We’ve already started crafting new additions for our decor. At the moment our garden room is an autumnal mix of fabric pumpkins, real squash of various persuasions, leaf bowls and this lovely autumn tree but it is definitely time to start adding the ghouls, ghosties and beasties for All Hallows Eve!
We started with the long legged lovely you can see over there to the right! Doesn’t she look sweet? Well, don’t be fooled, she’s not! She’s plotting all sorts of mischief and mayhem – the game’s afoot!
She’s very simple to make, we gathered together a selection of bits and pieces including felt in various witchy colours, a cardboard cone, google eyes, ribbons and buttons, stickers, pipe cleaners and glue. (If you haven’t got a cone you can make one very easily.)
The Munchkin Pumpkins aren’t strictly necessary but they create ‘the mood’ so necessary for a bit of crafting!
Wrap a piece of black felt around the pointy end of your cone to make a magnificent hat and glue into place (again, you may find this easier with a semi circle of felt).
Hey Presto – one Halloween Witch!
But wait – she needs something else, she’s missing a certain je ne sais quoi…
Wrap a cloak sized piece of felt around the body of your witch and glue into place. You may find this easier to fit to your cone with a semi circle of felt. Trim the bottom but leave enough to tuck up inside the cone so her cloak has a nice neat edge and glue into place. Of course, if yours is a raggedy witch with nary a care for appearance because there’s witching to be done, you can skip this neat tucking and leave your edges fashionably raw.
Bend a stripy pipe cleaner in half with an arch at the top so her legs aren’t too close together, she’s a witch who strides out rather than mincing about. Ours is shod in practical pumpkin boots cut from a pumpkin ribbon. We cut two for each shoe, glued one of them and folded the other over on top of it, trapping the end of her pipe cleaner leg in between.
Glue the top of your pipe cleaner arch just under her skirt – you may need to peg this into place while it’s drying.
Now all that remains to be done is to decorate her cloak and hat. Our witch is quite subtle because my children are older now but you can go mad here and turn her into the most glamorous, blinging witch in the world!
We glued buttons onto the front of her cloak and added sticker stars to her hat. Then most important of all, because all witches need a companion, we added a cat.
Shared with #CraftyOctober at The Purple Pumpkin Blog
What are you doing to me with these adorable Halloween crafts? This is such a sweet little witch – love it! Thanks for sharing on #CraftyOctober xx