No-Sew Frankenstein's Monster Pillow

Monster pillow wonders, 'What is that scary creature!'

       Even though this project is a no-sew project, you may still need an adult to help you with it, depending upon your age and experience.

       Read all of the instructions and look closely before beginning. Ask mom or dad to help you with your first attempt. Soon you will get the hang of it. 

       When working with an iron or hot glue, have adults present and helping.

Supply List:

• green fabric scraps
• double sided adhesive tape
• fabric glue
• stuffing of some kind: pellets, cotton etc...
• small amounts of felt: blue, black and white
• fingernail scissors or tiny Fiskars scissors
• black thread and needle for scares (optional)

 Step-by-Step Directions:

1. Cut a 3 1/2" x 10" rectangle from green scrap fabric that you have for this no-sew pillow project.
2. Apply a double sided adhesive tape or fabric glue to the right sides of your green rectangle. (Remember the right sides are the front parts of a fabric.)
3. Fold the rectangle in half with the adhesive strips facing together and iron the pillow case shut. You may use the glue adhesive and omit the ironing, but wait for the glue to dry overnight before turning the pillow inside out.
4. Take a sharp small set of scissors and cut a small 1" opening on the front of your pillow's face. 
5. Turn the pillow inside out. Now the right sides of the pillow are on the outside and the edges are turned neatly inside. 
6. Push cotton balls or plastic pellets through this opening to stuff your small pillow.
7. Cut a strip of your fabric to insert into this open hole and glue it shut with a glue gun. I used the back side of the fabric facing out through the hole to make the surface where my monster's face looks scared more obvious. (see photos below)
8. Cut small stripes of the green fabric and roll these up with a bit of fabric glue or hot glue to make the bolts for the monsters neck/head. These are the electrodes that Dr. Frankenstein plugged in electricity to bring his monster to life.
9. Glue these hardened fabric bolts to the side of your monster pillow's head.
10. Cut blue felt fabric hair and eyebrow to glue to the monster's face. (for front and back, See photo below to copy if you'd like.)
11. Cut out eyeballs, mouth and buck teeth from the black and white felt. Glue these down using fabric glue.
12. Now you can add some black scare seams with a needle and thread if you want.

Left, Apply a double sided adhesive tape or fabric glue to the right sides of your green rectangle.
 I've ironed this down and now will peal it away before folding it in half and ironing it shut. Right,
 Take a sharp small set of scissors and cut a small 1" opening on the front of your pillow's face.

Left, Push cotton balls or plastic pellets through this opening to stuff your small pillow.
 Right, Cut a strip of your fabric to insert into this open hole and glue it shut with a glue gun.

Front and backside of my no-sew Frankenstien's monster pillow. Wow what a mouthful. 
I think he needs a few black scare stitches before he's done.

What is this Frankenpillow's story? It looks like these two are up to no good! 
Is the spider taking him for a ride or taking his seat?

DIY Halloween Cupcakes for Our Doll Bakery

Our spooky treats are lined up on top of a black tin tray and displayed with purple
 bat lights, Halloween fabric, creepy eyeballs in a beaker and
comical bat shaped candy dish.

       Three Halloween cupcake designs by kathy grimm for doll sized holiday treats. Shape simple eyeballs, spider webs and witch caps using clay and puff paints. When selecting cupcake liners, choose playful patterns and Halloween colors to make these clay creations look even more appetizing!

 Supply List:

• Sculpey oven bake clay
• small wooden spools
• hot glue and glue gun or wood glue
• black puff paint
• acrylic paints: orange, purple, white, blue
• red, orange and purple sparkly glitter glue
• two types of Halloween cupcake liners
• tiny star stickers

 Step-by-Step Instructions:

• First you will need to sculpt the eyeballs and witch hats from oven bake clay. These should be baked at 275 degrees for 3-4 minutes. Read the packages instructions carefully before beginning. 
• I use Sculpey clay for my doll cupcake crafts. Sculpey will adhere to itself while baking so, you can prebake some smaller pieces and then push these into soft, unbaked clay. This process works best when shaping very tiny sculptures. Tiny clay shapes can loose definition when they are being attached soft surface to soft surface. 
• Shape the swirled icing by stacking long rope-like clay pieces on top of each other. End the swirled faux icing by pinching off the tip. Push the baked decorative hats and eyeballs into the unbaked clay icing and then bake all of these parts together again at 275 for a few more minutes.
• Glue these miniature stacked elements onto wooden spools or short stump like tubes.
• Paint the wooden spools a Halloween cupcake color. I used brown paint for chocolate cake.
• Paint the top elements in: orange, white, green, black or purple. See pictures below.
• Use puff paints and glitter glues to decorate the cupcakes with even more detail. I used a red glitter glue to add a bit of realistic color to the eyeball cupcakes. I used a black puff paint to add spider web details on some cupcakes and ribbons around the witch hats.
• Glue on remaining stickers for stars on the witch hats.
• Now seal your creations with Mod Podge.
• Use hot glue to attach the trimmed cupcake liners around the circumference of each cupcake. 
• Take remaining scraps cut away from the cupcake liners and cut/trim off covers for the bottoms of each cupcake. Glue these in place.

Left, Push the baked decorative hats and eyeballs into the unbaked icing and then
bake all of these parts together again at 275 for a few more minutes.
 Right, Use puff paints and glitter glues to decorate the cupcakes
 with even more details.

Close up views of the Halloween cupcakes for all your 18" dolls.

Paint a Pumpkin Shaped Candy Dish

Our Hearts for Hearts  doll, Rahel, has had too many sweets to eat this Halloween. She's so tired,
she hasn't even changed out of her mummy costume! If your dolls go trick-or-treating, be sure to
warn them about eating too much candy all at once!

       Wouldn't your dolls love a giant bowl filled to the brim with tiny candies for Halloween? However, you must be careful not to let them get carried away with these kinds of munchies. They are sure to go to bed with sore tummies if young mothers don't set limits on candy consumption!

I painted my old Jello mold using acrylic paints and then sealed this
 hand painted surface with Mod Podge. I then painted the inside
 using yellow spray paint.

 Supply List:

• old tin, Jello mold shaped like a pumpkin or an optional plastic bowl from the dollar store.
• acrylic paints: yellow, orange, green
• Mod Podge
• white school glue
• small paint brushes
• yellow spray paint (for the interior of the mold)
• colorful foam beads purchased from dollar store
• masking tape

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. To make this craft look exactly like ours, you will need an old Jello mold. So if you have one of these, you are ready to go. Clean it with warm soapy water and then dry it off thoroughly.
2. If you don't have a mold like the one shown above, you can use an ordinary, small plastic bowl to replace the one suggested in this craft. These are available in packs at the dollar store.
3. I spray painted the inside of my mold bright yellow to mimic the inside of a carved pumpkin and let it dry til the paint hardened. This took several days.
4. Then I used three colors of acrylic to paint the outside of the mold to look like a pumpkin shell: green, orange and yellow.
5. As you can see in the photo above, I painted the cracks green, the ridges orange and then I layered a second coat of yellow on top of the orange. 
6. Take a dry, clean brush and delicately smooth the paint colors together slightly. If you make a mistake just wait for the paint to dry and repeat the process. This doesn't need to look perfect in order to look like a convincing pumpkin. Some pumpkins have all kinds of surface blemishes and modeled colors!
7. Let the paint dry and then coat a layer of Mod Podge over the outside surface for protection. Let the Mod Podge dry thoroughly.
8. Turn the faux pumpkin shell over and fill it with crushed newspaper or tissue paper. Mask off this outside surface with tape.
9. Squeeze white school glue onto the top of your crushed and masked filling. 
10. Sprinkle the colorful foam beads on top of the glue and let the filling dry overnight.
11. After you have the surface covered as you like it, brush on Mod Podge to protect the faux candy surface for play.

Left, Craft Foam Beads in rainbow colors.
Right, the crushed and masked mound newsprint inside my old Jello mold.

Craft a "Boo" Web Wreath for The Dollhouse

My 'Boo' spider web wreath is made from a recycled doily.
This wreath measures five inches across.

       I had just a few old doilies set aside, made or collected by family from former generations. Because some of them could not be repaired I decided to recycle one or two in a few Halloween crafts.

       For this craft, I used the center of a doily only. Doilies will unravel if you are not selective about where you snip the corners. 

        If you are too young to work with this kind of material, you can just as easily replace the webbing with a paper doily instead. In either case, you will need to paint the lace web black. 

       Plastic spiders are common place in the U.S. during the month of October. You can buy them in bulk from a dollar store.

       I used foam cut letters to make the 'Boo' text attached to my web. But these letters may be just as easily cut from construction paper.

Where does the word Boo come from?

• boo (interj.) from the Online Etymology Dictionary
• boo - means... from The Free Dictionary

Pictures of Step-by-Step process 
for doll sized web wreath.

Supply List:

• old doily with the same or similar web pattern
• black spray paint
• bright orange embroidery floss
• embroidery needle
• wire for small hoop
• orange plastic spider
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• tacky white glue (Optional for those who are using a paper doily instead.)
• red or orange foam letters, one B and two o's to spell out "Boo"

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Bend wire to craft this circular shape. The wire form used here measures five inches in diameter. This size of your wreath will be determined by how large your doily is to begin with.
2. Cut apart a doily made from yarn or paper to fit inside inside of a wire form.
3. Spray paint the faux web black.
4. I tacked my cut doily in four places with thread in order to ensure that the web was stretches evenly inside the wire hoop. 
5. Then I went back with an embroidery stitch to attach all the remaining ends. I used orange embroidery for this step. (It doesn't matter which stitch you choose to use here. Just attach the web with the stitch you are most comfortable using.)
6. If you are using a paper doily, glue it to the wire hoop using tacky white glue. Let this dry overnight before continuing on.
7. Use the tacky white glue to paste on the 'Boo' text made of foam cut letters or cardboard. Let dry.
8. I had to hot glue my fake spider to the web because it is made from molded plastic.

Find More Spooky Spider Web Crafts:

• Craft a Ruote Pasta Web
• Draw a Shaded White Spider Web 
• Draw a Design From a Spider's Web
• Just Admiring the Giant, Halloween, Yard Art on A Lovely Fall Day...

Printable Candy Bar Wrappers by kathy grimm

Candy bar wrappers by kathy grimm. Free for little ones to print,
 cut and paste for their doll's treats. 

       Now your dolls can have doll sized candy bars in their lunch boxes, at their parties or even to hand out during a trick-or-treating scenario.  Print a nice supply of candy bar wrappers from below. Assemble them using cut cardboard (or brown colored foam sheets) and kitchen foil. You will need a bit of white school glue and scissors too.
      Put a little glue onto the dull side of your tin foil sheets before wrapping these around the cardboard shaped candy bars. Then add a small amount of glue to the back side of the candy bars before folding the candy wrappers around the faux chocolate bars. Then seal the surfaces with Mod Podge to give them some durability for play.

Left, print and cut the wrapper logos out. Center, cut cardboard candy bar shapes.
Right, cut tin foil to wrap around the candy bars before gluing the wrappers around the cardboard.

Kit wants to make sure the candy is good before serving it to her doll friends this
Halloween! Her rainbow fairy costume is an altered Build-A-Bear design.

Pretend Candy Bar Wrappers: Swiss Miss Chocolate from the Alps, Caramel & Orange Cream Old-World Flavors, Heavenly Chocolate with Peanuts, Crunchy Krispy Bar Candy Love At First Bite! and Almond Delight Bar With Fudge and Fruits.

Candy Bar Wrappers by kathy grimm ©2019
For personal use only - Not for sale -
Do not redistribute from alternative websites.

More Doll Sized Candy Bar Wrappers:

• How to Make Doll Candy Bars from Americangirlfan

A Treat for the Wee Folk

Our woods are very dark at night-

I dare not in them play,

Although I know most every tree

And every flower by day.

But Hallowe'en I go quite near

And scatter candy sweets.

So, when the elves and fairies come

They all will find a treat.

An Old Rat's Tale.

An Old Rat's Tale.

He was a rat and she was a rat,

And down in one hole they did dwell.

And both were as black as a witch's cat,

And they loved each other well.

He had a tail and she had a tail,

Both long and curling and fine;

And each said:"Yours is the finest tail

In the world, excepting mine."

He smelt the cheese and she smelt the cheese,

And they both pronounced it good;

And both remarked it would greatly add

To the charm of their daily food.

So he ventured out and she ventured out,

And I saw them go with pain;

But what befell them I never can tell,

For they never came back again.

Merry Autumn Days

MERRY AUTUMN DAYS.
by CHARLES DICKENS

I HAIL the merry autumn days,
When leaves are turning red;
Because they're far more beautiful,
Than anyone has said;
We hail the merry harvest-time,
The gayest of the year;
The time of rich and bounteous crops,
Rejoicing and good cheer.

'Tis pleasant on a fine spring morn.
To see the buds expand,
'Tis pleasant in the summer-time.
To see the fruitful land;
'Tis pleasant on a winter's night.
To sit around the blaze; -
But what are joys like these, my boys,
To merry autumn days?

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

• A Creepy Halloween Party for Your Dolls and You! - vintage printable invitation and pumpkin game sheet
• Planning a Halloween Party Table - Four versions you can craft for all of your dolls and stuffed animals to eat at, play and be jolly... (These are all vintage, 1912)
• Visit our Halloween Coloring Page Collection at Crayon Palace
• Visit our Halloween Crafts for Kids at Thrifty Scissors

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. Craft A "Vomitrocious" Halloween Appetizer Display! - for a doll's party 
14. Paint a Pumpkin Shaped Candy Dish - upcycle old Jello molds into cute pumpkin serving dishes.
15. Craft Halloween Cupcakes for Your Doll Bakery - Halloween inspired baked goods feature: spider webs, witches hats and spooky eyeballs.
16. How to craft a reluctant hut for Baba Yaga - craft for older teens and adults
17. No-Sew Frankenstein's Monster Pillow - Glue a cute monster pillow for your doll's sofa or bed.
18. Sculpt Miniature Lollipops for Dolloween! - twist and turn contrasting clay colors to craft this classic dolly treat for Halloween.
19. Fun Felt Trick-Or-Treat Bags for Dolls - Use fun felt novelty decorations to dress up these simple, fabric candy treat bags.
20. Craft a Foam Pumpkin Pie - A technique for constructing an Autumn favorite desert for your dollhouse.
21. Scrap Fabric Pumpkin Pie - layer silks and creamy white lace to create a fabriclicious treat for your dolls during this Fall season!
22. Sew Four Reversible Pumpkin Placemats - one side of the placemats feature pumpkins and the other Thanksgiving graphics, perfect for a festive dolly dinner party.
23. A Cat and Witch Magic Changeling Paper Doll - one of many reversible images for this unique and  old-fashioned paper dolls.
24. Dolls may now send vintage Halloween greetings! - printable postcards for the Dolly Mail.
25. A Paper Dolly Dingle Celebrates Halloween! - color paper dolls of Billie Bumps and Dolly Dingle with cute props too!
26. Print a Vintage Halloween Party Game Board - game board from the 1950s to print out for dolls.
27. Creepy, Classic Halloween Posters - old timey photos of historic graveyards and qotes.
28. Posters from Nostalgic Halloween Films - The Invisible Man, Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon posters, colorized and resized for dollhouses.
29. No-Sew Owlloween Hoot Sock Pillow - made from Halloween novelty socks and perfect for the doll sofa or bed during the fall...
30. Reversible Halloween Novelty Apron - a very simple sewing project for beginners...
31. The Pumpkin House - small and quaint, just the right size for a doll or two or three...
32. Make Dollhouse Wreaths Using Felt Squares - felt in traditional halloween colors: black, white and orange
33. Make easy jack-o-lanterns for a dollhouse display - the simplest pumpkin craft so far and also a new vintage Halloween magazine covers printable for 18 inch dolls . . .
34. Our Dollhouse Family Room Decorated for Halloween - Our doll's are ready for a festive Halloween party...
35. How to Make a Boneyard Brownie Display - painted and iced to look like a Haunted Gingerbread Display + pumpkin brownie craft...
36. Craft Halloween Trick-Or-Treaters - Dummy boards for your dollhouse fireplace...
37. Make a Miniature Printable Halloween Coloring Book - for 18" doll play 
38. Craft a 3 Layered Monster Halloween Cake! - This desert comes with wiggly eyeballs and drips of icing...
39. Cut and Color a Scarecrow Finger Puppet - This example has a pattern and pumpkin head!
    
40. Gathered Ribbon Wreath for Halloween - A witchy Jack-o-lantern attached to this spider web ribbon motif...
41. Decorate the Dollhouse With Pumpkins, Mums and Toadstools - Hot glue easy Autumn displays to decorate the dollhouse and printable vintage magazine covers too!
42. 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...
43. How to paint a pretend pumpkin hamburger - with a patty, cheddar cheese, lettuce and sesame seeds...
44. Make a pumpkin with a web shaped vine - attach a pretend spider to this one...
45. How to stack and paint a group of pumpkins to look like a black cat
    
46. How to make Jack-o-lanterns using paper pulp - and light them up with battery operated candles!

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:

• The importance villains serve in children's literature...
  
• The Shroud - "There was once a mother who had a little boy seven years old..."
• The Aged Mother - "In a large town there was an old woman..."
• The Stolen Pennies ''A father was one day sitting at dinner with his wife and children..."

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...!'' 
    
14. The Night o' the Pumpkin Moon by Holman Day - 'The crickets are fiddling an overture...'

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

• Jack-O-Lanterns and Ghosts From Sugar Bee Crafts
• Mommy, daughter and doll nesting doll costumes
• Queen of Hearts Costume with Matching 18" Doll Costume from Target

Halloween Video from American Girl Doll Fans:

Costumes:

• American Girl Halloween Costumes from 2017 from sew4dolls
• Deena shares her doll's outfits from Halloween 2014
• agoverseasfan dresses her American Girl Dolls in Outfits for 2016
• SewCrafty makes 3 no-sew costumes
• ag4life shows how she dressed her American Girl Dolls for Halloween in 2016

Parties and Haunted Happenings/Stories:

• Stop Motion of American Girl Party with a Werewolf, 2015
• American Girl Dolls Spooky Haunted House SPOOF! by TheSpunkyAG
• The Haunting Halloween Party: a Dolloween Special by FiveDollStars
• What Happened in Layton Manor by mixiepixie7 and The Spirits' Stone
• Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble Skit for Dolls

Halloween Cartoon Specials for Little Ones:

• Rollie Pollie Ollie Halloween Special: Spooky Dress Up!
• Berenstain Bears Bears: Too Much Trick or Treat
• Pete The Cat: Jack-o'-lantern Carving
• Little Bear Scares Everyone

Haunted Halloween Dollhouses:

• DIY Miniature Workshop: Witch's Workshop
• My Haunted Dollhouse Tour with Halloween Miniatures by CathieandSteve
• Harry Potter Themed Dollhouse Miniature
• How to Make a Doll Wand Shop from MyFroggyStuff
• Cute Miniature Haunted House Tutorial from SugarCharmShop

Count Down to Halloween Crafts from The Web:

• Halloween Countdown Calendar Free Printable
• Halloween Countdown Calendar - 31 Printable Monster Ornaments 

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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