Shadow Puppet Theater

 This Halloween season we celebrated at our church ward party. We were assigned a door to decorate for trick or treating. My husband wanted to do a shadow puppet theater.I thought that was a great idea. So....he did. He used a black foam board and cut out a background silhouette with an exacto knife.
 



He then adhered a piece of white tissue paper on the back of the board. He choose some Halloween images and drew them on black cardstock. Then cut them out using my Cutter Bee paper scissors. (Luv those scissors!)

Then he attached the puppets to a wire stick and bent the end for a holder. He found some kid friendly Halloween jokes for his puppet play. He had a spotlight pointing on the back of the theater screen and told jokes in a silly voice as the puppets walked by in the scenery. Too funny. 

 The kids loved it. I was laughing. Then after a while the little kids thought it was so funny that one even decided to try to poke one of the puppets and succeeded in poking a hole right through the tissue paper. haha. Classic.
Happy Halloween.

~Christie

Sewing: Green Lantern T-shirt

Last minute costume! Younger teenage boy wanted to participate in Halloween but not "dress up" in full on costume. So, I made a Green Lantern T-shirt using fabric paint and pellon. I used a cereal bowl, cup, and jenga blocks for my Lantern template. I basically pieced them together and used a fabric marker to mark my design. Then I hand painted the symbol in white fabric paint. When it had completely dried, I painted a layer of glow in dark fabric paint over the entire symbol. (It totally glows in the dark.) I then measured the area that I wanted to cut out and did the same with a piece of pellon iron on. I ironed on the pellon to the backside of the green rectangle. Then peeled the paper off of the green rectangular piece and placed it onto the shirt. I then placed a piece of cotton over the design and ironed on the green rectangle to the shirt. I did this carefully. After the piece was firmly adhered and cooled it was ready to sew. I used a stretch stitch and sewed a 1/4 inch around the border of the green rectangle.  

And whala...

Glow in the dark Green Lantern T-shirt. 

Quite fun.

~Christie

Sewing: Hermione Costume

   The other night we watched the first Harry Potter and ate Bertie Botts every flavour Beans. It was fun. Lots of laughter and eeks from trying the different disgusting flavors. (I will never do it again.) My older daughter decided to be Hermione this Halloween. It was perfect because I already had the Harry Potter school robe from when the boys went through that phase. I altered one of my boys white collared shirts to fit her size. I also altered one of my black dress skirts to fit her size. (She loved that.) 

    Then I found one of the boys gray wool vests from their boyhood. It was perfect because of the red stripe. I also had one of their blue clip on ties.At first she did not want anything to do with a tie. "Ties are for boys!" So I crocheted a Gryffindor scarf in their house colors. It seemed to take forever because it was all done in a single crochet stitch.

      She will wear black tights and black shoes and be outfitted with a wand, of course. Her hair will be perfect for it, and she is so super excited for Halloween. She is practicing her role and I am trying not to giggle. Too fun.

~Christie