Thanksgiving was great this year (as always)!  Loads of family, friends, food, laughter and then double gobble more of it!  The next day my family and I all went for a stroll through the park to digest our feast and we found all these fallen leaves on the ground.  I thought the branches would’ve been bare by now, but no, not yet!  We got lucky.  The fallen leaves looked like feathers to me so we had an idea to make them into Turkeys!

Meet Leafy Turkey

We glued on some googley eyes to make them extra silly, but I’m sure you can come up with something just as good without them. Oh, maybe a nut fallen from the tree?  What do you think?

I know Halloween just passed, but since I was on this kick of transforming fallen objects into artwork when I saw the stick I thought of a broom.  Put a flying lady on it and you have a witch!  What do you think a stick could turn into?  Anything is possible!  Please share with Scribble Blog your fallen object creations.

A Sticky Witch

Thank you Thanksgiving for the fun, family, and more crafty ideas : )  Gobble.

A Sitting Leafy Turkey

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Happy Halloween, everybody! What are you being this year? After all the build up, the day is finally here. Unfortunately, I think Frankenstorm (appropriately named for the holiday, no?) has overshadowed the fun of Halloween.

Lots of people are still without power, many are dealing with damage to their homes, and Halloween has had to take a bit of a backseat. That okay, though. Just because Hurricane Sandy has decided to crash our Halloween party, doesn’t mean we can’t still have a spooktacular day!

If your plans have been canceled, your transportation is shut down, or your neighborhood has seen too much damage to host trick-or-treating, here are some ideas for a safe and celebratory Halloween day.

- Storm damage is pretty scary in itself! If you’re somewhere you can pitch in with the cleanup, take a little time today to help out.

- Park it on the couch and have a scary movie marathon, complete with candy treats.

- Try out some of our awesome and spooky crafts here and on the Scribble Shop Blog.

- Already have your costumes, but can’t really go out trick-or-treating? Have a family costume party wherever you are!

- Didn’t have time to put together your costumes with all the hurricane hoopla? Challenge your family to a makeshift costume contest with items found around the house.

- Create Halloween cards for friends and loved ones to brighten their somewhat gloomy week.

- If you’re still without power, use the darkness for some Halloween fun. Grab the flashlights and candles and make up some ghost stories to tell! Even if you have electricity, just turn your lights off for scary story time.

And if you’re able to carry on with your regularly scheduled Halloween programming, go for it! Do you have any ideas for some last-minute indoor holiday fun? Let us know! Have a safe and fun day!

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If Halloween had an official animal mascot, I think it’d have to be the spider. Okay, also maybe the black cat, but we’re going to focus on spiders for now. We’ve had a few crafts this month spotlighting the spider and I think this one is a pretty perfect combination of creepy and clever.

If you’re looking to showcase some festive and unique décor in honor of Halloween (and a creative scribbler like you might as well!), then it is time to check out these spider web balloons!

You’ll need clear latex balloons, small rubber spiders, a product called Hi-Float to help create the spider webs, and air or helium. The project isn’t time consuming at all, but you will need two days so the Hi-Float can dry overnight. Check out this tutorial at Crafty Crafty for directions.

 Photo: Crafty Crafty

Halloween is such a perfect time to flex those creative crafting muscles. Between costumes, decorations, and treats… there’s no limit to how many spooky, delightful, funny, or tasty homemade creations you can come up with.

Have you already started decorating? Do you have any spooktacular crafts to share? We’d love to hear how you’re gearing up for the fun day.

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Are you having a Halloween party this year? Since my birthday is a week before Halloween, fun décor and party favors always catch my eye. While I haven’t mixed the holiday with my birthday celebrations in recent years, I have plenty of fun memories from my childhood spooky theme parties.

Obviously, tasty treats, candy or otherwise, have to be included in the festivities. A great substitute or addition to any basic goodie bag is this clever candy hand! You can get creative and fill them with whatever you like, but here are some cute ideas.

They key is to fill out the hand form, especially the fingers, like in the two examples below. One uses rolls of Smarties for the fingers and the other uses candy corn as fingernails. Both are adorable and work to pronounce the digits! Now on to the palm… you could certainly just stuff it with an assortment of candy… that’s what Halloween’s all about, no? You could also fill it with popcorn if you want to lighten up on the sugar. Tie it off with some ribbon… or a bandage if you want! And try accessorizing with a fun spider ring to finish off the look.

Photo: Preschool Alphabet

 Photo: Pinterest User

 What creative snacks do you whip up for Halloween? Maybe some spider pops? Are you looking forward to trying any new treats this year?

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So it’s the middle of October! Are we preparing for Halloween yet? These creepy crawly spider lollipops from House of Baby Piranha are a perfect treat for the spooky day! They could be great favors or snacks at a Halloween party… or even an extra-special treat for trick-or-treaters.

All you’ll need are your favorite lollipops, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and glue. Just twist a pipe cleaner tightly around the base of the lollipop stick (make sure each side is even) and repeat this three more times so you have four pipe cleaners making eight legs. Bend the ends of each spider leg to finish the look. Then glue on two eyes and you’re all done!

Photo: House of Baby Piranha

 Do you have any fun Halloween treats that are both spookily festive and tasty? Any plans to make the most of the holiday that combines all things creepy and candy?

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Hello, hello and happy weekend everybody! With October in full swing, the Halloween decorations are starting to emerge. The classic Jack-o-Lantern is certainly tried and true, but I’m loving all the fun twists out there on the spooky pumpkin face. Some are funny, cute, silly, scary—but this one is all of those things at once!

How adorable is this vampire pumpkin? Nothing like a big set of chompers on a tiny pumpkin to get a laugh—and it’s super simple to make your own. For directions, check out the step-by-step tutorial from Martha Stewart. They even have a mouth template to cut the perfect size hole for plastic fangs!

Have you tried any clever twists on the classic Jack-o-Lantern? Got some in mind you’re going to try this year? We’d love to see!

Have a frightfully fabulous weekend!

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The past few weeks our Scribblers have been looking for fall inspiration! While our crafters were toying around with supplies and crafts, I reflected on some of the fun fall season crafts we made last year!

We made a Ghoul Garden, a Halloween Shadowbox, a Frankenstein container, Pumpkin Garland, Pumpkin Puppets, Goodie bags and Ghoulish Goodie Bags!

If you missed any of our posts, just click on the links above and Get Scribbley!

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Hi Scribblers!

We had so much fun at the Pumpkin Festival this past weekend. With the snow, the weather was a bit of a surprise, but we still had fun getting scribbley and making crafts!

If you missed us at the event you still make your own Pumpkin themed crafts at home!

Make a Goodie Bag!

Make a Pumpkin Puppet!

Just click on the images, download and print!

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Hi Scribblers!

The past few weeks has kept us busy getting Scribbley!

Ghoulishly Fun Crafts!

We made a Ghoul Garden, a Halloween Shadowbox, a Frankenstein container, Pumpkin Garland, Pumpkin Puppets, Goodie bags and Ghoulish Goodie Bags!

If you missed any of our posts, just click on the links above and Get Scribbley!

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Hi Scribblers!

Carlos and Tubber have been busy carving their pumpkins, but as usual, Eraser Man is up to his sneaky tricks!

Get Scribbley with a Jack O'Lantern

Check out what the scribblers are up to and teach your little ones about Zigzag lines! Just click on the image, download and print!

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