Tag: Halloween

Origami Witch

It’s been a while since we shared an origami fold, so here is a video of Helen T making an origami witch.

You will need:

  • Lightweight coloured papers
  • Black felt tip pen
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick

How to make your witch:

Witches hat and face:

  1. Take your first square of paper for your hat. Fold it in half diagonally and unfold.
  2. Fold each side inwards to form a kite shape, aligning the outer edges with the diagonal fold. Unfold again.
  3. Next fold in the out corners to match the new diagonal folds. See the video for more clarity.
  4. Now fold the side in again to make the kite shape once more.
  5. Fold the sharp point down to meet its opposite corner.
  6. Then fold the sharp point back up with a little less than a cm difference. Then fold this over again. This forms the brim of your witches hat.
  7. Turn your work over, fold the bottom point up to meet the fold on the reverse.
  8. Fold in either side to form the shape of your witches face.
  9. Trace around the shape of your witches face on a scrap of paper. It should be a trapezium.
  10. Tuck this into the folds of the witches face / hair and draw on a face.

Witches body and broom:

  1. Take your second square of paper. Fold it in half diagonally each way, unfold, then fold in half edge to edge one way.
  2. With the paper in half, fold down the folded edge toward the centre, creating a triangle.
  3. Next take the folded flaps and turn the the edge in the centre up to the edge of the triangle. Do this on both sides.
  4. Turn your work over. Fold down the the outer top edges to form a square, turn your work over again.
  5. To form your witches feet, turn the bottom two points up and out over.
  6. Next make your broom, cut a small square of brown paper and cut multiple slits into it to form bristles. Cut a strip of paper and using a glue stick, wrap the bristles around one end.

Assemble your witch!

  1. Using your glue stick, stick your witches head to the body.
  2. To complete, stick the broom to one of your witches arms.

And you’re done! Make multiple to create origami bunting or change the size of your paper to create a witch / warlock family.

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Everlasting Jack O’lanterns

We love Halloween at Heathlands! Dressing up, carving pumpkins and caramel apples are all favourites.

The thing about pumpkins though… they don’t last forever. So! We thought we’d share with you how you can make an everlasting pumpkin!

You will need:

  • 1 piece of A4 orange card
  • 1 piece of A4 green card
  • Two split pins / paper fasteners
  • Scissors
  • A ruler
  • A hole punch or something to make holes in your card
  • A pencil
  • A black felt tip pen

How to make your pumpkin:

  1. Along the long sides of your orange card make marks in 3cm intervals and join them up using your ruler.
  2. Cut 8 strips of orange card.
  3. Cut a piece of green card for a stalk. We have put a picture below to show the S shape we used.
  4. Put holes in each end of every strip of card and in one end of the stalk.
  5. Put the stalk onto a paper fastener first and then thread all of the card board strips on at one end. Spilt the pin and flatten it out.
  6. Use the other paper fastener to connect together all the other ends.
  7. Twist / turn the layers out to form your pumpkin.
  8. Use your felt tip to give your pumpkin a face!

Spooktacular Halloween Lantern Jars

We are getting in a spooky mood here at Heathlands with the run up to Halloween. Today we’ve mean making tealight jars, inspired by Helen W’s tissue paper lantern jars that can be found here!

You will need:

  • A glass jar
  • PVA Glue watered down. Around 50:50 is perfect.
  • A paintbrush
  • Tissue paper. White and black for a ghost and orange and black for a pumpkin.
  • Scissors
  • A pencil
  • Some scrap paper or newsprint to work on.

How to make your Halloween jar:

  1. Decide what style of jar you are making and pick appropriately coloured tissue paper.
  2. Water down your PVA and mix well.
  3. Cut your tissue paper into 2-3cm squares.
  4. Paint a little of your jar at a time and make one even layer of tissue paper all over. Making sure there are no gaps.
  5. Use a hairdryer if you want to speed up the drying process, or leave overnight to set.
  6. Fold a small piece of black tissue paper in half and from the folded edge draw a mouth. Also draw an eye shape. Cut these out, the mouth should be one piece and symmetrical, you should have two eyes that match.
  7. Glue these on and paint another layer of glue all over. Leave to dry.
  8. Put a tealight in your jar and place it in your window!

Terrifying Tassels!

Do you remember a while back we shared a post showing how to make tassels? We thought we’d re-visit that idea to make some terrifying Halloween decorations!

You will need:

  • Yarn (white for ghosts, orange for pumpkins)
  • A piece of cardboard (ours was about 17 x 7 cm for the ghost and 9 x 7 cm for the pumpkin)
  • Scissors
  • Felt scraps
  • Glue (PVA or fabric glue is best)
  • Yarn or thick thread

Step 1.

Cut your cardboard to size, the length of your piece of cardboard determines the length of the tassel.

Step 2.

Begin wrapping your yarn around your cardboard.

Step 3.

Keep wrapping! The more wraps you have the thicker your tassel will be.

Step 4.

Cut a piece of yarn or thread and slide it under one half of the wraps. Tie the wraps tightly together at one end. Leave the ends of the yarn you’ve used to tie it up to hang the tassel up with

Step 5.

Cut the wraps at the opposite end of the cardboard.

Step 6.

Cut another piece of yarn and use it wrap a section of the tassel about 3 cm from the top to make a head.

Step 7.

Cut eyes and a mouth from the felt and stick them onto the ‘head’ to make a face.

Step 8.

Hang up your spooky creations and enjoy!

Hallowe’en Pumpkin Soup

This warming soup is spooktacular for hallowe’en night. It’s also lactose and gluten free! If you can’t get a pumpkin, you can substitute with butternut squash.

Ingredients:

1 medium or large pumpkin depending on how many you are cooking for

1 white onion

2 carrots

1tsp salt

1tsp ground ginger

1tsp ground cinnamon

Vegetable stock cube

1 tbsp  olive oil

200ml coconut milk / lactose free cream

Method:

  1. Finely dice the onion and start to gently fry with your olive oil in a large soup pan.
  2. Prepare your pumpkin by removing seeds, ect and skin, dice and add to the pan.
  3. Peel and dice the carrots and add to the pan. Keep stirring as you fry and add your spice, cook for around 5 minutes.
  4. Boil a kettle and add water to the pan, so that the vegetables are covered by 1-2 inches of water. Simmer for 1/2 an hour.
  5. Blend your soup using a food processor or stick blender.
  6. You can add coconut milk or cream for a little luxury and if you’re feeling fancy, why not try a spiders web like in the picture!