This month I decided to join in with the Bostik Bloggers as I love crafting and Tyler’s at that age now where he’s more interesting in making things. We received a box of crafts from Tots100 and Bostik full of all sorts of craft goodies, all in an Autumn Halloween theme – very exciting! Now what were we to make with this?
We had felt, foam, wool, ribbons, buttons, plastic leaves, glitter pens, foam pads and tissue paper.
I started off making a Halloween octopus with the wool, for which I wrote a tutorial here.
And with the rest of the crafts, I decided to make a Halloween train for my train-obsessed boy. I cut up the foam into a steam train shape with 3 carriages. I asked Tyler if they looked like a train, and he said yes, he was oh so impressed 🙂
I cut holes in the sides and tied together with stripy piping. Then I chose 8 large buttons and we attached them to the train with the Bostik foam pads.
Next I cut the pumpkin ribbon into 4 and we squeezed Bostik glitter glue on to stick on to the train.
Then with the assembled train done, I attached it to the stripy ribbon with more foam pads so that it looked like a track. I then thought this would look cool as Halloween poster to stick on the wall. So I got a large white sheet and attached the train with PVA glue. I put the owl sticker on the front carriage as the driver.
We swirled more glitter glue pattern on the train and stuck buttons on. And I made a pumpkin with PVA glue and the orange tissue paper. I glued on leaves scattered about and wrote ‘Halloween’ with the glitter pen.
I cut a witch and a cat out of the felt, and made a witches hat out of black tissue paper, hair from wool and a dress from ribbon. I used foam pads to attach the ribbon dress so it was still floaty. For everything else I used PVA glue. I made the broomstick from the stripy piped and wool tied on.
The finished poster is on our living room wall now, and looks like this:
Pretty cool, eh? What are you crafting for Halloween?
This looks like a fabulous activity. I really do love it and am really impressed. I think the animals add character and love the pumpkin. Angela x
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Thank you! I tried to make it fun with the animals, although Tyler got a bit cross at me for making the owl the train driver! x
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I’m so des-organised this year! Your post just reminded me that I haven’t even got a pumpkin to carve (and those bad boy always disappeared pretty quickly from the supermarket. I might pick one up during my lunch hour 😉
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Oh gosh, we haven’t got our pumpkin either, good idea to get one this week! x
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I love anything to do with crafts and diy. This looked like so much fun and always good memories for you with the kids.
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It’s a fun way to pass the time isn’t it! It was fun, but really messy too – all that glue! x
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Yeah I can only imagine x
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Very pretty! I love halloween and autumn especially inspired crafts. Would my perfect way to spend a day x
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Thank you, it was a nice way to pass a Sunday afternoon 🙂 xx
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I’m so glad I come across your post, I love all things Halloween, I’m actually in the midst of my Halloween feature and have been thinking of crafts me and my son can do together! I love the leaves especially, they add a brilliant touch to such a lovely piece of artwork! x
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Ooh have fun doing your Halloween crafts, there’s loads you could do! These leaves look so real, I can’t believe they’re plastic! xx
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I love your train, we should so have that one here n our station for Halloween. Stopping by from #TAT
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Thank you, that would be so cool to have one in your station! xx
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What a lovely idea! My little boy would just LOVE this! SO creative, I will have to give this a go myself!
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Thank you 🙂 Have a go, it was really fun to do! xx
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My eldest loves crafts and at every opportunity we get the crafts box out and do what we can. I love the train it looks great and I bet you guys had fun making it x
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Your eldest sounds like a younger me, I was always mad for crafts! Oh yes, it was really fun to make! xx
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That is a lovely autumn picture. My toddler loves crafts but I rarely do them with her I really must make more of an effort as it looks like this was lots of fun xx
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Thank you. I’m the same, I hardly ever did crafts with Tyler because of the mess, but now he’s 3, he’s getting more into doing these things. He really enjoyed it! xx
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I love how creative you are, the design is fab and would not look out of place at a good old screamtastic Halloween Party. Crafts are fun.
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Thank you, oh that would be so cool at a Halloween party! xx
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This looks fab, and so much fun! I’m looking forward to doing more crafts with my boy when he’s a bit older. He’s also obsessed with trains so would love this!
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Hee hee, love it, a fellow train fan! I’ve only just started doing crafts now that Tyler is 3, he really enjoyed it! xx
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Its absolutely wonderful. I love the witch and the cat. How do you find time for all of this. You are amazing mum 🙂
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Thank you! Aw that’s so kind of you to say 🙂 We did it on a Sunday afternoon, while my husband did all the cooking haha! xx
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Half term is next week and I am planning out what I can do with my little one and she would have an absolute blast with a crafts box. The train looks fantastic!
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Oh yes, a perfect half term activity! Have fun with your little one! xx
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We don’t celebrate Halloween but this is an amazing crafts idea that I think we could apply to something else – will be adding a few things to our next shopping list I think!!
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Oh yes you could totally apply it to anything else, it could be an Autumn themed train poster! xx
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That’s a great Halloween train, my little boy is also train obsessed so he would love it. The autumn leaves are so pretty with it as well
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Hehe, what is it with boys and trains! My boy was well impressed with this train, although disappointed he couldn’t actually drive it! xx
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This looks great. I love the pumpkin and the leaves make it really autumnal
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Thank you. Those leaves are great, really adds to the Autumn feel, and they’re plastic! xx
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Oh my gosh! It looks so cool! I’ve been on the hunt for big buttons like those! I love crafts and that one looks super cool and fun! But I’m still obsessed with the big buttons! 😀
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Thank you! I got this big bag of buttons from The Works for £1.99 – I think you need to get some haha! xx
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Wow it is cool! Love the witch on the broom. Very creative x
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Thank you! I think that’s my fave bit, the witch on the broom! xx
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This is such a lovely idea and the end result looks great. A great activity to do with the kids. We might try this over half term 🙂
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Thank you, it was great to pass the time on a Sunday afternoon! xx
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Oooo, I love this idea…just been looking for something for Sprog to do as he obsesses over pumpkins at the moment! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
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Thank you, haha that’s funny he’s obsessed with pumpkins! x
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