Halloween Paper Strip Pumpkin Craft

Here's a super easy and cute Halloween paper strip pumpkin craft from Linda at Little Family Fun. It's pretty self-explanatory. Staple or glue paper strips into rolls and glue on a sheet of card stock to make a pumpkin. Visit this site for this and lots of other great craft ideas.

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Halloween Paper Strip Pumpkin Craft

This s a really cute Halloween paper strip pumpkin craft. You can use zigzag craft scissors or regular scissors. Follow the link for a complete tutorial with step by step instructions, along with dozens of other great craft ideas.
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Halloween Yarn Pumpkin Craft

This Halloween yarn pumpkin craft idea is a classic. Simple and fun to make. Just yarn, a ballooon and glue. I've seen the same idea used to make a spider's web craft, too. Follow the link for a full tutorial with pictures.

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Pipe Cleaner Halloween Pumpkins

Here are some cute Halloween pip cleaner pumpkins from a Japanese site. Make a loop at the end of an orange pipe cleaner to make the base. Wrap the free end over the top to make the first loop in your pumpkin. Add 2 more short pipe cleaners for the other loops. Add a short green pipe cleaner at the top for the stem.



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Paper Apple Craft

This paper apple craft is another variation of the recycled book pumpkin craft from Craftberry Bush. This one you don't need a book, but several sheets of white paper.

Materials:

• cardboard
• white paper
• scissors
• short stick
• strong stapler
• glue or glue gun
• red food coloring
• water
• shallow bowl
• ribbon
• apple seeds

Directions:

1. Trace a simple half apple shape with one straight edge on cardboard and cut out. This will be your template.
2. Put several sheets of  white paper together. Fold in half and staple the fold to make a book.
3. Place the template on your little book with the straight edge along the spine and trace with a pencil.
4. Cut out with scissors.
5. Mix red food coloring with water in a shallow bowl.
6. Close your book and tip the edges in the red water to dy them. Allow to dry.
7. Glue a short stick to the spine of your book, sticking up a little from the top. Prefereably one with a little gren leaf.
8. Fold some pges arount the stick and glue in place. Hold with a clothespin until dry.
9. Tie a little ribbon around the stem.
10. Glue or draw a couple of apple seeds on the inside of your book.
11. Display your paper apple.

Source: Craftberry Bush

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Recycled Book Pumpkin Craft

This recycled book pumpkin craft has a really cool, vintage look. A very unique decorative craft for Earth Day, fall, Halloween, or anytime.

Materials:

• old paperback book
• cardboard
• scissors
• ribbon
• stick
• exacto knife
• glue gun
• tea bag
• clothespin

Directions:

1. Cut a simple half pumpkin/apple shape with one straight side from cardboard for your template.
2. Remove the cover from the book.
3. Close the book and place your template on the book with the flat side even with the book's spine. Trace or simply hold in place and cut allong the lines with an exacto knife. You have to keep cutting through again and again until you reach the end of the book.
4. Trim the edges with scissors.
5. Brew some tea. Use the wet tea bag to stain the edges of the book pages.
6. Place a short stick along the spine of the book sticking up a little from the top. Hot glue in place.
7. Fold some pages around the stick and glue in place. Use a closepin to close and keep in place until dry.
8. Tie a ribbon atound the stem. Display your recycled book pumpkin.

Source: Craftberry Bush

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Fall Pumpkin Sun Catcher Craft

This Halloween Pumpkin Sun Catcher Craft will look great hanging in the window during Halloween or anytime.

Materials:

• pumpkin template from site below
• yellow and orange tissue paper
• black construction paper
• scissors
• contact paper
• pencil
• yarn
• glue

Directions:

1. Cut the tissue paper into 1 inch squares.
2. Fold back the backing of the contact paper. Put on the tissue paper squares in a 8 inch circle. Leave no gaps.
3. Fold over the backing and smooth out any bubbles.
4. Print and cut out the pumpkin template. Trace and cut out 2 pumpkins from black paper.
5. Lay the template over the contact paper you decorated and trace the pumpkin shape. Cut out the shape slightly smaller than the line.
6. Glue the contact on top of one pumpkin.
7. Loop the yarn and glue to the top of the contact paper sticking out the top.
8. Glue and sandwich the other pumpkin on top.
9. Hang up your pumpkin in a window.

Source: The Crafty Hostess

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Easy Paper Plate Apple Craft

This is an easy and fun apple craft you can make from a paper plate.

Materials:

• paper plate
• red paint and paintbrushes
• brown and green construction paper
• scissors
• apple seeds
• glue

Directions:

1. Paint the bottom of a paper plate all red and allow to dry.
2. Cut out a brown stem and 2 green leaves from construction paper and glue to the back of the plate.
3. Glue real apple seeds in the middle of the plate.

Variations:

1. Instead of paint, glue on scraps of red paper or tissue paper.
2. Cut a little dip at the top and bottom to make a more apple shape.
3. Paint the rim red and the middle yellow to make an apple cut in half.

Source: Crafts for Preschool Kids

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