Snakes and ladders is one of our favourite games so we often adapt it to special themes and Halloween seemed like the perfect occasion to slightly modify it. Our haunted snakes and ladders is very …

To complete our homemade set of Halloween lights this year we made a Frankenstein lantern to join the pumpkin and vampire from last year. Only this time instead of painting the jars we opted for …

Pumpkins are not readily available where we are so this year we turned a washing powder container into our jack’ o’ lantern.  The process was fun and the skill necessary is definitely less much less …

This week I bring you a craft for Halloween which is entirely my son’s from idea to completion. In true recycle style he made two lanterns using just glass jars, paint, crease paper and floating …

After seeing so many spooky cakes and sweets we attempted to make our own this afternoon with marzipan, sugar and chocolate icing. We made cookies shaped like bats and Frankenstein.
Ingredients
250g marzipan, one tablespoon …

 
I am determined not to buy anything already made for Halloween this year so at the weekend we decorated some plain paper bags to fill with treats for our Halloween party.
Inspired by the lovely …

In preparation for Halloween we have come up with an idea to reuse an old beach bucket by turning it into a trick or treat container to collect all the sweets and gifts. To transform …

Apologies to all of you lovely readers who expect to see a post about crafts on Monday. Well, we have been a little busy at the weekend so I bring you our crafty post on …

Etsy is one of my favourite places to go and look for ideas so with Halloween on the calendar this month I could not miss a good look around. These are my selections.
The Boo sign …

Halloween is around the corner so we have started our decorations with some homemade spiders. They are very easy to make and a lot of fun to decorate. To remain true to our recycle philosophy …

I have written about costumes, trick-or-treat bags and recycled decorations, but no Halloween selection would be complete without some food recipes so I have been riding the waves of the Internet and I landed at …

I have been looking around for crafts ideas for more Halloween decorations to add to the hanging bats we made last week and I found two very good projects. Both involve recycling, which makes them …