Perfect for 6 to 12 year olds the Halloween Book of Fun by National Geographic is packed full of quizes, educational games, creative ideas to make your own costume and make up. …

Ever since I have discovered Zentangles I have been hooked. This Halloween Tangles is  a doodle drawing to print and colour. Plenty of doodles to keep the kids busy for a while. Hope you …

Recently I have discovered the Zentangle method, an art form that uses structured patterns to make beautiful drawings. I have always liked to doodle unorganised patterns on a piece of paper, whenever I have …

Halloween is just over a month away so I had a look around for themed food ideas and these are my picks. Green Eyed Monster cupcakes found on Taste of Home and Ham and …

I made a selection of Halloween lollipops to treat the kids who will knock on the door this evening. They are simple Chupa Chups dressed up as pumpkins, bats and ghosts.   To …

Today is Halloween and this year we have a real pumpkin for the first time. When we lived in Sardinia it was near to impossible to get a pumpkin so we used our imagination …

I have mentioned before how hard t is to get real pumpkins here in Sardinia, so we just try our best to make alternative jack-o’-lanterns to maintain the Halloween spirit. Our fishbowl this year or …

Halloween is over a month away but we are already preparing for it. In fact I think the anticipation is part of the fun and certainly makes the occasion last longer. Unfortunately where we live …

Snakes and ladders is one of our favourite games so we often adapt it to special themes and Halloween seemed like the perfect occasion to slightly modify it. Our haunted snakes and ladders is very …

To complete our homemade set of Halloween lights this year we made a Frankenstein lantern to join the pumpkin and vampire from last year. Only this time instead of painting the jars we opted for …

Pumpkins are not readily available where we are so this year we turned a washing powder container into our jack’ o’ lantern.  The process was fun and the skill necessary is definitely less much less …

This week I bring you a craft for Halloween which is entirely my son’s from idea to completion. In true recycle style he made two lanterns using just glass jars, paint, crease paper and floating …