Bruce the Chef

(large heavy paper plate, lightweight cardboard, small heavy paper bowl, papier-mache, poster paint, elastic)
1.  To make the snout of the bear, turn over a small heavy paper bowl, and place on top of the outside bottom of a large heavy paper plate. Tape it on the plate. Cut small ears from pieces of lightweight cardboard, and staple them to the plate.
2. Cover with papier-mache, adding rolled pieces of papier-mache to form the eyebrows. Let dry.
3.  Paint and let dry. Add features with poster paint. Let dry. Cut out eyeholes. Staple a piece of elastic to opposite sides of the mask to fit around your head.

(construction paper)
1.  Cut a long stem from green construction paper.
2.  Cut small orange pumpkins, and glue them on the stem.
3.  On a pumpkin, write the name of a book you have read during the Halloween season. Add a book title to each pumpkin after you have read other books.

Enjoy planting time using garden tools with hand-wrapped seed-packet handles.

what you’ll need
Empty seed packets
Pinking shears
Garden tool
Thick white crafts glue; paintbrush
Scraps of 1-inch-wide grosgrain ribbon; pencil
Scissors
Scraps of narrow ribbon or rickrack

1  Cut out the front of seed packets using pinking shears. Arrange on tool handle as desired, allowing 1 inch at the top and bottom for ribbon. Glue in place using water-thinned crafts glue. Let dry.
2 Apply two coats of thinned glue over seed packets, allowing to dry between coats.
3 Trace around end of tool handle on 1-inch-wide grosgrain ribbon. Cut out circle. Glue to end of handle using crafts glue. Glue short lengths of ribbon at the top and bottom of the handle. Let dry.
4 Glue short lengths of narrow ribbon or rickrack over the
grosgrain ribbon. Let dry. 5 Coat the entire handle with thinned glue. Let dry.

(construction paper)
1.  Cut a piece of black construction paper about 5 inches by 8 inches. Measure 2 inches down on the long side and draw a line across the paper.
2.  In the center above the 2-inch line, draw the head of a cat. Cut along the line and the outline of the cat. Roll the paper cat into a tube and tape the edges together.
3.  Cut and glue on eyes, a nose, a mouth, and whiskers. Cut claws and two paws from paper and tape them to the bottom of the paper tube.
4.  For the tail, glue the ends of two long, narrow strips of paper together at a right angle, as shown. Then fold one strip across the other alternately, as shown by the arrows.
Continue until almost at the end, then cut tiny strips for fringe. Glue the other end to the cat.

ooard egg carton, dried beans, poster paint, paper, elastic, button)
1.  For the body, cut two egg cups from a cardboard egg carton. Glue the two cups together with a few dried beans inside.
2.  Paint the body with poster paint and let dry. Add eyes, a
b, a mouth, and hair from pieces of paper.
3.  Glue a long piece of elastic to the top. Thread the other end through the holes of a button and tie a knot. Slip the button between your fingers and make the critter jump.

(plastic food container, tree branch, clay, small stones, paper, hemlock pinecones, plastic food wrap)
1. Place a fallen tree branch into a plastic food container filled with small stones and clay. Decorate the outside with paper.
2. To make owls, decorate the hemlock pinecones with paper eyes and beaks.
3.  Glue the owls to the fallen tree branch. To help hold them in place, wrap a small piece of plastic food wrap around them. Remove the wrap when almost dry.

Be a winner all year long with canning jars trimmed with artificial fruits and vegetables.

what you’ll need
Artificial fruits or vegetables
Additional canning jar lid
Thick white crafts glue
Jar filled with canned fruit or vegetables

1  Glue artificial fruits or vegetables to the top of an extra canning jar lid and allow the glue to dry.
2  Glue the topper to the lid of your canned produce, gluing to the rim of the lid. Remove the topper before opening
the jar.

With just a few supplies and a coupie of quick steps, you can create tiny candlehoiders for each of your picnic guests.

what you’ll need
Glass salt and pepper shakers
Colored sand
Glass adhesive
Small candles

1  Fill the salt and pepper shakers with colored sand.
2 To stack shakers, adhere together using glass adhesive. Let the adhesive dry.
3 Place a candle in the top of each holder.

(cotton balls, facial tissue, rubber band, metal bandage box, paper)
1. To make the ghost, center two or three cotton balls in two facial tissues. Place a small rubber band around the bottom of the tissue ball to form the ghost’s neck. Draw a face with a marker.
2. Place the ghost’s body into a metal bandage box. Tape the back of the ghost’s head to the inside lid of the box. Close the lid gently, tucking the head into the box.
3.  Decorate the outside of the metal bandage box with paper to give the ghost a home. Pull open the lid and the ghost will pop up.

(cardboard egg carton, construction paper, yarn)
1.  For the witch’s head, cut four adjoining sections from a cardboard egg carton.
2. Using the inside of the carton as the face, glue on eyes, a mouth, and a wart. Add a black construction-paper hat to the back of the cardboard egg carton.
3. Glue long pieces of black yarn over the top of the witch’s head, letting it hang down around her face.
4. Add a yarn hanger to the back of the witch.