DIY Halloween Sign & Artwork Display

Hal­loween & fall dec­o­rat­ing is now in full swing here! That also means the kids’ Hal­loween & fall related art projects are too! While try­ing to come up with a solu­tion to the influx of papers last year, I made an “Autumn” sign that dou­bled as an art­work holder. It was WONDERFUL! But for Octo­ber this year,  I wanted some­thing more Halloween-ish! So, I made a Hal­loween sign & art­work holder dis­play! We needed Elmer’s black foam board to do the board. So, the lit­tles and I took a trip to Wal­mart for craft sup­plies and gro­ceries! {You can view that shop­ping trip here}… Like always, we found more than what we went for. It was good finds though, like foot­ball paper plates for all of our col­lege foot­ball “home­gat­ing” and Star Wars trick ‘or treat bags for the boys! Plus, we got every­thing extra we needed for the sign project and groceries!

Once back at home, the first step was spray paint­ing the leaves and clothes­pins. If you decide to make this, you can choose what­ever embell­ish­ments you’d like. I decided that I wanted it to still have a fall feel (with the leaves), but wanted the leaves mostly black (with just a lit­tle orange). So, I spray painted the clothes pins orange and black also.

Once all that was dry, then it was time to gather up all the sup­plies. To make the board just like mine, here’s what you’ll need:

• Elmer’s Black Foam Board
• Craft­Bond™ Glue Spots Thin-Small
• Hot Glue & Glue Gun
• Orange scrap­book­ing paper or cardstock
• Elec­tronic cut­ter (Cri­cut, Sil­hou­ette, etc) or scis­sors (to hand cut)
• X-ACTO knife
• clothes­pins
• Var­i­ous “silk” fall leaves & foliage
• spray paint
• wire & duct tape
• spi­der & pump­kin embellishments
• Elmer’s 3D orange glit­ter paint pen
• spi­der webbing

The first impor­tant step is to cut your foam board to the desired size. I used an X-ACTO knife to cut it and made it about 6″ tall (but the whole length of the board). Once that was done, I put on the let­ters to spell “Hal­loween”. I used my Cri­cut to cut out the let­ters, sized at 4.25″.  To attach the let­ters, I used the thin Glue Spots. Glue Spots are SO awe­some for their ease of use, while cre­at­ing a bit of dimen­sion. Once the let­ters were on,  I hot-glued on the clothes­pins with the back por­tion of the pin attached to the back of the board. Doing it this way allows the clothes­pin to still be func­tional in the front. Of course, if you don’t want it to dis­play art­work, pho­tos would be fun too. Or you could just leave the clothes­pins off entirely and just have a cute Hal­loween sign! Then, the whole rest of the process is adding your embell­ish­ments! I hot-glued on the spray painted leaves to each side. Then, decided to add some glit­tery jack ‘0 lantern stick­ers I found while shopping–one on each side. I also had some plain felt spi­ders that I thought would be a good addi­tion too. But, they were a lit­tle hard see on the black. Adding eyes with my orange Elmer’s 3D glit­ter paint pen was the per­fect solu­tion though! The last part of the process was adding just a lit­tle bit of spi­der web­bing to the front & a wire to hang it with on the back! I love the way it turned out! Just the right bit of spooky & cute. It’s per­fect for hang­ing their projects! I made a whole wall dis­play then with the sign & their art, my DIY Hal­loween can­vas art, & some cut out bats! Fun, huh?! What Hal­loween dec­o­ra­tions do you have up?

For more crafty #Glu­enGlit­ter inspi­ra­tion, you can check out all the following:

• Elmer’s on face­book &  twit­ter
• Elmer’s Craft It! on face­book
• Glue ‘n Glit­ter on face­book & twit­ter

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