Halloween shadow makers
My sons are crazy about torches at the moment and love to hide in the pantry with the lights off scaring one another!! With this in mind I thought it would be a great idea to make them these little shadow makers for Halloween.
The best thing is that they are very easy to make – all you need is some black paper, a craft knife, sticky tape and some wooden sticks.
I have scanned in my shadow makers which you can use as a template. Click here to download (pdf). Simply print out the template and cut round the shapes. Alternately you can use the template to trace the ‘shadows’ onto a black piece of paper. I used some wooden coffee stirrers to stick the ‘shadows’ onto. They were the perfect size and free!
In the next 3/4 days I hope to write a tutorial about making a cereal box shadow theater so stay tuned!
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Morgan #
I adore these! Can’t wait to make them for my son.
Squeaks #
Would love a template for these – thank you!
Maria #
They are wonderful! I’d love the template! Thank you!
Diego's Dad #
I’m in! Template please.
JM #
Oh, yes please! Awesome!
Amy #
I love these! Template please!
3rdEyeMuse #
found your link on Craftzine … these shadow makers are AWESOME! thanks for sharing your templates.
Helen #
Wow – these are great! Can’t wait to see the theater.
Un planeta de manualitats #
Hello!
I recently opened an art blog because I’m doing a creativity Workshops in a primary school.
It’s proupouse is to show the projects made by the childrens who participate on it.
I really like your blog because you are always proposing new ideas and interesting things to do. I would like to share ideas with you, for that I will link your web site adding your site to my favourite web sites.
Kate #
Thank you un planeta de manualitats!
grace #
Love these. Now on my list for homeschol crafts next week. Thanks.
Trisha #
So fun! Thank you!
Something else you can do to add to this is to put the sticks in a decorated can or a glass jar filled with candy corn or even beans and put a votive in it. Put the stick in front of the votive I think and fix things so there is a strong shadow cast and flickering on the wall:)
Kate #
Great idea Trisha….I confess I had to look up ‘votive’ to see what it meant!! But yes….tealights are on my shopping list in the next few days.
Karin #
Wow, great results! What fonts did you use on the pictures? It looks so pretty
Mischa #
These are so cool, I love making things! Please can i have a template? Thanx
Kate #
Hi Mischa….there is a link to the template in the text above. Have fun!
Celestial Elf #
Love your shadow makers, they are brilliant
thought you might like my machinima version of Tim Burton’s
This Is Halloween
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhnhJHezmU
Happy Halloween
Anna #
I can’t wait to make these for my kiddos! They are obsessed with flashlights right now and I know they’ll just love these shadow makers. Thanks for the template!
Casey McCarley #
Could I get a template, please?!? These are too cute!
Kate #
See link highlighted in yellow above ^_^