Halloween Picks: The best craft idea books

This week’s Halloween post is a review of a few wonderful Halloween craft and recipe books that Wood Sprite and I have been exploring. All of these are great books, depending on what you want to use them for.

Glitterville’s Handmade Halloween: A Glittered Guide for Whimsical Crafting! Holy cow, this book is awesome. I always get in trouble for overusing my exclamation mark, so any book that ends in one is alright by me. My friend K would love this book because it’s full of glitter projects. Honestly I would love to have everything in here, from an adorable witch to a cute mushroom man, on display year round.

Artful Halloween: 31 Frigthfully Elegant Projects. Every craft in this book looks like something you would buy at the store: professional, elegant and lovely—even the fake hand in a jar! We usually do messier crafts in our house, but these challenges could be really fun to tackle. Make button spiders, ancient creepy photos and Halloween garland among many other cool crafts.

How to Make Frightening Halloween Decorations. This one is much more our style; it’s very DIY, scary, gross and artsy, and you can tell the projects are homemade. It’s a children’s book, so I guess that helps! Make witch’s brew, glow in the dark aliens and disgusting intestines in a jar (with pantyhose)!

Paper Crafts for Halloween: Wood Sprite really loves this book. Make paper bats, masks, skeleton crowns and black cats out of paper.

A Ghastly Good Halloween. Here is your guide for the best Halloween recipes! There are also crafts and decorating ideas. Make brains, cobweb salad and looking at you meatballs.
Halloween Origami: This is pretty self-explanatory. Wood Sprite loves the origami black cat, and I like the sweet little ghosts.

Photo courtesy of Wood Sprite.