Hey guys, I made paper decorations for Halloween
and here’s what I did.
For the first craft, I made these spiderweb houses.
I used the paper house templates
that I made last Christmas.
I printed the templates on cardstock and cut them out.
I left the windows uncut and I folded the tabs and sides.
Then, I painted the front of the house black.
I also painted the back of the chimney
and around all the edges,
so the cardstock color wouldn’t show.
After it dried, I added my design.
I made lines using a white pen and straight edge.
For the areas I wanted to make the spiderwebs,
I intersected 4 lines in 1 spot.
I aligned the sides of the house
and marked where to continue my lines.
I did the same thing to the roof.
With this pen, I did have to go over all the lines again
to get solid white lines.
Near the center of the spider web spot,
I connected each line with an arc.
I made longer arcs further away from the center.
Next, I glued the tabs and assembled the house.
You could leave the top tabs unglued
to add treats and a fake spider
and here’s how it turned out.
For the next paper craft, I made this bat wall hanging.
I used the bat template that I made last Halloween.
I printed it out and cut out my template.
Next, I traced the bat onto black cardstock
multiple times and cut them out.
I made 9 bats.
Then, I painted a dowel black.
This will be used to hang the bats.
I laid out the bats and cut long pieces of black yarn.
I cut 6 pieces for the 6 columns of bats.
Align the ends of the yarn to find the center.
Drape it over the dowel
and bring the ends through the loop created,
creating a lark’s head knot.
Repeat this with the rest of the yarn.
Next, I glued each bat to a piece of yarn.
Then, I hung the wall hanging.
I wrapped and knotted the other pieces of yarn
over the dowel.
Trim the extra yarn and your bat wall hanging is done.
For the third paper craft, I made a Halloween sign.
I wanted to add this text on my letter board,
but I didn’t have enough letters.
You could add letter stickers to a poster board,
use stencils to paint the letters,
or have the sign printed somewhere.
I definitely chose a tedious, time-consuming option.
I made the sign on a 14 x 17” Bristol board.
I typed out the text
and printed it on regular printer paper backwards.
Then, I went over each letter with a pencil.
I faced the letters of the printout toward the board.
Then, I pressed the letters with a pencil,
so that the letters would transfer onto the board.
I wanted the background to be black,
so I painted around each letter.
Then, I erased the pencil marks and hung my sign
and here’s how the Halloween
paper decorations turned out.