Halloween Decorations
With Halloween creeping a little closer this is the perfect time to make bat Halloween stencils. Using this Halloween bat stencil you can transform your home into a spooky Halloween bat cave.
Making bat Halloween stencils is an easy printable craft for children and grown ups who like make Halloween decorations to celebrate Halloween. To transform your home into a spooky bat cave this Halloween you’ll need a few craft supplies and some black material to drape from your walls and ceiling.
To make the Halloween bats for the bat cave you simply need to download this black and white bat stencil. To make smaller sized bat Halloween stencils just reduce the size before you reprint the stencil.
Print on standard size printer paper and cut around the bat Halloween stencils leaving about a three centimeter allowance. Cutting away this waste paper will allow you to glue more bats onto thick craft card or cardboard. Read more »
Heart Craft Stencils
Have you thought about making a gift card that says I love you! Love heart stencils make it real easy to turn a colored piece of paper into a loving gift card. Loving gift cards can be given all year round and this gift card can even accompany a Valentines Day gift. Making love heart gift cards just requires a few stationery supplies and of course Pixabella’s printable love heart stencils.
To make all sorts of love heart gift cards you can print love heart stencils onto any sort of paper. Designer printer paper can also be used by printing the love heart stencils directly onto it. You might ask how? Well these love heart stencils all have a black border.
Having a black border makes the love heart stencils easy to cut out. For some of you who don’t feel like coloring or painting you can just print directly onto designer printer paper. Now if you don’t have designer printer paper you can always use handmade paper, card stock or even pretty writing paper with no lines.
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Star Stencils or Coloring Pages
Star stencils can be used to brighten up Christmas cards or as coloring pages that will keep the kids busy for a few hours. Coloring in star stencils is a fun everyday activity but what if they could make pretty decorations for Christmas or to pop on the Christmas tree. Making handmade Christmas decorations makes the Christmas tree look less commercial and more homely plus it gives the children a nice feeling when they see their own star decorations on the Christmas tree.
Star stencils are easy to print and you really don’t need a lot of art supplies to make these Christmas decorations. If you have some aluminum foil in the kitchen that you use for cooking this will be perfect or you could try metallic wrapping in all of the Christmas colors. For this star stencil project you’ll also need scissors, glue, string or cotton, hole punch and cardboard to stick the star print out too. All of these art supplies are relatively cheap to buy but I am sure you’ll have most of supplies tucked away in a draw.
To get this project underway start by printing off as many star worksheets as you need to decorate the tree with. Stick every star stencil that you’ve printed to the cardboard and wait for it to dry. Cut out each star carefully but if it happens to look a little wobbly it doesn’t matter, it adds to the spirit of Christmas.
OK. Grab your aluminum foil or metallic wrapping paper and cut enough off the roll to decorate your stars with. There are no rules here so you can mix and match the colors or just use one color to embellish your star stencils. Read more »
Valentine Coloring Pages or Heart Stencils
Heart stencils are great because they can be used on holiday gifts, Valentine’s Day or as craft projects for kids. By downloading my printable heart stencils you can use it in three amazing ways to make fun paper craft projects. This heart stencil contains four different shaped hearts to make your project look lovely. All the hearts have a black border which make it real easy for printing, cutting, coloring or painting.
Heart stencils can also be used to make complex or easy paper craft projects like Anniversary cards, Christmas decorations, Birthday Invitations or Valentine’s day gift bags. For this printable to be used a as heart stencils it needs to made to feel rigid. Once printed simply glue the printable stencil onto the back of cardboard and wait for it to dry. Take your scissors and poke a hole through the heart and carefully cut the middle out making sure to follow the outline. (Note: Please ensure the scissors are child safe, if not supervise the kids whilst their cutting or alternatively cut out the hearts for them.)
When the hearts have been cut out, the kids will love moving around their heart stencils around a piece of paper and painting inside the heart shapes. Just think how much fun they’ll have mixing new paint colors and painting the hearts with pretty patterns. If you’re wanting a mess free day your children can still have fun and use the same stencil as a heart template without the paint. Read more »
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November 5, 2009 8:30 pm | 
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