Monster Straw Toppers

With Halloween only a few days away, are you expecting ghoulish guests with sugar pangs, wings and fangs?

Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster Drawing Machine, by Michael Slack

Being Australian we’re doing a pre trick or treat BBQ (any excuse to fire up the old stack of bricks!) This is the craft activity we’ll have on hand for the little zombies, witches and ghost busters. Cardboard monsters on paddle pops for the kids to colour in.

Inspired by these Alisa Burke toilet roll monsters, straw toppers to keep the little monsters hydrated.

What’s happening with the aqua roll in the middle? Looks like he’s about to blow his top!

Pastel pencils used, coloured in by daughter.

A few of my own characters…

Printable Monsters

Copy, cut and colour

Glue to straws with craft glue

Just add juice and enjoy!

Halloween Window Display

Dancing in a red dress, out on the wiley, windy moors, Kate Bush eerily sang the haunting tale of Wuthering Heights…
Heathcliff, it’s me–Cathy.
Come home. I’m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Inspired by the Emily Bronte novel and an Elena Originals Cathy Doll, I set about making a haunting Halloween window display.

Started off by sketching Cathy onto tracing paper then transferred her to brown cardboard. Used stencil knife to make a Cathy stencil.

Lightly glued the stencil onto a large sheet of butchers paper and made a black acrylic paint and water mix (1:10) and sprayed over the stencil. The ghost of Cathy, tormenting Heathcliff to his dying day…

The brown cardboard bled into the backing paper. Cathy was turning into a vampire!

A banner and a bunch of hanging garlic later and this is what will greet my trick or treaters this year!

Next post will have photos of Halloween decorations and a few how to’s. Here’s a taste..

How to make little witchy hat, click here…

http://mykidcraft.com/little-witchy-hat

Paper People

Malin Koort is a Swedish illustrator, designer and artist.

Her illustrations tell stories, ‘mostly about small people and big feelings.’

These photos are a few from her ‘Paper People’ series. If a picture says more than a thousand words, what do you think is happening here?

Here are some of my suggestions….

Here are a few Malin Koort paper people my daughter and I coloured in with pastels and coloured pencils…

Malin Koort inpired paper family of my in laws, for the kids to colour in whilst mum and dad are having mojitos in Manhattan! 

How to…

Bon voyage (you lucky, lucky lady!!)

Rainbow Unicorn

Four months, x stitches and one baby later and it seems I really can’t do without it. Craft.

When we left for the hospital we left a gift for daughter from pending son (this seems to be the rage in sibling rivalry diversion). A rainbow unicorn waited with her, sparkling through the days and the nights whilst mum was laid up in hospital. Here’s the story behind rainbow unicorn.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful unicorn and a dangerous dinosaur.

Then a superhero came to rescue unicorn and they lived happily ever after. The end.

Then there were two!

If only rainbow unicorn was more like Lady Unicorn from Adventure time – all in one unicorn and superhero!