “As parents ourselves we know what a challenge it can be to keep the kids entertained during the holidays and on a budget. So, for the sake of parents everywhere who are in need of inspiration, we’d love to know you’ll be making with the kids for Halloween”.

So, what crafty spooky Halloween projects will you be doing this year? Do your DCs dress up? And if they do, do you make their costumes? Maybe you paint their faces? Perhaps you bake Halloween treats together?
Whatever you and your DCs will be making this Halloween, Hobbycraft would love to hear about it.

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Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

[AMillionNameChangesLater]

We are making pumpkins.

Well, using orange tissue paper to paper mache over little jars. Then we are going to draw on scary faces and put a fake tea light (one of the electronic ones) in there. It should look good.

[thewomaninwhite]

I am not very crafty to be honest and we are away. Perhaps some paper pumpkins to take with us. The DDs are not keen on very scary stuff so it has to be timid!

[telsa]

Favourite day of the year...we will make costumes and do make up, make jack o lanterns, decorate the house with homemade decs, lots of spooky cooking and preparing games, like apple bobbing.

[3littlerabbits]

Pumpkin carving here - very basic, 2 eyes and a jaggy mouth is about the height of it. Also cutting out silhouettes of cats and bats out of black card and sticking them on purple paper to make spooky pictures. Just like I did in primary school :)

[staverton]

We are having a Halloween party, so there will be a witch cake, witch, pumpkin and eyeball cake pops (see bakerellas website), decorating ghoul cookies.
I have loads of ideas from pinterest- white choc covered banana ghosts,green jelly in oranges decorated like pumpkins. We will be doing a Halloween front door with sugar paper- so it looks like a monster- and loads of decorations.
The children will be in fancy dress, making masks and playing pin the bone on the skeleton
Can't wait!!

[sharond101]

Carving a pumpkin and making up goodie bags with homemade biscuits in is our lot for Halloween.

[TheSpottedZebra]

Pumpkin carving and biscuit cutting for us too.

Plus we'll make spiders out of pompoms and pipe cleaners (old skool) and arranging them on our spiderwebs made of glue soaked wool.
And I have glow in the dark spray paint so might spray something on a big piece of card which can be placed alongside the fence. Possibly.

And apple bobbing.

[BlueEyeshadow]

None at all, but I'm sure we'll make some cards for my Dad's birthday, which is the same day. Does that count?

[Babieseverywhere]

All our kids will get dressed up for Halloween. We will go trick a treating locally for sweeties.

We will be making spooky apples. Dipping apples in Candy Melts with edible glitter.
Also jelly worms...pouring red jelly with gelatin sheets poured into upright straws and leaving them to set.

[BlondeHavingFun]

This is the first year we are celebrating Halloween. Our DS is 3 and we are hosting a family party. We will make strings of bats cut from black card to drape across the ceiling and make some ghosts using balloons, paper mâché and white sheets.

[rupert23]

We will be carving pumpkins and putting the tealights in and putting them on the step outside. we have sweets for trick otr treaters and the little ones will dress up with scary masks

[boptanana]

We will carve pumpkins, make some spiders and ghosts and dress up for trick or treating. Love Halloween

[WiggleGinger]

I look forward to any excuse to get creative and make fun things with DD ages 5.

This year we will be making decorations from pipe cleaners & Pom poms.
Making pumpkin treats from rice crispies, melted marshmallow & orange food colouring.
Plus making treat bags from brown envelopes decorated with all things pumpkin.
We will also create autumnal home decorations including covering leaves in PVA to preserve them & hot gluing them to polystyrene wreath.
I love getting crafty between now and Christmas

[VinoEsmeralda]

Baking witches fingers
Making jelly worms using straws
Hamabeads coaster ( they've made eyeballs so far)

Will avoid trick and treating and be out on the night;)

[ThatsOuchy]

I love pumpkin carving, but it's just a bit dangerous for my two to help (3 and 6, not yet good with knives!). We are going to make trick or treat baskets out of paper mache, paint them pumpkin-orange and paint faces on. Hopefully it will take the focus off Halloween being only about the sweets...

[xalyssx]

I'm running a big Halloween treasure hunt, so my kids are going to help me make fun clues and prizes for it.

[ItsNotEasyBeingGreen]

My DS wants to go trick or treating this year bit I genuinely think no one will open the door to us - we barely get any trick or treaters either. It's a shame because it featured heavily in my childhood (not UK) and it was great, a real family thing.

Anyhow, I've decided we are going to get dressed up, eat sweets and cakes and make spiders and bats and stuff. Pinterest is great for Halloween crafty things to do with children.

[OwlCapone]

When the children were too small for actually carving a pumpkin, I used to give them a Sharpie and let them draw the face they wanted onto a pumpkin. Then I would do the carving, faithfully reproducing their artwork even if I thought it needed improvement

[ProfYaffle]

We love Hallowe'en and always really go for it. We're going to a Hallowe'en show the weekend before, outfits are already planned for the night itself when dh will taken the dc trick or treating. Luckily our local council is putting on a series of free Hallowe'en shows and craft sessions so we'll be going to those.

The main event though are the massive pumpkins we've grown on our allotment. Thanks to the conditions this year we have tons and a handful are massive. We've given some away to friends but kept the best ones for the dc. We're really looking forward to getting cracking on those.

By the way, I am now an expert on pumpkin recipes, my favourite so far is very thin slices, pan fried in olive oil and garlic mixed with walnuts, sour cream and chopped sage. Makes a really lovely pasta sauce.

[glenthebattleostrich]

We will be pumpkin carving, making spiders using a craft kit, pictures, decorating witches hats and having friends around for tea. Tea will be witches fingers (sausages in buns) and spiders (stealing the teacake idea!!) With witches brew (lime cordial)

We love Halloween and decorate the house, trick or treating and all the silliness!

Then DH and I will have a nice dinner as its our wedding anniversary!

[Sparklezz]

This year my daughter can actually appreciate whats going on around her. I know Halloween will scare her so we are keeping it nice and simple for her. We have bought a little glass pumkins we can put tea lights in, we are making some masks so she can scare her nanny and grandad so lots of paints coming out with crepe paper, card and sticky glue. She likes baking with me so we will be making some sticky buns using glaces cherries to look like eyes in an iced round sally lunns and also some basic chocolate moulds for home made chocs as she loves licking the spoon.

[TunipTheUnconquerable]

We have just moved to a spooky old house so we'll be dressing the place up for a Halloween party. The front garden is going to become a graveyard (polystyrene tombstones painted grey) and we'll be hanging a muslin ghost in the stairwell.

And the pumpkins, OF COURSE....

[BorisBaby]

I will not give away my ideas

[helenatkins15]

My Children love Halloween, we will carve a pumpkin and decorate the house all homemade. We will all dress up and go trick and treating

[supermariossister]

we will dress up and go trick or treating the area we live in gets quite into it. me and dp usually get a pumpkin each and see whose is best, he normally wins