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“Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble” (Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 10–11, Shakespeare)
Ever since Shakespeare coined those nefarious words, we have been captivated by the witches that cast their spells and giggled their evil laugh over a bubbling cauldron. They have become an eternal icon of Halloween and the witch with all her ill intentions has blackened the dark holiday of Halloween.
At least when it comes to the decorations and although we offer many, many crafts to turn your Halloween into the eternal scare fest, we are definitely not as nefarious as Shakespeare’s witches.
Sure, we do encourage that you toil over cauldrons of melted wax to create haunted candles. And we do call for recipes that include bats, spiders and ghoulish eyes but in the end, you aren’t creating a spell but an enchanting Halloween craft that is sure to delight everyone.
If you are like us, you probably love Halloween. You wait every year for the calendar to flip to October when you can start gathering all the supplies for your crafts. You toil endlessly on lawn decorations from scary tombstones, whispering ghosts and broken windows and you gather up your supplies to make grab bags for all the little ghouls and goblins that come to your home.
Don’t worry, you are not alone and to prove it, all you need to do is browse through our many pages. We love Halloween and more importantly, we love Halloween crafts. We feel that there is no reason why anyone should have to wait for the scariest season to start planning their thrills and chills and offer a year round resource for all your ghoulish plans.
There is nothing too sticky, too creepy or too magical that we don’t enjoy making and it can be all through the year, like little Nightmares Before Christmas, we create the many decorations, crafts, party supplies and everything in between that makes Halloween so completely spectacular.
So come and join us in our monsterific fun, grab your ghoul sticks, your witches broom, your scary googly eyes, your bat stamps and gummy worms and let’s gather around our cauldron, stirring, stirring, toiling and toiling until our wonderful and probably spooktacular crafts come to life. Share one, share all or simply use our ideas to create secret treasures for your family, friends and your home.
Welcome to our Halloween Craft site and please feel free to stay awhile.
Oct 12 2008
By Sirena Van Schaik
When I was younger, I didn’t really think much about finding a pumpkin. The grocery stores sold them so I would just pick up one or two as I was grocery shopping. No problem and really no thought went into my pumpkin hunt. Unfortunately, the pumpkins that I purchased were often flat, [...]
Oct 12 2008
By Sirena Van Schaik
Jack-o-Lanterns go with Halloween like chips go with fish. It is part and parcel of the whole thing but did you know, there is a significant increase to the number of people admitted to the hospital for lacerations due carving a pumpkin . The fact is, when you are carving a slippery [...]
Oct 11 2008
By Sirena Van Schaik
Despite all the new Halloween decorations that are available at stores across the country, I have found that the most important item you can have on your doorstep isn’t some screaming witch or twitching robot zombie but actually a well-carved Jack-o-Lantern. I have seen it over and over, the carefully decorated yard, [...]
Oct 11 2008
By Sirena Van Schaik
Fall has arrived and pumpkins have arrived with it but today, I’m not really looking at the pumpkins. Instead, I am looking at the cute little bags of gourds that are lining the produce section of your local grocery store.
Usually, these little treats are found in a bag of about 12 gourds. [...]
By Sirena Van Schaik
When I was younger, I didn’t really think much about finding a pumpkin. The grocery stores sold them so I would just pick up one or two as I was grocery shopping. No problem and really no thought went into my pumpkin hunt. Unfortunately, the pumpkins that I purchased were often flat, [...]
By Sirena Van Schaik
Jack-o-Lanterns go with Halloween like chips go with fish. It is part and parcel of the whole thing but did you know, there is a significant increase to the number of people admitted to the hospital for lacerations due carving a pumpkin . The fact is, when you are carving a slippery [...]
