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