As a kid growing up we never really did anything for Halloween, my Mum wasn't really a believer of it, heck I don't even remember us carving a pumpkin. As a parent myself now even though I don't really like the idea of Callum going trick or treating I don't mind us having kids to the door doing it (well as long as they are kids, are dressed up and are of course nice and polite) and I do love us having a pumpkin to carve and Callum getting dressed up.
So that's what we've done. I found a site where we could print spooky halloween masks from and then we could decorate them to our liking. I of course have glitterfied mine. Then instead of elasticating the back Daz suggested we make them as masquerade masks so we have used some skewers, some drinking straws and of course the ever useful sellotape (where would we be without sellotape in our lives?) we've threaded the skewers inside the straws, sellotaped the top and bottom so the skewers won't fall out and then sellotaped them to the back of our masks. All done! Simple. As you can see from the link you do have the option to cut out the eyes etc but to do this we worked out you needed a craft knife and we didn't have one (or something similar) and so opted for having the eyes left in.
As well as masks we have a small pumpkin to carve. Callum had drawn a face on that he wanted carved into the mask but he'd made the eyes and mouth too small so I enlarged them and made it a little more spooky although maybe this glitter penned cheesy smiling pumpkin did have a scary creepy look to it.
So there's our halloween art project done and the evening is left for us to answer the door to trick or treater's and dish out the sweets. Hope you all have a lovely Halloween.
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