Halloween crafts

The past weekend the kids and I made some fun Halloween crafts.

It is always fun to work with hand prints. You start by  painting the hand , not the thumb, with black paint and print one hand  then the other, overlapping the palms. 

You can add eyes and paint the face with white paint.

The other craft that is also fun to make are spiders out of egg cartons. 

The kids loved painting them. After they dry add eyes, nose, mouth and teeth if you choose!

I used a hole punch to make the holes for the pipe cleaners to go through .

The kids liked choosing different colours for the legs.

Halloween inspiration

Martha know how!

I have been looking around on my computer to try and find inspiring halloween decorating and other goodies.  I have never been very much in love with Halloween, but now that the kids are getting bigger I am seeing the fun side of it.
Here are some fun ideas.
Use the link to go directly to the sites.

 Do you have any great ideas?

Lovely masked lady!

And outside the front door

From the Purl Bee

This made me laugh!

Owls by Vintage by Crystal on Etsy

Fun Cat Pants

At last I had time to sew up some pants for the smallest or shall I say youger member of our family.

And how theme appropriate to have her wear cat pants today!

I found this great fabric at Jo-Anne's . It is a very soft , fine cord. She is going through a "I love Cats" period and seeing that we will not be getting a cat soon this was the next best thing.

The pants are cut from a pair that I made the previous year and I just added a inch and a half to the leg and a bit in the waist. She was very worried that I was cutting the old pants but had her first lesson in "cutting around" and "using as a pattern".

After they were done they did look a bit like pajama pants and that gave me the idea to have a cat face on the one pant leg. Not sure how long the whiskers will hold but we will see.

The waist is just elastic as we need easy access these days!

Happy Halloween!