Witch Luminaries

Craft time! Who loves Halloween? I know we do. Last week (in the pic), we created a witch landing zone with a bale of hay, a broom, and a $5 witch from the craft store. Monkey was super excited about it.

Tonight, while scanning hulu plus, I noticed a Martha Stewart Halloween channel.  I happened to pull up an old video from her first season, where she makes paper luminaries. They look awesome!

Here's all you need:

Brown paper bags
Colored paper bags
Sand
Votive candles (you can use these rechargeable electric ones if you're concerned about fire)
Xacto knife
Witch silhouette

I already have all of the items sitting around my house, thanks in large part to saving every craft supply ever. A great thing about these luminaries is that even though they are just paper, you can save them and reuse them again, as long as you store them with care.

Here are the instructions:

1- Google 'witch silhouette' or any other creature. Cat, ghost, spider, skull, etc. Find an image you like and print it out to fit the size of your bag.
2- Place colored bag inside of brown bag and attach silhouette print out.
3- Use exacto knife to carve out areas around the silhouette.
4- Place sand in bottom of bag to weight it.
5- Place/light votive candles.

Simple as can be! Can't wait to make some witch and cat ones to accompany our witch theme.

If you're having trouble visualizing, here's a link to Martha Stewart's page with the instructional video.
http://www.marthastewart.com/926630/how-make-halloween-luminaries

*NOTE- in the video, she mentions that you can download the templates on her website. However, this video is very old and I couldn't find them anywhere. Fortunately, google saves the day, as usual. If you find the templates, let me know!

Enjoy!

Hugs,
-J