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.

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw, where three Mumsnetters will each receive a £100 Hobbycraft voucher.
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Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

This Halloween we will be mostly baking up some scary treats - just bought a super little spider cookie cutter and I can see a lot of fun will be had making and decorating these little darlings and trying to scare daddy :)

I will be carving a pumpkin, face painting and making bats with my four year old.

We LOVE Halloween in our house! Of course, there is the pumpkin carving and this year the kiddos have opted for a Minecraft and Doc McStuffins theme. (Traditionalists, we are not :) ) We've also already made a start on some fun Halloween paper crafts and will continue with these throughout half term. I've shared these over on my blog: onebusywahm.com/tag/halloween-craft/ Nearer the time, we will also enjoy some baking, getting the house decorated and costumes, too. Can't wait!

I watched the Mumsnet video and we did an adapted version of ghost-bunting - I used kitchen roll screwed into balls to stuff inside for the head and kitchen roll over the top for the ghosty bit.

I'm not a big fan of halloween, but making spooky cupcakes is always fun.

I have a teen but we love dressing up and frightening the local children.

Make shadow puppets out of cardboard for the street facing windows... Eyes which blink, skeleton arms which tremble etc

Dclike to receive trick/treaters as much as going trick/treating, so it's nice to show people they're coming to the right door!

We are making pumpkin collages, I have cut out pumpkin shapes so my daughter can stick different things on it. I have also printed out some bat shapes and attached them to black card, she will then paint all over the card in different colours - once the bats are removed the bat shapes will still be there and the rest of the card in different colours. My three year old has asked to do some baking tomorrow so I have purchased orange food die and we are going to try and make pumpkin cupcakes.

Using black playdough on the pumpkin to make funny faces! So much easier than messing about with carving tools and means that even the littlest can play too :)

spider cupcakes.
egg box spiders
hankie ghosts.
carve pumpkins,
print off colour sheets.

Halloween is a difficult subject in our house as, because we are a Christian family, we do not celebrate Halloween. This never used to be a problem, but as so many people now celebrate Halloween, my youngest daughter, age 8, wants to take part. As a compromise, my daughter is making a mobile for her bedroom. She has been busily drawing spiders, pumpkins, bats and ghosts, cutting them out, decorating them and tying string to them, ready to hang up. The other compromise I sometimes make is to buy a pumpkin - but that is because I use it to cook with!

We're going to be making hedgehog ginger biscuits with icing and orange sand - I suggested red icing for a gory road kill vibe but got shot down on that one.

We're having a party with 7 under twos better get out the wet wipes

My wife is also doing lots of craft pictures with autumnal leaves and twigs - very seasonal

Nothing too spooky as I have a toddler. Spiders from pipe cleaners and pumpkin carving (more of a watch mummy with large knife activity).

We went pumpkin picking and will be carving our pumpkins this week. We will also be hosting a halloween party with mask making, gloop, jelly digging and themed food.

We love to carve pumpkins and have competitions amongst us!

We are helping to run a community Halloween Party and have various crafts going on including, Colouring pictures, Loom band designs, painting pumkin bags and much more

We used Hobbycrafts £1 kits to make Halloween window light catchers and little felt pumpkins and ghosts. Great fun without breaking the bank. A couple of days before Halloween we'll carve a couple of pumpkins too.

We've just bought the pumpkins to carve from our local farm shop, two smallish orange ones and one massive off-white one.

We are going to toast some of the seeds and thread others onto an outside garland that hopefully will also help feed the birds.

We've stocked up on craft things and DS (age 5) will be making spider webs, using the 'snowflake' method of folding paper and cutting bits off, then unfolding to see what your web has turned out like.

We've also got paper cups and tissue paper, to make hanging ghosts with.

I've got some felt that I'm going to make a spooky garland with. I made a set of skulls for a friend last year that she was very pleased with, so this year I'd like something for our house. We're planning to have skulls, ghosts, pumpkins and spooky faces.

And DS likes to make handprint ghosts and scary faces.

Sometimes I make DS's costume and sometimes I buy it and customise it.

This year I'm customising a Dragon Master costume but I can't resist sharing some previous years costumes. For his first halloween, DS went as a voodoo doll. He was seven months old and I sewed odd stitches and bits of bandages and beads onto a baby grow, to make him look handmade. He had that big bone and I decorated his baby carrier with spooky tinsel, skull lights and a previously cuddly chicken which became, just for the day, known as his sacrificial chic hen. I wore a witches hat and carried a large knitting needle as my 'pin'.

Last year he went as a mummy, which involved sewing lots of bandages onto a white t-shirt, a set of girls leggings, and a bath hat. He decided he wanted some bloodstains on it and we used white face paint, which he then promptly rubbed off.

we're making bats out of old socks and spiders using pom poms for our halloween party

we have grown our own pumpkin in the garden this year, i can't wait to carve it with my boys & then make halloween pumpkin cake with the carved pumpkin :)

I don't like trick or treating but I know my 3 year old will enjoy dressing up so we are having a party on the Saturday with some of her friends.

I went to Hobbycraft today and was really pleased with my purchases. A packet of spooky cutters, a garland of craft items and some black card.

I'm planning to make up some gingerbread dough to cut out biscuits with the cutters. Whilst they are cooking they can make spooky collages with the black card and garland and then decorate their biscuits.

I also have a decorate your own witches hat for me

We will be trying out some pumpkin carvings

Have used your ideas for paper mache and made a wonderful witches hat and a lantern. Oh have the children enjoyed the ''stickiness''.

I usually make some Halloween cupcakes, just plain fairy cakes but with bright green icing and something gruesome on the top. They go down a treat. The kids love making them, and are a bit put out if I offer them to trick or treaters.

Some great ideas here. We usually carve a watermelon instead of a pumpkin because I love fruit. Dd was asking for a pumpkin too though. Going to try to start making Harry Potter themed props too for dd1's birthday - floating candles, sorting hat etc and Halloween seems a good time to do it!