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Recycle a brown to create the shapes for this fun Halloween wreath designed by  Heidi,  A bit of paint, raffia and a straw wreath make this a quick, easy and inexpensive Halloween craft.   This quick and easy Halloween craft is a welcoming, festive sight on the door. Your visitors will love how this Halloween wreath craft looks (and the witches and goblins will love it, too). Materials: Tacky Glue Brown grocery bags 3” square cardboard (or plastic) squeegee Acrylic paint: black, orange, white, yellow, green Paintbrushes – 1/2” flat, 1/2” flat, fine-tip Natural raffia Scissors 12” diameter straw wreath Halloween Patterns For Full instructions please visit:  Favecrafts Amazing design by  Heidi Borchers of Inspired at Home . Feel free to Visit the Blog | Follow on Pinterest | Follow on Facebook | Follow on Twitter |Follow on Instagram Subscribe to Pretty Shabby UK

Scare the grapes right out of your guest with this amazing DIY wine bottle Jack-o-Lanterns craft. If you have a few empty wine bottles (or soon-to-be-empty ones) just sitting around, you could carve them up just as easily (pun intended) The cool thing about this project is that you don’t have to wait until the wine bottles are empty you van turn them into wine bottle Jack-o-Lanterns and then give them as gifts or take them to a Halloween party. And if you’re using empty bottles, you could even drop a string of clear Christmas lights in the bottle and use them as the “candle” in the Jack-o-Lantern. Materials: Your favourite wine. Masking tape Sharpie X-acto knife Spray paint. (Orange, Green) Bucket Soak the bottles in a bucket of water for a little while and then peel and scrape off the soggy mess. This only took about 10-15 minutes, Break out the masking tape! Put a large working are on the front of the bottle. The "front" here being the side facing you ...

Like me, Sarah Dawn is all about the simple fall crafts. She managed to make this amazing book pumpkin by recycling a book she no longer wanted Supplies Needed: -book that is ready to be recycled -piece of paper -pencil -scissors -glue stick -hot glue -a stick for the stem -tulle/ribbon/fabric -Krylon spray glitter (optional) Pop over to Sarah Dawn's designs for full instructions What simple fall crafts are you working on? Feel free to Visit the Blog | Follow on Pinterest | Follow on Facebook | Follow on Twitter |Follow on Instagram Subscribe to Pretty Shabby UK

With an old black trash bag and some general craft supplies, you can create this Bin bag  Halloween Wreath in no time.  This is a great way to add some Halloween charm to your outdoor  décor .  Too late for Halloween?  Use a white trash bag and embellish your wreath with ornaments or flowers to make a beautiful winter or spring wreath that you'll be proud to show off!   Materials: 2  black plastic bin bags Clear .75” round hose, alternatively use  insulation pipe wreath Scissors Craft knife Tape Fringing scissors Instructions: Use a craft knife to cut the hose to the length you want.  Make the ends as straight as possible. Wrap tape around the hose ends to hold them together and form a complete circle. Use a craft knife, or scissors to cut the trash bag into strips that measure 9” x 3”.  It will take a little more than one bag to cover a 12” round wreath.   Save cutting time by layering pieces w...

So, Halloween is nearly here, I am so excited.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween it is totally my favourite time of the year, We even got married on Halloween, unfortunately Mr W did not want it to be fancy dress :( Materials: Acrylic Paints  Y ellow and violet Brushes Brush basin Palette Paper towels Water Graphite & tracing paper Pencil, stylus Scotch tape Scissors Shady Lady lamp shade glue 3" bulb clip wire Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Permanent marker  Mason Jar Lamp 40-watt bulb Candy corn 6" Arc Shady Lamp Lampshade Paper, White Pattern  (from favecrafts)   Instructions: Preparation Transfer the pattern, according to these directions: Using a light box or a window, place on pattern front. Hint: If using a window, use two pieces of scotch tape to hold pattern up.   Turn precut arc over and line up pattern back. Trace on ghost outlines and lettering.   Painting Instructions Faces: Use round brush to pai...

Are you having a Halloween party?  Why not give the guests a little something to remember your amazing party with. The kids will love to get their hands on these lovely little gift bags (Yes- Pun was intended LOL) Supplies: * Orange Gift Bags * Green Paint/Paint Brush * Clothespins * Raffia * Construction Paper * Scissors * Baby Wipes Pop over to  Glued to my Crafts  for full tutorial with pictures. Feel free to Visit the Blog | Follow on Pinterest | Follow on Facebook |  Follow on Twitter |Follow on Instagram Subscribe to Pretty Shabby UK

These frightful glow-in-the-dark ghosts are fun and easy to make. You'll need glow-in-the-dark paint, some jars and tissue paper and other craft supplies to make them. Hang them from a tree or sit them on a window ledge or porch and give a little spook to visiting trick or treaters this Halloween. What you need: Mason jars of varying sizes White tissue paper Glow-in-the-dark paint Black paint White glue Paint brush Newspaper Paper plate or plastic lid. Twine   Pop over to  Squigly's Playhouse  for the full tutorial Feel free to Visit the  Blog  | Follow on  Pinterest  | Follow on  Facebook  | Follow on  Twitter  |Follow on  Instagram Subscribe to  Pretty Shabby UK  

This Jack Skellington Bouquet makes an amazing centrepiece for Halloween festivities. You could use this as centrepiece when your out during trick or treating or have it be the focal point for your Halloween gathering. Create a Jack Skellington Bouquet and watch the Pumpkin King cast spooky enchantment in your home. This easy Halloween craft idea is perfect for families of Halloween movie fans. Bring one of the most iconic creepy characters to life with this Halloween centrepiece idea. Materials: Glue Lines ® Craft Glue Dots Small clay pot Acrylic paints Bamboo skewers Sculpey III Ivory clay Clay modeling tools Black fine tip Sharpie Black ink pen Black satin ribbon, decorative ribbons Dew Drops (white) Floral foam Moss Floral pins Lollipops White tissue   Instructions: From one package of Sculpey clay roll out 6 heads. Shape as desired and add eye-sockets and mouth using modeling tools Poke a hole under each head with bamboo skewer BEFORE bak...

I am sure you know by now....i love Halloween, it is my BEST time of the year.... Although here in the UK Halloween is catching on slowly, I wish we would embrace it like and friends in the USA. There are so many amazing ideas out there I could turn this blog into a devoted Halloween blog...Don't worry I wont. So I have had a REALLY hard time sorting my favourites out, there are so many to choose from, so here goes: Totally Reinvented From this to this.............   Kimn at  Reinvented  designed and created this stunning decoration for her porch. How fabulous is the contrast between the pumpkin colours and the black and white polka dots?  What a fresh new look to traditional orange/black Halloween colours. Door Decor Poundland Pumpkins - Cut them in half, spray and paint....Simples..... Scarily Refreshing The old watering hole provides plenty of drinks served up in pretty and practical pumpkin coole...

Easy Bubbling Cauldrons What you will need: Plastic cauldrons: one large and one medium Flowerpot saucer the same diameter as the large cauldron opening Aluminum foil 2 cans of spray-foam insulation for large cracks (We used Great Stuff.) Assorted rubber critters such as toads, lizards, rats, and bats Plastic eyeballs Crafts knife Lime-green acrylic crafts paint and paintbrush How to Make It: For the large cauldron, line the saucer with aluminum foil. Spray foam insulation into the tray until it is just a little more than full. Let the wet foam set up for about 10 minutes to form the "bubbling brew," and then insert rubber critters and plastic eyes as desired. On a separate sheet of aluminum foil, spray small blobs of the foam insulation. Use these blobs as decorative "drips" to glue on around the edge of the large cauldron. For the medium cauldron, cut a hole large enough for the cauldron to lie flat on its side. Protect a flat wo...

Peanut Butter Pumpkin Cookies INGREDIENTS: 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated peanut butter cookies 1 egg yolk 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup orange decorator sugar crystals 14 twisted butter-flavor pretzel sticks, broken in half DIRECTIONS: Heat oven to 350°F. Spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. In medium bowl, stir cookie dough, egg yolk and flour until well mixed. Pour sugar crystals into small bowl. Shape dough into 28 (1-inch) balls; roll in sugar crystals. Insert 1 pretzel piece into each ball for pumpkin stem. Using toothpick or tip of teaspoon, make lines around sides for pumpkin ridges. Place balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or just until set in center when touched with fingertip. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 10 minutes. Makes 28 cookies Recipe from pillsbury

***Wicked Witch Cupcakes*** Ingredients: 24 brown mini M&Ms, plus more for filling (optional) Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes Dirty Green Simple Buttercream 12 chocolate sugar cones 1 pound(s) black licorice laces, cut into 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, and 2-inch lengths 12 candy corns Directions: Using a melon baller, scoop out the center of each cupcake, and fill with mini M&Ms, if desired. Cover the tops of each cupcake with a generous mound (about 1/3 cup) of buttercream. Insert one candy corn into each cupcake to form a nose. Using brown mini M&Ms, insert two into each cupcake to form eyes. Place two short lengths of licorice above the eyes to form eyebrows for the witch. Place the shorter licorice lengths above the eyebrows to form bangs. Place an inverted cone on top of bangs, pressing gently into buttercream to adhere. Place the longer licorice lengths under the cone hat to form the hair. Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes: Ingredients: 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick...

***Tombstone Brownies*** Bake brownies in a 13"x9" pan and let cool. Cut into rectangles, and frost with chocolate icing. Use a tombstone cookie cutter to cut shapes into refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Bake as directed on package. If you can't find a tombstone cookie cutter, you can just use rectangular cookie cutters and shape with a knife. Let cool, and decorate as desired. Use a dollop of frosting to adhere the cookies to the brownies. Pipe green frosting "grass" and top with a candy pumpkin. Recipe found at halloween.holidayscentral

***Ghoulish Petits Fours*** For witch hats, make petits fours through step two. Then create a brim using a dab of icing: Affix each petit four to a 2-to-2 1/2-inch chocolate wafer cookie. Proceed to step three, coating with Chocolate Glaze instead of Butter Glaze. In lieu of step four, wrap one or two pieces of licorice lace around the base of the hat immediately after glazing. Ingredients Makes about 40 White Sheet Cake Confectioners' Sugar Icing Butter Glaze 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, for eyes and mouth Directions: Using a 1 1/2-inch cookie cutter, cut out circles from cake. Brush off any crumbs with a pastry brush. Fit a pastry bag with a plastic coupler, and top cake rounds with icing in a ghost or hat shape,about 1 inch high. Place a wire rack over a rimmed baking sheet; set aside. Set an iced cake round on a fork; hold over bowl of glaze. Using a large spoon, drizzle glaze evenly over cake and icing until completely covered. Transfer to wire ra...

***Night Owl Halloween Cookies*** INGREDIENTS: 1 roll (18 oz.) refrigerated sugar cookie dough 1/4 cup flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 20 whole cashews ¼ cup vanilla frosting ¼ cup chocolate frosting ½ cup M&M’S® Brand Peanut Chocolate Candies 2 cookie sheet pans Plastic wrap paper Resealable plastic bag DIRECTIONS: 1. Divide the sugar cookie dough in three pieces. Knead the flour into one piece of cookie dough until smooth, set aside. Combine the remaining two pieces of cookie dough and knead in the cocoa powder until smooth, set aside. 2. Roll the lighter colored cookie dough into a 1-inch round log about 10 inches long, and move it off to the side. Roll out the chocolate cookie dough on a lightly floured surface to a 10 x 4-inch rectangle. Place the light colored log of cookie dough on top of the chocolate rectangle. Wrap the chocolate cookie dough completely around the lighter colored log. Pinch edges to seal and roll the log smooth. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at ...

***Yummy Mummy Spinach Dip*** What You Need: 1pkg. (16 oz.) frozen pizza dough, thawed 1 egg, beaten 2sticks KRAFT or POLLY-O Mozzarella String Cheese 2 black olive slices 1cup BREAKSTONE'S Reduced Fat or KNUDSEN Light Sour Cream 1/4 cup KRAFT Lite Ranch Dressing 1pkg. (10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed, well drained 1 green onion, sliced 1/2cup finely chopped red peppers 1/4cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese 1/4tsp. ground black pepper WHEAT THINS Original Snacks Make It: PAT dough into 12x6-inch oval on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Indent dough, about 3 inches from one end of oval, for the mummy's head. Let rise in warm place 20 min. or until doubled in volume. HEAT oven to 375ºF. Brush dough with egg. Bake 18 to 20 min. or until bread is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped lightly. Pull apart string cheese to make about 16 strips; arrange on bread for the mummy's wrappings. Bake 1 to 2 min. or just until cheese is...

***Scary Skillet Shepherd's Pie*** What You Need: 1pkg. (16 oz.) frozen mixed vegetables (corn, carrots, green beans, peas) 1lb. ground beef 1cup beef gravy 4oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, cubed 1cup milk, divided 1cup water 2cups instant potato flakes 1/4cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese Make It: COOK vegetables as directed on package. Meanwhile, brown meat in large skillet; drain. Stir in gravy; simmer 5 min. or until heated through, stirring occasionally. MICROWAVE cream cheese and 1/4 cup milk in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 30 sec.; beat with whisk until blended. Gradually whisk in remaining milk and water. Microwave 2-1/2 min. or until hot, stirring after each minute. Stir in potato flakes and Parmesan until blended. Spoon into resealable plastic bag; cut one corner off bottom of bag. REMOVE 12 peas from mixed vegetables; stir remaining vegetables into meat mixture in skillet. Squeeze potato mixture into 6 mounds on meat mi...

If you like the idea of spider treats, don't miss the Scary chocolate halloween spiders   recipe, so continuing on the 8 legged recipe treats I hope you like these cookies. ***Scary Spider Cookies (Gluten-Free Recipe*)*** Cookie: 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup Butter, softened 1 Land O Lakes® All-Natural Egg 1 tablespoon vanilla 2 1/4 cups Gluten-Free Flour Blend 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Black decorator sugar Decorations: Gluten-free red or black licorice laces (string),cut into 192 (1 1/2 to 2 inch) pieces, if desired Decorator gel or frosting Decorator candies (candy eyes, red cinnamon candies, mini chocolate-covered candy pieces, candy sprinkles, etc.), if desired Directions: Heat oven to 375°F. Combine sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Add flour blend, baking powder and salt. Continue beating, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Roll dough into 1-inch balls...