A DIY chalkboard sign is a sure-fire way to dress up any part of your home or to beautify a party in a fun and fancy way. What you need for making a cute chalkboard sign are chalk or chalkboard ink markers, Crayola chalk sticks, a ruler or yardstick or one of the handy Cricut rulers (if there’s any circular shape), a magic eraser or damp cleaning rag, scrap paper, and definitely a chalkboard. What you need is just start making your signs (you can use a stencil, if you wanted to) and Step back from time to time to evaluate your progress. Use a magic eraser or damp cleaning rag to help you make the perfect signs.
More printable about Halloween you may like:
Halloween Pumpkin Stencils Printable
Halloween Printables For Teachers
Printable Halloween Worksheets Kindergarten
A homemade chalkboard is actually easy to make. You need to cut a couple of boards and drill some holes and that’s pretty much it. This is a perfect DIY project for everyone including beginners. And it also very very cheap. Here’s what you need for making a chalkboard:
Four 1” x 4” x 8′ furring strips, Minwax dark walnut stain, 4’ x 8’ sheet of 1/4” thick plywood, chalkboard paint, small foam paint roller, wood glue, painters tape, 3/4” wood screws, chalk, 2 drawer pulls for chalk holders, clean rag, and a drill
First step: Cut two of the furring strips to 93” long, and two of the furring strips to 51” long. These will make the frame of the chalkboard. To paint the frame parts with the Minwax Dark Walnut paint, use a clean rag.
Step two: Use a foam roller to paint one side of the plywood with chalkboard paint. Allow to dry, then paint another two coats.
Step three: Lay the boards you cut and stained, face-down. Use wood glue to attach the sides to the top and bottom pieces. Use painters tape to hold it in place while the glue dries.
Step four: Lay the chalkboard face-down centered on the frame. To securely mount the chalkboard to the frame, use wood screws.
Last step: Attach two drawer pulls upside-down along the bottom side of the frame to serve as a chalk holder.
To make your Halloween food station stand out, you might want to come up with a food board. Sweets, freshness, and savory, all these foods can fill up your food board. If you are looking for a recommendation, just check this out to get inspired!
Fill your wooden food board with light snacks. You can go with pretzels, cookies, candies, donuts, chips, nachos, and many more. Decorate those foods with the spooky theme. Turns out the cookies into a monster look. The Oreo cookies are perfect for bat. Jack o lantern donut will be spot on too!
Gather some fruits to turn into the skull. Select the fruits that belong to your favorite. Strawberries, watermelons, and bananas are easy to decorate as eerie things.
If you planning to have a barbeque party, just place the veggies and meat on the wooden board while arranging it to be eerie looks.
If your kids already have a plan to attend a Halloween party, make them participate in making the accessories to improve their looks. Hairpin sounds to be great to handcraft. Let’s check this out to get inspired!
Prepare the plain hairpin, glue, and wiggle eyes. Take the ingredients for the kids to make their own version.
Instruct them to stick the wiggled eyes on the hairpin as they wish. It is such a simple design to wear for the party. You can also go to DIY the spider hairpin. Stick the plastic spider into the hairpin. Let the kids wear it along with the spider theme costume.
While serving the treats for Halloween, think to go with the pops. Make the ones with spooky designs to attract the kids. Check the below tutorial to have the Halloween pops design.
Make the monster pops. All you need to prepare are the Oreo, chocolate liquid, green food color, sprinkle candies, and edible eyes. Insert the wooden skewer into the Oreo.
Dip it in chocolate liquid. Spread the sprinkled candies on the hair part. Stick an edible eye in the middle. Let it dry and display it on the Styrofoam.
You can also go with the lollipop shape. Make it looks like Jack O lantern and dip it in the orange chocolate liquid. Add garnish with the face items and the green stem.