It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

Happy Halloween! This year we chose to do It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for our Trunk or Treat theme.  It was super easy and cheap! 😁

I was able to get two large pieces of cardboard from a bathroom renovation project at work to spray paint for the sky and grass areas.  I hand drew cardboard cutouts made on a large sheet of craft board from the dollar store and painted them with acrylic paint that I had on hand.

The Snoopy pumpkin was made by spray painting a tall skinny pumpkin and a butternut squash white.  The scarf was made by cutting up an old red sweatshirt and his nose was fashioned out of black modeling clay.  I used real and fake pumpkins purchased at the dollar store.  

The trick or treating ghost kids were made from round plastic table cloths purchased at the dollar store with eye holes drawn on with a Sharpie.  I made the witch mask from green, white, and black felt.  I used cotton batting and rolled the nose, securing it with hot glue.  The witch hat was also purchased at the dollar store.

We stood the ghosts up by using 5 gallon water jugs with wooden dowels in the middle with duct tape.  For the heads I used some paper mache balloons and a styrofoam craft head I had left over from other projects.  I put white modeling clay at the bottom of the table cloths to prevent them from blowing off in the wind.

It was qiuck, easy, and lots of fun to make! 

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This is Halloween, This is Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone only 23 more days until the fun begins! I made this Nightmare Before Christmas pumpkin diaroma for a contest at my son’s school. First prize is discounted tuition of $150.00 and 2nd is $100.00.  My fingers are crossed for a win!

This was made from a hallow carvable craft pumpkin, sculpy modeling clay, air dying clay, acrylic paint, etc.

UPDATE:  The results are in and I’m proud to report that this bad boy tied for 1st place in the contest!  Stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make one for yourself! 🎃😁

Nightmare Before Christmas Lock, Stock, and Barrel on a Oogie Boogie Hill

After re-blogging Crafts ‘n Coffee’s blog about her Halloween Polka Dot Ghost wreath it made me want to finish the one I started last year! I was so excited that I stayed up until 11 PM and then worked all morning and afternoon to complete it finally after only a mere 1o hours later! I guess I’ll do anything to avoid working on dear old Tick Tock 😎🐊!

Materials Needed:

• Styrofoam Ring (sold at craft stores)
• Black Yarn
• White Yarn
• Foam Core Poster Board
• Air Drying Clay
• Floral Wire
• Black and White Polka Dotted Wire Ribbon
• Yellow Acrylic Paint
• Light Yellow Acrylic Paint
• Orange Acrylic Paint
• White Acrylic Paint
• Red Acrylic Paint
• Black Acrylic Paint
• Purple Acrylic Paint
• Hot Glue and Glue Gun
• X-acto Knife
• Pencil
• Wooden Shish Kabob Skewers
• EZ Bow Maker

1. Wrap in alternating colors of black in white in 2-3 inch strips until your Styrofoam Ring in completely covered.  Start and finish each strand with a dab of hot glue smoothed out so it’s unnoticeable.
2. On the foam core board trace your wreath so you can cut out the swirled hill for your background using your X-acto Knife.
3. Place hill silhouette on top of foam core board to draw a moon for the background.
4. Peel both sides of the paper off of the foam core board hill and moon.
5. Paint the swirled hill using the black paint.
6. Paint the moon starting with the yellow paint, using a blow dryer to dry slightly and then layering in a light brushing/blending of light yellow paint for contouring.
7. Draw each characters mask and/or hat and body on the foam core board and cut out with your X-acto Knife.
8. Use the air clay to coat the foam core board pieces and make them look 3D by making exaggerated noses and 3D arms and hands. (See photo gallery for examples). Make feet that you will add on afterwards with hot glue.
9. Use your blow dryer to dry out the sculptures and then paint them.
10. I mixed black, white, and purple paint for faces and hands.
11. Mix black and purple with a touch of white, painting the color of her dress adding less white than for the face and hands.
12. Paint each character according to its color scheme.
13. Cut the Shish Kabob Skewers to the right size for the witches legs and paint black.
14. Glue together characters and paint using its coordinating colors.
15. Glue swirled hill onto the back of the black and white wreath.
16. Paint “trick or treat” in black on the moon as shown in pictures.
17. Glue moon to the back of the swirled hill.
18. Glue each character in place.
19. Using the EZ Bow Maker to make a wreath bow using the black and white Polka Dotted Wire Ribbon to make a bow for your wreath.

Try this out if you love Nightmare Before Christmas too!  This looks harder than it is! Happy Halloween and remember it’s all for the love of craft!