Spook Things Up || DIY Halloween Crafts

Booooooo!

So, Halloween is very soon so why not spook things up with some DIY crafty decorations/accessories. These are all very simple and is just a fun way to add a bit more halloween madness to your home our outfit. I actually had to re-upload this as the post went a little strange, but here's a quick and fun tutorial on how to make some Halloween related paper crafts: pumpkin head, pumpkin head hat, ghost and skull.

Possible Tools:

• Origami paper, or

• Coloured Paper of your choice

• Glue

• Scissors/paper craft knife

• Ruler

• Felt Tips/Marker Pens

**** PUMPKIN HEAD TUTORIAL ****

1. (You can skip steps 1-7 if you are using origami paper). 

Take your coloured piece of A4 paper, and fold it in half. 

2. Then cut down that fold so you have two A5 sheets.

3) Take one of those A5 sheets. Following the annotations below, bring corner 'C' to 'E'. So you want c-d matching exactly the d-e.

 4. You should then get a trapezium shape. (You can fold down any corner you like, just make sure you  end up with a trapezium shape)

5) Fold down the 'Rectangle' part of your trapezium

6) Cut that excess 'rectangle' off so you're left with a folded triangle. (Cut as closely as possible to the fold).

7) Now you have an origami sheet of paper you can work with. How big you want your pumpkin or any origami depends on the size of your paper. If you wanted, you didn't have to cut your A4 sheet into two separate A5 sheets in step 2) and just went ahead and completed steps 3)-6) on your A4 sheet. It's completely up to you. Another option would be instead of folding, you just simply get measurements to cut out a square shape.

8) Fold one corner of your square to the opposite corner so you have a triangle.

9) Fold your triangle in half so that corner 'a' matches to corner 'b'.

9a) Then you're left with a smaller triangle - inside you should have 2 folded triangles.

10) Take one of the folded triangles

11) And you want to open it up, creating a pocket.

12) Once you've opened it up, press down on the pocket.

13) You should get a square shape. Press down and crease the edges

14) Turn your sheet of paper around with the mini square on the other side.

15-17) And repeat steps 11-13) by creating another mini square with the other unfolded triangle.

18) Turn your paper so that you have the open side facing you

19) Take corner 'a' and match it up to point 'b'

20) Then you should get another mini triangle with it's base touching the centre fold of the square.

21) Take corner 'x' and match it up to corner 'y'.

22) You should now be left with an isosceles triangle 

23-24) Pick up that folded isosceles triangle and move it to the other side. So here, the triangle was on the right side, move it to the left side.

25) Then turn your paper over so that on the left side you have a single fold, and other the right side you have two folds. Take the left hand corner and fold it to the middle to create a triangle. And repeat steps 19-22.

29-30) Now take your second folded isosceles triangle, which was on the left, and fold it down on the right side.

31) Now, from this angle, you should have a small rhombus on top of a square.

32) Open the two sides out.

33-34) Taking the side without any open ends, fold it backwards horizontally.

35) And you should get a diamond shape

36) Now taking the open ended side, repeat step 33 and fold that back horizontally.

37) This a view from the back where both ends are folded down.

38) And this is the view from the front.

39) Now taking either side, fold the two unfolded sides backwards as well. Try to make the folds equal to each other to achieve a more symmetrical shape.

40) So you should now have four folded sides (view from the back)

41) And now your pumpkin head is complete.

**** PUMPKIN HEAD HAT TUTORIAL ****

1) Take a coloured piece of paper of your preference, and if you're using printing paper, please follow steps 1-6 again in the 'Pumpkin Head Tutorial' above.

2-4) Fold your square paper into half, and the cut down the folded edge, so you're left with 2 rectangles

5-7) Taking one of the rectangles, fold that in half, and again cut along the fold, so you're left with 2 small squares.

8-9) Repeat the same procedure in step 19 of the 'Pumpkin Head Tutorial', so taking the right-hand corner, and fold it in alignment with the middle of the square.

10-12) Repeat on the same side. You now have 2 right angle triangles, and an isosceles triangle (or in other words, one big isosceles and one small). Bring the circled corner down to create a fold between the bases of the two isosceles triangles.

13) Turn your paper so you have the small isosceles triangle at the bottom.

14) Then fold the base of both triangles upwards to create the base of the Pumpkin Hat (you can fold it as much as you want).

15) Now you have finished both the Pumpkin Head and Pumpkin Hat.

Now decorate and draw some scary faces! You can also glue the hat onto the pumpkin head if you wish :)

This step is entirely optional. I just folded the tip of the hat back slightly to give the hat a little bit of a 3D effect.

**** GHOST TUTORIAL ****

1-3) For this I've actually used the other rectangular piece we didn't use in step 4 of the 'Pumpkin Hat Tutorial', folded it in half and the cut out two squares. You don't have to do what I did, you can make a square out of A4, A5, A3 paper etc, it totally depends on how big you want your ghost. Just make sure you start with a square piece of paper :)

4-6) Taking the right corner of your square, repeat step 19 of the 'Pumpkin Head Tutorial' on both sides so you are left with a kite shape.

7) Turn your kite upside down, so the small isosceles triangle is at the bottom.

8) Here you can repeat steps 21-22 of the 'Pumpkin Head Tutorial' on both sides, so you have two small Scalene Triangles.

11) Now open one of the scalene triangles.  The most obtuse/biggest angle are the ones in the middle of the rhombus, at points x and y. What we are trying to achieve is to make the biggest angle at point 'z'

12) Do the same on the other side.

13-14) Turn your paper as shown in picture below and then turn it over

15) Now fold the corners in to create a (thin) kite.

16) Do the same thing on the other side.

17) Turn your paper back around.

18-19) And fold the two flaps down, as shown - these will be the hands of the ghost.

20) As shown below fold the top backwards - this will be the head so you can fold it as far back as you like.

22) Turn your paper around so you have the back facing you

23) Take the tail and fold it up so it is perpendicular to the head.

24) Then you can fold the tip of the tail downwards.

25) Then you are done! And are free to draw any face you like!

**** SKULL TUTORIAL ****

And onto the final tutorial! And now we will be making the skull.

1) Again make or take another squared piece of coloured/origami paper

2) Proceed with the kite folds.

3) Take the top of the less acute end of the kite

4) And fold that end down, but not touching the base of the two right angle triangles.

5) Take the other end of the kite. 

6) And fold it upwards, this time over lapping the fold in step 4 just slightly.

7) Then bring that fold down to create a sort of step ladder effect.

8) Turn your paper around - you should have a hexagon and a triangle popping out from the bottom.

9-10) Take the end of the triangle as shown in the picture below and fold upwards. Leave a little space between your fold and the base of the hexagon.

11) Bring the end of the triangle down again. This time again, don't align your fold with the base of the hexagon and ensure that your fold is slightly above the base.

12) Then tuck that behind the hexagon.

13) Fold the very tip of the remaining triangle up and tuck it behind the hexagon once more - you have completed the teeth of the skull

Now go ahead and decorate!:)

This is linked up with #CraftyOctober 2014 on The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I hope you all enjoyed that tutorial, and it was okay to follow! Thank you also for all the tips and advice you all gave on how to train puppies in my last post (HERE). 

Anyway what are your plans for Halloween/what are your dressing up as?

Enjoy trick-or-treating, or just tucking into some sweets :) 

Take care and speak soon! 

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