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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Halloween Doll Crafts

Far left, fun felt trick-or-treat bags for dolls., Left center, Peanuts Pillows made from socks.,
 Right center, spider web paper cuts., Far right, candied apples for your American Girl dolls.

       Radiant and beautiful October, whose changing color heralds the approach of winter, gives us our first autumn holiday.
       Before the Christian era, in the days of the ancient Celts and their priests, the Druids, the eve of the first of November was the time for one of the three principal festivals of the year. The first of May was celebrated for the sowing; the solstice on the twenty-first of June for the ripening, and the eve of the first of November for the harvesting. At each of these festivals great fires were built on the hill-tops in honor of the sun, which the people worshiped. When Christianity took the place of the heathen religion, the Church, instead of forbidding the celebration of these days, gave them different meanings, and in this way the ancient harvest-festival of the Celts became All-Hallow-Eve, or the eve of All-Saints-Day, the first day of November having been dedicated to all of the saints.
       For a long while most of the old customs of these holidays were retained; then, although new ceremonies were gradually introduced, Hallow-Eve remained the night of the year for wild, mysterious, and superstitious traditions.
       It has been the custom for quite a number of years for Americans to give a Halloween parties. The home which opens wide its hospitable doors to the favored few on this night is a happy safe haven. There is usually plenty of candy and deserts, old-fashioned parlor games and guests often arrive in costume. 
       You can design a party such as this for your friends and dolls to attend. I will include all kinds of not-too-spooky crafts for little ones to: plan parties, decorate a doll house and dress their dolls up for trick-or-treating fun!
The Winking Owl
Crossword Puzzle
Name The Cats Puzzle
Make Simple Halloween Doll Crafts for All Your Dolls: You can help grow our listing by making requests for particular Halloween crafts in the comment box below:
  1. Decoupage paper candy dishes for doll trick-or-treaters... - made with recycled packing
  2. Craft Cute Bottle Cap Puddings for Halloween - upcycle old bottle caps into something fun for your doll's holiday meal this year.
  3. DIY Doll Sized Candy Apples - are such a sweet treat for children to use in their doll play anytime of year.
  4. Decorating a Miniature Halloween Tree - 6 mini tree crafts for a dollhouse Halloween tree...
  5. Paint a Miniature Black Cat Planter for a Doll's Garden - If your doll loves to garden, make her a miniature version cat planter for her Fall garden displays.
  6. How to cut paper spider webs... - every child can learn to cut easy paper spider webs to decorate a dollhouse with this Halloween.
  7. Make a Halloween Sticker Wreath for Your Dollhouse  - The easiest Halloween doll craft around, this little wreath is perfect for dressing up your dollhouse walls this Autumn...
  8. Sew a Snuggly Afghan for Cool Fall Evenings  - this Halloween afghan craft features pirate kittens, spider webs, stripes and witchy hats sewn into patches, made from socks.
  9. Assemble Oscar, The Mechanical Paper Owl - vintage paper doll with moving parts, every child and some adults will enjoy crafting for Halloween fun!
  10. Stitch A Peanuts Pillow for Halloween - easy to cut and stitch Halloween socks into doll pillows.
  11. Printable Candy Bar Wrappers by kathy grimm - printable candy bars for filling doll candy bags white trick-or-treating!
  12. Craft a 'Boo' Web Wreath for The Dollhouse - transform an old doily into a vintage looking spider web wreath for your doll's Halloween decor this year.
  13. Paint a Pumpkin Shaped Candy Dish - upcycle old Jello molds into cute pumpkin serving dishes.
  14. Craft Halloween Cupcakes for Your Doll Bakery - Halloween inspired baked goods feature: spider webs, witches hats and spooky eyeballs.
  15. How to craft a reluctant hut for Baba Yaga - craft for older teens and adults
  16. No-Sew Frankenstein's Monster Pillow - Glue a cute monster pillow for your doll's sofa or bed.
  17. Sculpt Miniature Lollipops for Dolloween! - twist and turn contrasting clay colors to craft this classic dolly treat for Halloween.
  18. Fun Felt Trick-Or-Treat Bags for Dolls - Use fun felt novelty decorations to dress up these simple, fabric candy treat bags.
  19. Craft a Foam Pumpkin Pie - A technique for constructing an Autumn favorite desert for your dollhouse.
  20. Scrap Fabric Pumpkin Pie - layer silks and creamy white lace to create a fabriclicious treat for your dolls during this Fall season!
  21. Sew Four Reversible Pumpkin Placemats - one side of the placemats feature pumpkins and the other Thanksgiving graphics, perfect for a festive dolly dinner party.
  22. A Cat and Witch Magic Changeling Paper Doll - one of many reversible images for this unique and  old-fashioned paper dolls.
  23. Dolls may now send vintage Halloween greetings! - printable postcards for the Dolly Mail.
  24. A Paper Dolly Dingle Celebrates Halloween! - color paper dolls of Billie Bumps and Dolly Dingle with cute props too!
  25. Print a Vintage Halloween Party Game Board - game board from the 1950s to print out for dolls.
  26. Creepy, Classic Halloween Posters - old timey photos of historic graveyards and qotes.
  27. Posters from Nostalgic Halloween Films - The Invisible Man, Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon posters, colorized and resized for dollhouses.
  28. No-Sew Owlloween Hoot Sock Pillow - made from Halloween novelty socks and perfect for the doll sofa or bed during the fall...
  29. Reversible Halloween Novelty Apron - a very simple sewing project for beginners...
  30. The Pumpkin House - small and quaint, just the right size for a doll or two or three...
  31. Make Dollhouse Wreaths Using Felt Squares - felt in traditional halloween colors: black, white and orange
  32. Make easy jack-o-lanterns for a dollhouse display - the simplest pumpkin craft so far!
  33. Our Dollhouse Family Room Decorated for Halloween - Our doll's are ready for a festive Halloween party...
  34. How to Make a Boneyard Brownie Display - painted and iced to look like a Haunted Gingerbread Display + pumpkin brownie craft...
  35. Craft Halloween Trick-Or-Treaters - Dummy boards for your dollhouse fireplace...
  36. Make a Miniature Printable Halloween Coloring Book - for 18" doll play 
  37. Craft a 3 Layered Monster Halloween Cake! - This desert comes with wiggly eyeballs and drips of icing...
  38. Cut and Color a Scarecrow Finger Puppet - This example has a pattern and pumpkin head!
  39. Gathered Ribbon Wreath for Halloween - A witchy Jack-o-lantern attached to this spider web ribbon motif...
  40. Decorate the Dollhouse With Pumpkins, Mums and Toadstools - Hot glue easy Autumn displays to decorate the dollhouse...
  41. Sew a few frightful pillows for the dollhouse - Featured here are Jack-o-lanterns, a ghost, dancing skeletons and a 3D spider with a web...
  42. How to paint a pretend pumpkin hamburger - with a patty, cheddar cheese, lettuce and sesame seeds...
  43. Make a pumpkin with a web shaped vine - attach a pretend spider to this one...
  44. How to stack and paint a group of pumpkins to look like a black cat
Halloween History and Stories:
  • A Halloween Party From 1924 - Travel back in time to read about how children celebrated Halloween in the 1920s...
  • How Halloween Came To Be Celebrated in Christendom - Confined to the immigrant communities during the mid-19th century, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and by the first decade of the 20th century it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds.
  • What Is All Saint's Day About? by Pastor Jeremy from Commons Church, Canada
  • Hallowe'en In Olden Time - In old English times it was a night of mystery, full of charms and revelry and queer pastimes.
  • The Story of "Stingy Jack" - Stingy Jack, perhaps also known as Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, and Jack of the Lantern, is a mythical character apparently associated with All Hallows Eve. It is common lore that the "jack-o'-lantern" is derived from the character.
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - "The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head."
  • Bats, Ace Fliers - Bats are almost always thought of in connection with witches, goblins, evil spirits and bad luck...
  • Gourds and Pumpkins and Their Uses - October brings Halloween, and since the pumpkin is a typical fruit of that time of the year it is used in all kinds of Halloween decorations.
  • Halloween Frolics From The Past - Vintage decorations for many rooms in the house, 1919...
Ghost Stories from The Brother's Grimm:
Autumn/Halloween/All Saints Day Poetry:
  1. October Thoughts - "Some people are very poetic --They speak of the October sky..."
  2. A Ghost! by Elizabeth Betts - "Good-night, me boy, now go to sleep..."
  3. An Old Rat's Tale - "He was a rat and she was a rat..."
  4. Fall-Time Fun! - "October days have magic ways of making us remember..."
  5. October - "October's days are pleasant, The fields are clad in brown..."
  6. The Silent Pool by Enid Blyton - "Away in the wood where it's dark..."
  7. The Voice of  Autumn by William Cullen Bryant - "There comes, from yonder height, a soft repining sound..."
  8. October's Bright Blue Weather by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson - "Suns and skies and clouds of June..."
  9. All Saints Day by James Russell Lowell - "One feast, of holy days the crest..." 
  10. The Bad Kittens by Elizabeth J. Coatsworth - "You may call, you may call..."
  11. The Mask Poem - "Behind this frowning mask I see..."
  12. An Owl Problem by Josephine E. Toal - "I thought I lived among the owls..."
  13. Popping Corn  ''Oh, the sparkling eyes, In a fairy ring...!'' 
Doll Sized Halloween Costumes & Fashions:
  1. The Mermaid Costume - with a recycled tail from the Dollar Store...
  2. DIY Conical Hats for Fashionable Princesses (free pattern)
  3. The Breakfast Costume - Easy paper mache craft!
  4. The Firefighter Uniform Costume  - Borrowed from another stuffed toy...
  5. Make Rainbow Hair Extensions for Fashion Dolls
  6. The Pajama Unicorn Costume  - sewn using upcycled headband
  7. Quick and Easy Skeleton Costume for a Doll
  8. The Gumball Machine Doll Costume - made using pom poms
  9. Betty Bonnet's Halloween Party - colorful paper dolls by Sheila Young
  10. The Lady Bug Costume - made from a Dollar Store purchase
  11. Your doll can dress up as a doctor for Halloween
  12. The Bumble Bee Costume - made from a Dollar Store purchase too
  13. Dress your doll in A Nun's Habit for Halloween
  14. The Witchy "Web" Costume for a Storybook Witch
  15. Pretend to Be A Gold-Medal Winning Athlete for Halloween and craft award winning ribbons too!
  16. The "Boo Who?" Ghost Costume - very vintage with adorable lantern too!
  17. The Jack-O-Lantern Costume - upcycle an infant's cap
  18. The ''Madeline'' Costume - it fits many other dolls...
Matching Halloween Costumes for Little Girls & Their Dolls
Halloween Video from American Girl Doll Fans:
Costumes:
Parties and Haunted Happenings/Stories:
Movie Posters from: Far Left, "The Corpse Bride." Center Left, "Hook."
Center Right, "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." Far Right, "The Dark Crystal."
Kid Friendly Halloween Films:
  • The Ghost and Mr. Chicken: T.V. Trailer, Review, and Haunted Organ Music. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American comedy-drama film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel, Kansas. The working title was Running Scared. The title is presumably a humorous variation of the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). Read more...
  • It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown:  Trailer, a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Read more...
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas: Trailer, The Making Of.  The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween-Christmas film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. Read more...
  • The Corpse Bride: Trailer, Johnny Depp interview. Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on original characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. Read more...
  • Scared Stiff: Trailer, Scared Stiff is a 1953 American horror paranormal semi-musical comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. One of the 17 films made by the Martin and Lewis team, it was released on April 27, 1953 by Paramount Pictures. Read more...
  • The Dark Crystal: Trailer, Lisa Henson Talks About, Puppets Inside Henson's Creature Shop. 1982 puppet animated dark fantasy adventure film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Read more...
  • Ghostbusters: Trailer, The making of 1999 film,  Behind the Scenes of 2016 film. 1984 American fantasy comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as, respectively, Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler, a trio of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Read more...
  • Harry Potter: Trailer, Interviews with character actors. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone  is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1997 novel of the same name. Read more...
  • James and the Giant Peach: Trailer, James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. Read more...
  • Monsters Inc.: Trailer, Learn about making monsters at Pixar. 2001 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Read more...
  • Hook: Trailer, Documentary. 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Peter Banning is a successful corporate lawyer in San Francisco, but his workaholic lifestyle strains his relationship with his wife Moira and children Jack and Maggie. The family prepares to fly to London to visit Moira's grandmother Wendy Darling. Peter, in effort to complete his work before leaving, inadvertently misses Jack's baseball game. Read more...
  • Coraline: Trailer, It's Alive About Coraline. 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy film directed and written for the screen by Henry Selick based on 2002 novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman. Read more...
  • The Haunted Mansion: Trailer, Behind the Scenes Production, Interview. 2003 American supernatural horror comedy film based on the Disney theme park attraction of the same name. Read more...
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Trailer, The Making Of, 2005 British-American high fantasy film co-written and directed by Andrew Adamson, based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. It was co-produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. Read more...
  • The Never Ending Story: Trailer, 1984 English-language German fantasy film directed and co-written by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), and based on the novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Read more...
 
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