FunMare BefOre HaLloWeeN Blog Hop: Non-scary Halloween for toddlers

Hello everyone and welcome to the FunMarE BefOre HaLloWeeN blog hop. You must be arriving here from Madison's at http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/. The party starts at Jessica's at www.kinderstampo.com/. She told me that if you get lost on the hop, you can go back to her and she will show you the way, or you can check the blog list at the end of my post and, I too can help you get back on track LOL. For this hop, I thought I'd share with you some of the things I am making for my grandson's day care. I will also be making some "non-scary" Halloween cupcakes but, that will be in 2 weeks :)

If the other 10 little ones at the day care (oldest one 29 months) are as scared of Halloween ghosts and masks as my grandson Santiago is, I better play it safe and make this the NON-SCARIEST Halloween ever !!! Gosh, they are so cute at that age !!!

How I made the Non-Scary invites:

• From the Paper Doll Dress Up(PDDU) cartridge, cut out 2 "Trick or Treat" bags form page 52, at 4 1/2 inches with the Real Dial button on.

• Cut a strip of paper 2 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches and fold in half. Glue the bags to the strip of paper to make the front and back of the invitation.

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  Cut a bat from PDDU cartridge, page 53. Outline the details with a white pen and make eyes with red Stickles.Write Trick or Treat (over the scored marks). Ink edges. Add bat. Add a ribbon with a simple tag... There you go... cute invite !!!

How I made the Non-Scary Halloween treat bags:

• Cut from a cartidge or punch out an orange scalloped circle. Punch two small holes close together on the center. Cut or punch out a smaller circle and cut a ghost shape from PDDU cartridge.

• Thread a thin ribbon through the hole and make a doble knot.

• Tie tightly to bag with candy. Using this method, it is safe for a child to handle the bag, because no staples were used.

• attach the ghost shape to smaller circle with 3D dots.
• Glue to orange circle.

How I made the Non-Scary Halloween tray:

• Start with a wooden tray

• Paint the bottom and borders with black acrylic paint

• Paint interior sides(with handles) of tray orange and exterior sides (with handles) purple. Glue pattern paper to the rest of the sides with Mod Podge or similar product.

• Cut out different size pumpkins and ghosts from PDDU


• Ink and decorate

If you leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post, you will be elegible for a drawing of a $15.00 gift card from Oh My Crafts. The winner will be chosen on Tuesday and announced on Wednesday. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ON THE COMMENT SO THAT I CAN REACH YOU IF YOU WIN.

Now, hop on to Meighen's blog at http://scrappin3rdeeschik.blogspot.com/ and check out the amazing project she has to share with you.

Here is the list of the blogs (just in case you get lost LOL)

Jess- www.kinderstampo.com/
Cheri - http://graphicatcreations.blogspot.com/
Cheryl - http://cheryl-gibson.blogspot.com/
Christine- http://chrisscreations.blogspot.com/
Debbie-  http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
Iva- http://ivarai.com/

Jessica Baker- http://thatzuneek.blogspot.com/

Linda- http://www.krazyquilling.com/

Liz- http://lizspaperloft.blogspot.com/

Madison- http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/  

Martha- http://dreamofcrafting.blogspot.com/ THAT'S ME !!!

Meighen- http://scrappin3rdeeschik.blogspot.com/ 

Melanie- http://scrappymel.blogspot.com/  

Nicki- http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/    

Shelley- http://heartstring-designs.blogspot.com/

Tammy- http://scrappycritters.blogspot.com/ 

Jess- www.kinderstampo.com/