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BOO! Are you ready for a Spooktacular Halloween?

14/10/2015

Hello,
We're well into October now, so I guess it's time to put our witches hats on, and cook up some creative Halloween Activities before everything Christmas swallows us up!

I'm looking forward to sharing with you, a spooktacular Halloween free printable activity pack, designed for home and school use - from bats to bunting, pumpkins to ghosts - great for doodling, or creating a ghoulish space for your kids to hang out in.

Click here or on the images below to take you directly to my Halloween Page on The ImaginationBox website.

Happy Halloween everyone and keep an eye out for November's blog posts - they will be brimming with All Things Festive. I'll be getting my 'Christmas Ideas Hat' on after i've taken my witch's hat off!

These doodleweb pages are great for concentration, and exploring colour, texture and pattern.

ANNOUNCEMENT! My online store is open :-)
I've been busy creating an online shop, 'The ImaginationBoxStore' with an aim to offer unique, fun and affordable wall art and creative activity packs, in both printed and downloadable formats - to make your home a stimulating and colourful place to live and to encourage families to bring more creativity into their children's lives.

Use the special code HALLO2 for a 15% discount until October 31st.
Here are a few examples of what's available, from Halloween fun to beautiful nursery and bedroom wall art for babies and kids of all ages - they can be personalised too as a special gift.
I'd love you to take a look round!
Best wishes
Diane

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Halloween Spiders in the Woods

24/10/2013

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It's a beautiful clear sunny day at The Wood School today. Lucky us, in rainy old Manchester!
I showed the children, age four upwards, how to make 'mini webs' for Halloween with wool and matchsticks - based on the ancient craft of the 'God's Eye'.

You'll need the following:
Wool
Matchsticks
Plastic Spiders (I got these from Quality Save)

How to make them
Click above to take you to a great link, showing you how, with pictures

Hang them in the garden, by your bed......Happy Halloween!

materials needed

Happy Halloween!

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Six Seriously Spooky Halloween Ideas

10/10/2013

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We didn't really celebrate Halloween when I was little, I just remember those scary 80's movies! Now our two are a little bit older, 4 and 6, I really have the urge to decorate the house and make more of Halloween - which isn't far away, October 31st.
On this blog post, I'll share a few of my own ideas and also some great ideas I've found on Pinterest, my new obsession!
All the ideas are pretty simple, you don't need to be an accomplished artist to give them a go, and generally, alot of the materials you may already have around the house!

1. Peanut ghosts and pumpkins!

Monkey nuts!

Chop the bottoms off the shells and eat the loose nut.

Paint the shells with acrylic or poster paints and leave them to dry. Then you can put the spooky pumpkin and ghost faces on them a black marker pen! They are the perfect for little fingers and imaginative minds. Charlie my 6 year old, has named them, 'halloweenies'.

2. Giant Spiders Webs from bin bags!

I found this great idea browsing Pinterest and made this web, using the instructions to the right

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/537406168005972748/

Buy some heavy duty, large dust bin bags.
Get some sharp scissors.
Follow the above link to get really clear step by step instructions from the creator!

3. Hand Printed Trick or Treat Bags

Potato and apple prints look great on brown paper!

I bought a pack of brown paper sandwich bags from Quality Save - they work out at under 10p each. The bag on the left was printed with potato halves with the eyes and mouth shapes cut out. The bag on the right was printed with apple halves.
Printing is a great activity and suitable for preschoolers as well as older ones.
Wait for the acrylic or poster paint to dry, then you can draw on the black features with a marker - or cut out and glue on black paper shapes. Add green pumpkin stalks if you want to, and we used a stencil for the wording. Now they are ready to go trick or treating with!

4. Pumpkin Bunting!

Print print print!

With a couple of children printing away with apples and potatoes, you can make metres of this in no time! Cut some cartridge weight paper to postcard size, punch 2 holes in the top.
Print away as you did for the bags. When they are dry, thread some string or wool and you are ready to hang your halloween bunting!

5. Lollipop spiders!

Oh no! I've broken the 'no googly eyes' rule!

Again, I found this brilliantly simple idea
on Pinterest.
You'll need 2 googly eyes, some black pipe cleaners and a lolly!

Here's the link to the creator
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/537406168005991213/

6. Last but not least, decorate your FRONT DOOR!

How hilarious is this!

Another great find on Pinterest. The Americans certainly know how to do Halloween! I can't wait to do this to our front door.
Tissue paper hair, paper plate eyes, masking tape mouth....tomato sauce optional!
Here's the link to the creator
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/537406168005941458/

I hope you have enjoyed reading this post, it's my longest blog to date! I'd love to hear what you like the most, which ideas you might try etc.
And talking of Pinterest (again), I have made a board of all the Halloween ideas I liked, have a browse.......
http://www.pinterest.com/pagancreative/halloween/

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

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