To make a balloon jack-o-lantern, you need:

• Orange tissue paper
• White glue (watered down)
• Paintbrush
• Black or yellow construction paper
• Green ribbon (not pictured)

This is a pretty easy Halloween craft for kids, too.

Start by ripping your tissue paper into small, irregular pieces, no bigger than about 2" x 2". As you can see, even the baby is "helping" with this one!

Affix the tissue paper pieces to the balloon by brushing on a layer of watered-down glue, pressing the paper on, and then covering with another layer of glue. Overlap the paper to cover all of the balloon.

Since our balloon was a pretty dark color, we did about three layers of tissue paper to make our jack-o-lantern nice and orange.

Cut the jack-o-lantern face out of construction paper and glue to your pumpkin.

Hang the craft up using green ribbon, and curl some to fall around the top like pumpkin vines.

Construction paper and pipe cleaners are about all you need for this paper pumpkin craft.

We’ve really gotten into decorating for both Halloween and autumn around here.  The dining room as a definite silly/spooky Halloween vibe, while the living room has more of a sophisticated “harvest” theme.  Just because it’s more grown up doesn’t mean there aren’t any kid crafts in there, with these simple pumpkins being a great example.

What you need to make paper strip pumpkins:

• Orange construction paper
• Scrap of green construction paper
• Green pipe cleaner
• Scissors
• Tape
• Stapler

Most of these craft supplies are right on hand!

Cut your paper lengthwise into strips. The width is up to you. We did 11 strips for our each pumpkin.

Fan the strips out and staple them at the gathering point. Then tape the two fans together.

Cut out a leaf and hole punch it at the bottom.

Hole punch each strip on the non-attached end. Bring them all together at the top and feed a green pipe cleaner through them and the leaf before twisting it to hold everything in place. Curl the pipe cleaner around your finger or a pen to look like pumpkin vines.

Use your paper pumpkins to add color and fun to your Halloween or harvest decorations.

You may notice a couple of our other autumn crafts in this picture, like the autumn leaf garland and paper bag pumpkin!

If you are looking for pumpkin templates, check out:

Cartoon Pumpkin Templates (Disney, Scooby Doo, Hello Kitty, etc.)

Scary Pumpkin Templates

Animal Pumpkin Templates

Cute Pumpkin Templates

Funny Pumpkin Templates

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Related Pages: Pig Coloring Pages, Printable Pig Mask

What you’ll need to make your own piggy ears scrap felt craft:

• Pink felt
• White batting
• Headband
• Scissors
• Glue (we used hot glue, but if you’re more patient, your kiddo can totally do this with white glue)

Scrap supplies for this toddler craft.

Cut the pink felt into two diamonds. We folded it in half and cut out a triangle. (You get to learn about two shapes at once!)

Cut two triangles, a bit smaller than the pink ones, from your scrap batting.

Add glue to one side of the diamond and wrap it around the headband.

Fold it in half and then add the other ear to bring your piggy costume to life.

Glue on the batting.

You can't tell me that's not the cutest thing you've seen all day.

What I Learned the Hard Way: We were totally making this up on the fly, so I didn’t think to measure the ears out in advance; and they’re a little on the big side.  One of my friends suggested that maybe we were playing Olivia from the children’s books.  Yeah…that’s…that’s totally what I was going for!

Make a cute, no-sew tutu in less than an hour!

OK, OK.  My kid doesn’t really need another tutu.  But I saw this tutorial and just had to make one.  I did mine a little differently than hers, but she gets all the credit for the idea (and even the color choice).  You can never have too many tutus, right?

What You Need to Make a Tutu

• 3 spools of 6″ tulle (15 yards each)
• 3/4″ elastic (I’d consider going with 1/2″ next time)
• safety pin
• scissors (or a rotary cutter)

Supplies needed to make a tutu.

I chose a light purple, a dark purple, and a light yellow.  (I know, they look blue in the picture.)

Measure your kiddo’s waist and then take off about two inches.  I left extra on the end and used a safety pin instead of sewing the ends together.  That way I can adjust it to be bigger as she grows.

Attach the ends of the elastic and leave a couple of inches to tuck in as you work.

Cut your tulle into 18″ pieces.  They will be folded in half and knotted, so this leaves about eight inches sticking out when all is said and done.

If you want a longer skirt on your tutu, just increase the length of the tulle pieces.

I chose to alternate colors in my tutu.  I stacked a dark purple on top of a light purple and folded them in half, scrunching them up in the middle.  The knot was formed by wrapping the loop around the elastic and the pulling the loose ends through.  I then alternated and did one that was a single piece of yellow tulle.  Work your way around, bunching them fairly close together.  They’re a little loose in this picture, but I slid them closer together as I got toward the end.

Work your way around the elastic to fill in the tutu.

How to make a tutu!

I’m satisfied with our simple tutu for now but I’m thinking that if you wanted to take a wide ribbon, fold it over the top, and stitch it down, you could have a finished looking waist band.  (Then I’d probably tack on some ribbons and flowers and get really fancy.)

This tutu is adorable all the way around!

What I Learned the Hard Way: After cutting the first spool with scissors, I decided to get out my quilting mat and rotary cutter, and it went quite a bit faster.  It’s not necessary, but I found cutting the pieces to be a bit tedious.

Making Masks

Related Pages: Printable Halloween Masks, Printable Masquerade Masks, Last Minute Halloween Costumes

Masquerade Mask Craft Materials List

Black crafting foam sheet

Colored crafting feathers

Fake flower petals

Hot glue gun plus Elmer’s glue

Glitter

Elastic thread or ribbon

Mask template:

Printable Mask Template

How to Make Masquerade Masks

Print out the mask template and trace it onto your foam craft sheet. I suppose you could make a more temporary mask if you printed out onto card stock (which is why I gave you two color choices). But I honestly don’t know how well it would hold up on paper. Just sayin’.

Cut out the mask from the foam:

Cut Out Eye Mask Template

You can’t see it very well in the photo, but I also poked holes on the sides to add elastic when done.

Pick out feathers that you can glue symmetrically to both sides of the mask. I chose three colors and made sure that each color had a ‘twin’ that was about the same length and width. Once you have enough to go around the edges, start gluing them in place with the hot glue gun. I used 10 feathers in my masquerade mask, because I didn’t want them pointing down and tickling the heck out of my face.

Glueing Feathers to the Masquerade Mask

This part doesn’t need to be particularly neat or pretty – it will soon get covered up.

Arranging feathers on the mask

After the feathers are in place, cut some petals from a fake flower into the shape you want. I used two almost half circles for each side and a small group of four petals for the center top of the mask.

Adding Flower Petals to the Mask

Glue the petals over the feather stems with the hot glue gun.

Gluing Petals to the Feather Mask

Here’s the mask with all the feathers and petals hot-glued in place:

Mask with all petals and feathers in place

Now it’s time to break out the Elmer’s glue – the hot glue gun won’t work for this part. Use a generous amount to cover up the base of the petals, being very careful to make a precise outline around the eye holes:

Gluing the glitter onto the masquerade mask

Then put it onto a piece of paper and dump a ton of glitter on your glue.

Glitter Dump on Mask

And just leave it there until it dries.

I know it’s hard. Don’t touch it.

But when it’s dry – you’re pretty much done!

Masquerade Mask Craft

Simply slip some elastic thread or ribbon in your holes and wear it with glee!

Check out all of the Woo! Jr. Halloween kids activities while you are here!

I don’t get to draw too often these days anymore, so when I get to put up a post with my own hand-drawn artwork, I get way excited. :) So if you use these, I’d be even happier if you uploaded a picture of your project in the comments on this page!

Special printing note: PLEASE do a test run on your printer’s draft setting before you print these out onto your expensive iron-on-transfer paper! You may need to adjust your printer settings to get these at the size you want. At the VERY least, use the Print Preview!!

Related Pages: Halloween Paper Toys, Vintage Halloween Cards, Hello Kitty Pumpkin Stencils

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These Halloween iron ons also match our printable Halloween animal masks and these printable Halloween cupcake toppers/stickers!

***These iron ons are for personal use only. No commercial usage or unauthorized reproduction allowed.***

These gorgeous vintage Halloween postcards are free and printable – I’m dying to come up with some kids crafts to make with them (hint: stay tuned)!

Related Pages: Printable Halloween Masks, Black Cat Halloween Crafts, Scary Pumpkin Stencils

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Check out all of our Halloween kids activities, printables and crafts from Woo! Jr.

Usage Guidelines

I tend to get lots of questions about how Woo! Jr. Network printables can be used – and I’m sure to get tons more after posting these! So here’s a little FAQ as to what you can do with this vintage artwork:

You may use these printables in crafts and artwork that you sell.

You may use these printables for educational and personal projects.

You may not repost these printables on your own website without permission. I spend hours scanning and retouching these images and according to public domain copyright, can retain publishing rights to this work.

You may repost a sample image -as long as you link back to this post- if you want to spread the word about these vintage freebies!

Please email me if you are unsure these usage guidelines cover the project you have in mind.

I’ve tried to find Cricut craft projects that don’t require a big investment in more cartridges, though some do, of course. Several of them offer free template downloads or instructions on how to create the projects on your own. Also, some of these patterns are just as easily made on other paper cutting craft tools, such as the Gypsy and Cuttlebug.

Related Pages: Printable Box Templates, Printable Vintage Postcards, Printable Dragon Paper Craft

Cricut Paper Crafts

Cricut Paper Purse	Cricut Robot Papercraft	Pretty Cricut Cupcake Wrappers	Cricut Paper Flowers Craft

Halloween Cricut Crafts

Cricut Halloween Decorations	Cricut Paper Pumpkins	Decorated Halloween Candles	Halloween Door Hangers

Thanksgiving Cricut Crafts

Cricut Thanksgiving Turkey Craft	Cricut Thanksgiving Pie Favor Boxes	Cricut Thanksgiving Place Cards	Thanksgiving Paper Banners

Christmas Cricut Crafts

Paper Cutting Christmas Ornaments	Cricut Glitter Snowflakes	Christmas Mouse Candy Cane Holders	Cricut Paper Christmas Scene

Valentines Day Cricut Crafts

Cricut Valentine Treat Bag Toppers	Cricut Strawberry Valentine Treats	Cricut Valentine Cards	Cricut Valentines Day Banner

Easter Cricut Crafts

Cricut Spring Flower Easter Treats	Cricut Easter Bunny Basket	Cricut Easter Egg Holder	Cricut Easter Place Cards

Check out more paper cutting crafts while you are here, too!

Pippi Longstocking Braids	Swim Noodle Spider Costume	Homemade Umbrella Bat Costume	Easy Homemade Eyeball Costume
Toilet Paper Mummy Costume	Nerd Costume	Homemade Lego Costume	Easy Ghost Costume
Cotton Ball Sheep Costume	Easy Bubble Bath Costume	Clark Kent / Superman Costume	Easy Ladybug Costume

Find more last minute Halloween costume ideas at Blissfully Domestic. And be sure to check out our Halloween coloring pages, Halloween printables, and pumpkin stencils, too!