Abhishek Agarwal asked:


Halloween is all about having fun with your friends and family. Among the best parts of Halloween are decorating the house with crafts. And when these crafts are all hand made, the more the merrier! Coming to its expenditure part, the amazing fact is that this sort of craft work can easily be done using anything you get your hands an at home. Using old paper or simple construction paper many decorative can be made to make your Halloween special and spooky.

Now I’m sure, you all must be looking for some free Halloween crafts that are easy enough for you to follow!

Halloween paper crafts are real fun for kids. Try cutting out a ghost from white paper or make a detailed pumpkin window peek! The idea is to enjoy what ever you make! This way you would be able to use all your creativity.

Well, internet is a hub for several ideas. Once you have the ideas and tips and tricks, you can use your innovative skills to make the ideas even more interesting. Creativity and imagination is the key to make your decorations as exclusive and attractive and spooky as you wish to. Here are a few ideas to get started:

1. Pumpkin Lantern

Take some sheets of construction paper and gather the basic craft equipment like scissors and glue.

Fold the construction sheet in to half from the shorter side.

Now, with a ruler, measure 2 inches towards inside from the open edge. Next, draw a line 18 inch long across the paper. Father, 1 inch apart between the paper’s fold and the 18 inch line draw lines.

With the scissors, cut the shorter lines from the paper’s folded edge and stop at the line.

Your strips are ready. Now, unfold the paper. Bend it in to a cylinder and paste together the sides.

To make the handle of the lantern, cut 1

Lawrence

Sandra Canfield asked:


During the season of Kwanzaa, one way to demonstrate the principle of “Kuumba”, or the focus on creativity, is to develop craft projects for the holiday. Once finished, the crafts can be used year after year as part of the Kwanzaa theme in your home, creating great decorations as well as great memories.

If your Kwanzaa holiday includes planning a party in your home, this will be the perfect opportunity for craft projects. Invitations, place cards, place mats, and decorations are very easy craft projects for the entire family to create. The designs will be limited only to the imagination of the designer, with the only rule to be that they remain in the Kwanzaa theme. Using the traditional colors of the holiday, black, red and green, invitations and place cards can be stamped, inked, colored, or decorated with fabric or other materials. With corn as part of the seven symbols, incorporating unpopped kernels into the designs will add a realistic touch to your art. Place mats for the dinner table can be woven with colored construction paper, stiffened ribbons or strips of plastic canvas available in craft stores.

Your creative flow can run freely with decorations for the holiday. Kwanzaa is a celebration of many things: crops, family, community, creation, and African past and future. With the foundation roots of Kwanzaa springing from African harvest festivals of decades past, any African print, theme or idea can be utilized for decorations. Small natural clay pots, hand decorated in African theme with black acrylic paint can be connected with hemp and suspended upside down as wind chimes. Strips of cloth in black, red and green can be hand sewn to fashion a variety of African flags and displayed as a wall hanging; for children, this same craft can be created using colored construction paper and string.

Children love to create, and craft projects geared to their age groups will form wonderful memories for years to come. Their designs can serve double duty as Kwanzaa decorations around the house, as well. African native animal crafts are particularly appealing. Monkeys, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and brilliantly hued parrots can be cut from colored construction paper and glued to plastic straws or Popsicle (craft) sticks to form a jungle zoo. Animal and traditional African masks are also very decorative crafts that can be both displayed and played with by children. The masks can be as simple as cut out construction paper, or made more ornate by crafting with cardstock paper and including glued on decorations such as feathers, beads and hemp.

Fun surprises are always welcome by young and old, and you can create a few craft surprises to delight family members during Kwanzaa dinners. Using common household items, such as empty bathroom or paper towel rolls, crafting tissue paper, construction paper, string and glue, you can design Kwanzaa candles that hold sweet treats. Simply cut construction paper of black, red or green to wrap around the paper rolls and glue in place. Place on square of tissue paper on top of another, forming a star-like pattern, place your finger in the center and fold up the sides like an umbrella. Carefully stuff the folded tissue completely into the roll. Insert the sweet treats, and secure the end with string, leaving tufts of paper at the end to form a “flame”.

Creating beautiful and memorable crafts does not mean that you need to spend a lot of money on materials. There are certain to be plenty of materials around the home that can be put to use in craft making. Items such as paper grocery bags, cast off clothing, loose beads, food items like dried beans and popcorn and glue can be the foundation of many attractive and creative crafts. Throughout the year before the Kwanzaa holiday, discounted items can be purchased and stored to be brought out at the season of Kwanzaa.

Begin a family tradition for the Kwanzaa season that can be carried on for years to come. Creating crafts to decorate and delight through Kwanzaa will bring the family together in unity and creativity as well as providing lasting memories of happy times spent.



Jair

Abhishek Agarwal asked:


Halloween is a time when one can experiment with creative craft ideas to make wonderful decorations for the house. It is an opportunity to dabble in the wonderful world of art and craft. Making the Halloween decorations is not only a fun activity; it gives your house a festive look. One need not be an expert in art to make these decorations. All you need is loads of imagination, creativity and a few items available around the house and you are ready to get going. Some simple ideas are given below to get you started.

One of the easiest Halloween decorations to make is creepy candles. You will need candles, sequins, beads, colored threads and any other trinkets that take your fancy.

The candles should be of dark colors, you could go for the Halloween colors of black and orange. With the help of simple white glue, stick these trinkets around the candles in any manner you like. You may have to use tweezers to stick the small items onto the candle. Table sprinkles in the form of ghosts, pumpkins, witches or bats can be used to give that creepy look. Place these decorated candles around the house and watch them light up the evening!

Another art and craft Halloween decoration is the creepy balloon ghost, which is very easy to make. All you need is white balloons and plastic grocery bags. The bags should be plain with no writing on them. Here is how to create a spooky ghost: Cut off the handles of the grocery bag. Leaving the bottom of the bag intact, with the help of scissors, cut the bag into dangling strips up to about an inch from the bottom seam. In the same manner cut up another grocery bag. Fill up the balloon with air and knot it up. Tape the seam of one bag to the front and the other to the back, leaving the knot on top. Paint a scary face of the ghost on the balloon and tie a string to the knot. Hang up these creepy balloons to trees in the yard. You may also put a few bells to the end of the strips, so that they make a sound with the movement of the wind. Enjoy the haunting chimes of the ghosts moving around in your yard!

Halloween decorations can be a good way to bond with family and friends. It can be a fun activity done together, enjoying each other’s company and getting to know the creativity of your children, while experimenting with these decorations. Although Halloween art and craft decorations may be difficult to make, the possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination and creativity.



Davian