Christmas Tree Ideas

Christmas Flowerpots

CHRISTMAS FLOWER POTS

Halloween Pumpkin Spider

Ghost Tea Lights

GHOST TEA LIGHTS

You will need:

• white air-dry clay
• silicone rolling pin
• silicone mat
• straw or lollipop stick
• 4 1/2-inch circle cutter (or, use a knife)
• 2-inch Styrofoam balls
• egg carton
• LED tea lights 

Instructions:

Roll out some of the clay on the silicone mat. 

When it’s about 1/4-inch thick, cut out a 4 1/2-inch circle (don’t use a knife or a cutter with sharp edges directly on the mat). 

Continue to roll the circle a bit until it’s about 6-inches in diameter. Don’t worry if the edges are skewed a bit. 

With the straw or lollipop stick, make two eyes a bit off center.

Cut out a cup from the egg carton. 

Set a Styrofoam ball on top. 

Drape the clay circle over the ball. Let the ghost dry very well, at least over night, possibly two nights. Gently remove the ball. 

Rest the ghost over a tea light.

Source: The Decorated Cookie

Halloween Tea Light Jars

HALLOWEEN

TEA LIGHT JARS

Halloween Scarecrow Jars

HALLOWEEN SCARECROW JARS

What you need:

• mason jar
• tan, cream, black and orange acrylic craft paint
• faux hay
• burlap ribbon
• large googly eyes
• fake sunflower
• black permanent marker
• paint brushes
• glue gun (low temp glue gun if you are crafting with younger kids)
• scissors

METHOD:

1. Lay down a piece of newspaper or scrap paper before you get started. Paint the outside of your Mason jar tan with your large flat tipped paintbrush and let dry.
2. se your smaller paint brush to paint on a triangle shaped nose on the front center of your Mason jar with your orange paint.
3. Use a sharpie or your black paint to draw/paint of a wavy smile under the nose with several dashes through the smile, as well as around the nose.
4. Then paint on two small cream circles for the cheeks at each side of the smile.
5. Now carefully glue two googly eyes above the nose with your hot glue gun.
6. Cut two sets of 10 strands of straw about 3-4″ in length and tie the strands together with another piece of straw for the hair and carefully glue to each top side of the Mason jar
7. Measure and cut a piece of burlap ribbon to fit around the top of the Mason jar and secure with glue.
8. Glue a sunflower onto the top left side of the burlap and your scarecrow is complete!

SOURCE: Easy Peasy And Fun

Hanging Basket

HANGING BASKET

Pom Poms (cardboard circles)

POM POMS

(Cardboard Circles Method)

Pom Poms (toilet rolls)

POM POMS 

(toilet rolls method)

Painting: Cats and moon

PAINTING: CATS AND MOON

Materials:

Acrylic Paint (I use the Liquitex Basics brand or Apple Barrel Craft Paint. For this tutorial, I used Apple Barrel craft paint because the set has that turquoise color! If you’re using Liquitex Brand, a similar color is “Bright Aqua Green”)

Paint Colors:

Red (Flag Red or Cad Red)

Orange (Jack O’ Lantern or Cad Orange)

Yellow (Cad Yellow)

Blue (Bright Blue or a Primary Blue)

Turquoise (Bimini Blue or Bright Aqua Green)

White (Titanium White)

Black (Mars Black)

16″ x 20″ Canvas or 8″ x 10″ canvas or whatever size you want!

Various Brush Sizes

9″ Paper plate to trace the moon

Water

Palette or paper plate for palette

Covered work space

Table top easel (I recommend using an easel for best perspective!)

Traceable (Optional):

If you’re doing the version with the two cats, there is no traceable but they are really very simple to paint! Use chalk to draw the outline of the heads and bodies first and also the tails. Then paint your chalk drawing in with black paint.

Trace an 9″ paper plate with a pencil. This circle represents the moon. 

Mix equal parts turquoise and white paint together. Then paint a turquoise-white ring around the moon. Use a 1″ flat brush to paint this ring. The ring is about 1″ thick

Paint a turquoise (not mixed with anything) ring around the first ring. Blend the two colors together using a wet brush.

Paint another ring with primary blue. Use a wet brush to blend the colors together.

Fill the rest of the canvas in (the corners) with primary blue. Keep the strokes going in a circle.

Use a 1/4″ flat brush to paint arc lines around the moon, with white paint. To make the white more translucent, dip it in the water more.

Paint the tree with black paint. To do this, use a 1″ angle brush. Practice your tree first on a separate paper until you feel comfortable painting it on the canvas.

Use a small round brush to paint the fall leaves. Use the tip of the brush to dot in red, yellow and orange leaves. You don’t have to clean your brush off between colors.

Draw the cat with pencil

Paint the cat in black using a small round brush. 

You can also choose to paint two cats

Using a small round brush and some light turquoise paint color, paint some swirls in the sky. Also, to paint stars, flick your paintbrush with white paint to create a splatter paint effect. 

Source: Step By Step Painting

Book Bricks

BOOK BRICKS

Pom Pom Bookmarkers

POM POM BOOKMARKERS

Supplies:

– yarn

– scissors

*Before you start, cut an 8-10 inch piece of yarn and a 15 inch piece of yarn and set it aside. You will need these lengths in later steps.

To start, hold the end of the yarn in your hand, and begin wrapping the yarn around your fingers – snug but not too tight. We recommend wrapping the yarn 90 times.

Cut the yarn after 90 wraps, and carefully slide it off your fingers. Lay it down over the 8-10 inch piece of yarn. Tightly tie a knot around the middle of the 90 loops.

To add the yarn ball bookmark ‘tail’, use the 15-inch piece of yarn, tie it around the same string you used to tie the 90 loops together, as seen in the pictures above.

At this point, your yarn ball bookmark should look like the picture above.

Next, holding the ball on it’s side, slide your scissors through the yarn loops and start cutting. Instant fluffy yarn!

This is what your pom pom will look like — it will start to resemble a ball, but is in dire need of a haircut!

Start snipping! {WARNING: be careful NOT to cut off the bookmark tail! Hold it out of the way while you snip.} With this step, you need to cut the yarn pom pom into the shape of a ball. Continue to turn and snip the yarn, looking at the ball from different angles while doing so. Keep rounding it off until you are pleased with the shape. This step does take practice, and you will improve with each ball you make.

Voila! Your pom pom ball will appear! And your yarn ball bookmark is officially done!

Source: Design Mom