a spooky crafternoon

for Blogtober Day 13

My youngest daughter Rose visited me today as she’d requested a Sunday lunch of bangers and mash and gravy, so after I’d plied her with food, we got started on a craft activity organised by my older daughter Amber, who’d requested a Sunday crafternoon as her boyfriend was going off on a trip and she knew she would be sad and lonely.

I homeschooled my three children until GCSE so craft activities are the absolute bread-and-butter of a home-ed home, but I’m pleasantly surprised as how much they still enjoy these sort of group things; my son would have joined in too but he was unavailable on this occasion. Amber wanted to do the autumnal trend of painting ghosts and pumpkins on to a charity shop picture but none of us could find a suitable painting, so instead I put together a page of random but vaguely spooky images for us to embellish with all the fall vibes. I printed off a copy for Rose and me, and emailed Amber a copy for her to print out as she lives up north.

We sat down with our supplies, although Amber couldn’t find her paintbrushes so had to improvise with a make-up brush and a cocktail stick. We started with white paint for ghosts, then moved onto orange pumpkins, followed by black bats, then the detail on the ghosts. Sausage also wanted to join in: being a black cat he feels he should oversee any Halloween-esque activities. Actually he likes being involved in any art activity, and often joins my mum and me when we do our Wild Life Drawing events, helpfully sitting on a sketchbook and blocking the screen before panicking about my parents’ dog coming in, necessitating a complicated and messy retreat.

Anyway, back to today’s crafternoon:

Here are our paintings – (mine, Rose’s, and Amber’s, from left to right):

Have you done any autumn or Halloween crafts?