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,

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making jelly worms - set the jelly inside straws

Apart from the obvious pumpkin carving i have bought some thick black card & we have spent ages cutting out silhouettes of ghosts, bats & mice & we are going to stick them all over the windows so the lights shine on them. Another fab idea is to get the carboard bit out of loo roll & cut 2 eye holes & stick some glow sticks in them. On Halloween put them in the trees in the garden & they look like spooky eyes!!

We're attempting paper mache pumpkins this year, it's going to be messy, but I figured it will do less damage to my waistline (DP makes lovely pumpkin spiced cake)

DD is planning on trick or treating as an evil witch, it took a lot of convincing that Elsa wasn't right for Halloween.

I hate halloween so we have a normal party instead. We have lots of treats, sweets, bakes and games including apple bobbing & finish off with a disco. It gets bigger each year as more & more kids want to come.

obviously pumpkin carving is one of our faves , but you can paint leaves white and draw ghostly faces on them. My kids used to love doing that ! Making halloween cards too

We've got loads planned for over half term but highlights are pumpkin carving (obviously) and making jelly worms :)

My kids will carve pumpkins at Holiday Club and their grandparents are coming to stay so they'll bring another from their allotment to carve too. We'll be having a little Halloween party for a couple of their mates and the food will be the same as we have for Halloween every year - Blood Soup (tomato soup), Monkey Brains (baked potatoes with cheese), Dead Men's Fingers (Hot Dogs in rolls) and Murky Pond Water with dead goldfish (green jelly with mandarin segments in it).
We'll probably make some decorations and I've ordered some plastic spiders from Amazon to put in the trick or treat stuff I'll have ready by the door.

Pumpkin carving is about as far as we get in this house, although we do really love making faces in the pumpkins!

We do pumpkin carving and also make spooky shaped biscuits!

Great ideas. We normally butcher a pumpkin and dress up!

We will make pumpkin cupcakes decorated with bats and ghosts

We will carve pumpkins, which usually end up in a disaster, i.e. the face looks more aloof or gormless than scary.

I also saw this neat thing on FB I want to try, where you rubber0band a bunch of bendy straws together and stand them up in a jar/glass and then pour jelly in, let them set and use warm water to "release" the jelly, and they look just like wiggly worms! My boys would love it!

We have cut out orange card pumpkins to decorate, are making silhouettes of spooky houses and will carve a pumpkin and dress up. Barbie has her own satsuma pumpkin.

we made lantern and bats banner!

My little boy has just turned 2 so he's a little young to understand yet, but he is dressing up as a pumpkin and having his face painted before we pop to a couple of neighbours for trick or treat.

The best Halloween activities are a great tradition in our family:- grape on a flour mountain-put a grape on a heap of flour, each take turns in taking a bit from the side using a spoon the 1st one to make the grape fall has to pick it up using their mouth. Finding the sixpence in the apple pie as a tribute to my mum. Hanging an apple from the door fare and trying to take a bite out if it. Living in Northern Ireland in the late 70's we could only have indoor fireworks!! They were amazing

My kids too young to carve a pumpkin but last year we decorated ours with glitter glue and was such a success we'll do that same this year

We will be having three days of Halloween, we are not witches honest!, We will be doing lots of crafts for decorations, we are going to a Halloween tea on the Wed and will take cakes that we have made, on Thursday we will be having a party that I daftly organised and has got out of hand and had to hire a hall (I know, I know) and will be making decorations for that and then all of the kids where we live trick and treat on Halloween as it is a small semi rural place and our lovely friends will join us, so again more pumkin carving and decorations, ...HELP ME! (grin)

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Bats made from lolly sticks coloured with black paint or black colouring pen with wings stuck on (cut out by children) and little goggly eyes glued on.

We make simple witches for unkind DC using 2 black paper triangles and a green paper circle.
Stick together with glue.
Draw on a face.
Stick pipe cleaver hair on- look really effective.

My 2 are a little young for trick and treating but we will each be making Halloween hats. I have black paper. glitter and foam shapes at the ready!

Mummy candle jars are excellent and can be used year on year - we've had ours for a few years now.

You need empty glass food jars, long strips of white material 1-2 inches wide (the instructions I used said muslin but we used an ancient net curtain) and flour and water mixture. Dip strips of material in flour/water mixture and wind round the jar to cover. Add a face when dry (it takes a while and it dries much quicker outdoors in the wind) with scraps of black paper).

Wide necked jars work better (I think there's a better oxygen supply for the candle) but it looks good to have an assortment of shapes and sizes even if some burn better than others.

Dead easy but I definitely recommend doing the flour and water stage outside as it's very messy.

Put a tealight inside and treat safety-wise like a lit pumpkin.

Stickers and spooky houses and ghost trees