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Top 10 Spooktacular Halloween DIY Crafts & Projects To Try This Season
Perfect for Halloween parties, celebrating at home or even in the classroom, our 10 favourite Halloween craft ideas and Halloween baking inspiration have you covered when it comes to having fun with your spooky holiday celebrations.
We love everything handmade, so why not try making some of your own Halloween décor this year? You can find a great range of materials and tools to recreate these incredible Halloween crafts - check out our favourite Halloween projects below! Whether it's costumes, tableware or crafty ideas, Spotlight has everything you need to celebrate Halloween this year.
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- Devilishly Delicious Halloween Cookies
- Shockingly Halloween Cupcakes
- Terrifyingly Tasty Halloween Fault Line Cake
- Eerie Halloween Eyeballs
- Creepy Crochet Halloween Ornaments
- Keep Track Of Time With A Halloween Advent Calendar
- Spine-Chilling Halloween Slime
- A Halloween Quilt To Cosy Up With
- Fabric Pumpkins For An Adorable Twist
- Create A Halloween Cape For The Perfect DIY Costume
Halloween Baking Projects
Not only do these Halloween baking projects provide an entertaining activity, they are also great for providing homemade treats for your party guests to enjoy or take home as a party favour.
1. Devilishly Delicious Halloween Cookies
Using a biscuit mix, these cookies are easy to recreate even for those inexperienced chefs! Whether you're baking desserts in preparation for your Halloween party or looking for a fun decorating activity to incorporate into your celebrations, these cookies are an exceptional option. To save time during your party activities, consider baking these cookies prior to your event and setting up a "decorating station" for guests to decorate their cookies with icing, sprinkles and any other decorations of their choice. This Halloween baking project is not only a fun activity to keep your guests busy during your Halloween party, it also gives them a tasty party favour to eat or take home with them to enjoy later!
2. Shocking Halloween Cupcakes
Bake cupcakes for your next Halloween party and have your guests helping themselves to your delicious dessert table. Perfect for both amateur chefs and experienced bakers, simply follow the provided instructions on the cake mix to create the cupcakes. You may swap out the cake mix to a flavour of your choice, if you wish. Alternatively, you can also add food colouring to your frosting for a lively colourful touch.
Once you've got your frosting, use a piping bag to decorate each cupcake and top it off with a spooky Halloween themed lolly. For those wishing to expand their piping bag skills, check out our how to use a piping bag article for more tips and tricks that will have you icing your cupcakes like a professional.
3. Terrifyingly Tasty Halloween Fault Line Cake
This creepy cake can serve as an eye-catching centrepiece for your Halloween celebration, thanks to its bright colours and spooky design. The flavour of the cake itself can be any kind you want - we recommend a red velvet or dark chocolate cake for added drama when the cake is cut open!
If your cake-decorating skills are a little rusty, read our guides on decorating cakes and cake-decorating tools - they contain heaps of great information on all the ways you can decorate a cake, as well as a few handy cake-decorating tips that will turn you into a cake decorating pro in no time!
Halloween Crafting Projects
Host a Halloween party or celebrate at home with our favourite Halloween craft ideas. Great for beginner or intermediate crafters, these projects will spark your creativity and have you celebrating the spooky season with fun and engaging activities.
4. Eerie Halloween Eyeballs
Combine your love for the spooky holiday and your love of crochet with one of our favourite Halloween crafts, crochet Halloween eyeballs. Great for beginner crocheters looking to showcase their craft skills, this project results in creepy crochet eyeballs that offer a multitude of uses. These eyeballs are particularly excellent as "eye-catching" decorations displayed in any corner of your home. Fill a bowl with them or put them in treat buckets for a spooky surprise!
5. Creepy Crochet Halloween Ornaments
For intermediate crocheters for beginner crocheters looking for nice challenging Halloween craft this season, the Halloween ornament project infuses a spooky charm into your next crafting endeavour. This project outlines how to recreate both the ghost and pumpkin figurines, providing you variety in your art. Complete with a threaded loop, these ornaments are easy to incorporate into your home decorations for a subtle finishing touch to your space. They are also great gifts for your friend or loved ones, thanking them for attending your Halloween party and can even be handed out as additional presents to trick or treaters on Halloween night.
6. Keep Track Of Time With A Halloween Advent Calendar
Countdown the days until October with this artistic Halloween craft. Not only does this calendar enable you to keep track of time, it is also designed to hold a small gift for you to enjoy as you countdown each day. Whether you're crafting the advent calendar for yourself, a friend or a child, you can use the Halloween themed paper pad of your choice to create a lively design. Fill each pocket with a wrapped sweet treat to commemorate your countdown.
From sewing machines to ribbons, Spotlight has everything you need to recreate this beginner Halloween craft project.
7. Spine-Chilling Halloween Slime
A craft project beloved by most school-aged children, making Halloween themed slime helps to exercise fine motor skills while having a blast! It also results in a gooey textured craft that can even be incorporated into your Halloween decor. Simply display in cauldron to appear as though a witch has travelled to your home and brewed a terrifying potion.
At Spotlight, you'll be able to find a number of slime craft kits including a variety of different coloured glitter glues to help bring your Halloween craft vision to life!
Halloween Sewing Projects
At Spotlight, you can find a great range of Halloween fabrics, perfect for crafting decorations and costumes. Looking to show your sewing skills? Look no further than our favourite Halloween sewing projects.
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8. A Halloween Quilt To Cosy Up With
Halloween is not just for trick or treating and decorating your front yard. It's for celebrating all things scary, including horror movies. And there's no better companion for a scary movie night than a cosy quilt to shield yourself from the jumpscares while staying snug and warm. This quilt is crafted from Halloween fabric to infuse a spooky touch into your selection of bed linen while offering an additional layer to your bed or couch.
Great for intermediate quilters, this project features a layered design and comprises a variety of different shapes all connected together to complete the final product.
Download Halloween Quilt Project
9. Fabric Pumpkins For An Adorable Twist
Offering a twist on traditional scary Halloween decorations, this Halloween fabric pumpkin project will inject a cosy and comforting touch into your home decor this spooky season. Resulting in a soft pumpkin-shaped decor, these fabric pumpkins are great additions to your home decor and can even be incorporated into your cushion arrangement on your sofa, armchair or bed. Choosing the Halloween fabric of your choice, this project is easy to recreate, even for beginner sewers!
10. Create A Halloween Cape For The Perfect DIY Costume
This simple cape is an excellent addition to any Halloween costume and is easy to make for most sewers. You can substitute fabrics to make a vampire's cape or a witch's mantle to suit your costuming needs. And pair it with some vampire face paint or some Halloween bat boxes to take the vampire costume to the next level!
If you're new to sewing and want to make sure you're prepared, read our buying guides on dressmaking fabrics, dressmaking tools and sewing needles - they have all the information you need for making your own clothing and costumes.
Have A Spooky Halloween With Spotlight!
No matter if you are be-heading out for trick or treating or settling in for a night of snacks and scary movies, Spotlight has everything you need to make your frightful night a success. From ready made costumes and costume sewing patterns, our Halloween hub has you covered on all things Halloween. Check out our Halloween hub online for Halloween tricks, treats and inspiration. Or, step into your local store and our friendly team will help you find all the Halloween costumes and Halloween craft supplies you need.
