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Halloween party for kids
Halloween is on the 31st of October and for children this scary holiday is a lot of fun in Germany as well. Here come our decoration ideas.
You need this for the pumpkin:
- pumpkin
- big wide eyes
- Mullbinde
- tape
And that's how easy it is:
1. Stick the eyes on the pumpkin.
2. Wrap gauze bandage around the pumpkin. Keep your eyes out.
3. Fix the end of the bandage with adhesive tape.
This is what you need for the Halloween paper bag:
- Stencil with witch motif (craft shop)
- paper bag
- masking tape
- household sponge
- clothes peg
- Acrylic or poster color in orange and dark red (craft shop)
- Remnant of coarse linen
- Juteband (craft shop)
- Klebesterne (department store)
- scissors
- pen
It's that easy:
1. Place the stencil on the paper bag, fix it with a little crepe.
2. Cut off a small piece of household sponge and hold it with a clothespin. This creates a cheap sponge.
3. Dab paint. Immediately remove the template and rinse. Let dry.
4. Copy a piece of coarse linen on the color copier and cut out apples.
5. Stick apples on labels and label them with the names of the children or guests.
6. Attach labels to the bags with a little jute tape.
7. Decorate additional bags with some glue beads.
That's what you need for the lanterns:
- old jam jars
- Construction paper, black
- Transparent paper, orange
- big wide eyes
- Mullbinde
- double-sided adhesive tape
- Schleifenband
- tape
- scissors
And that's how easy it is:
Pumpkin:
1. Cut out two equal triangles, which become the eyes. Cut out a sickle and cut out two small squares. This is the mouth of the pumpkin.
2. Glue your eyes and mouth to the glass.
3. Apply a thin strip of double-sided tape to the bottom edge of the glass.
4. Wrap the glass with translucent paper. Press on the lower edge and fix with ribbon at the upper edge.
Mummy:
1. Stick on toer eyes.
2. Wrap the glass with the gauze bandage. Keep your eyes out.
3. Fix the end with adhesive tape.
You need it for the little candy bags:
- Glass
- cardboard box
- pencil
- Hobby scissors
- napkin
- Malercrep
- felt-tip pen
And that's how easy it is:
1. Using a glass, draw a circle on cardboard.
2. Cut out the circle.
3. Spread paper napkin. Place the circle, which acts as a floor, in the middle of it, distribute the sweets on it and put the four corners together.
4. Wrap the corners with the Malercrep to create the pumpkin style.
5. If necessary, you can now paint the pumpkin with a felt-tip pen.
That's what you need for the pumpkin's face:
- 1 pumpkin
- candle
- Lace cake or vegetable knife
- spoon
- pencil
It's that easy:
1. Cut the lid off the pumpkin and hollow out the pumpkin with a spoon.
2. Draw two triangles as eyes and mouth with teeth with a pencil and cut out with a knife.
3. Put the candle in the pumpkin.
You need this for the invitation / wind light:
- DIN A 4 sheets of solid tracing paper in orange (eg from Jerwitz)
- black photo carton
- Adhesive (eg UHU)
- white tracing paper
- black decorative pencil (eg from Edding)
- Photo carton in orange
- black envelopes
It's that easy:
1. Cut a 12.5 cm wide strip from orange transparent paper (DIN A 4). On one narrow side, carefully scrape a 1 cm wide strip (addition) with the cutter and fold. At a distance of 7.2 cm, score 3 more times and fold so that 4 equal-sized fields and the 1 cm wide edge are created. Apply adhesive to the 1 cm wide addition, allow to dry slightly and fold inwards. Glue the lantern together.
2. Cut different bats and pumpkins out of black cardboard and glue them onto the lantern.
3. For the band, cut out a strip (8 x 30 cm) of white tracing paper. To fold the merged lantern and stick together.
4. Label stripes with the invitation text.
5. Cut an approx. 10 x 7 cm pumpkin out of orange photocard, stick it on the envelope and provide it with the address.
