Witchy Hats

Scary witches’ hats are a wonderful option for treating others or gifting as party favors on Halloween.



 They also serve the purpose of table or tree decorations. These hats can be made using various materials but the most essential requirements are heavy craft paper or cardboard, craft knife and black paint. Children and adults both enjoy making these crafts and use them for treating or scaring during Halloween.



 To make these exciting hats, draw a semi circle on the sheet of heavy craft paper or cardboard. Make this semi circle using a compass, circular template or a bangle. Measure about 120 degrees angle from the center and draw a radius through 120 degrees. Make use of the protractor to have the exact angle measurement. Go for bigger size caps, by cutting a bigger circle from the sheet of paper. Cut the sheet of paper along the drawn semi circle using a craft knife or scissors. Cut the semi circle from the heavy craft paper, shape it into a cone. Shape the paper in such a form that resembles a witch’s hat. Glue or staple the paper at the required points or ends.



 Once you are done with the cone shaped hat, draw a full circle on the piece of paper. To draw this full circle, reset your compass to half the length of the radius of semi circle. Cut the full circle and use that sheet of paper for making the base of the hat. This completes the witch’s hat.

Popular Halloween Crafts

Halloween is much more than just costumes and Trick or Treating. This is a festival of joy and entertainment especially if you have younger children at home.


 From making masks out of paper to preparing scary decorations, there is multitude of fun Halloween crafts that you can do with your tiny tots.


 The most popular crafts include goodie boxes, ice cream stick pumpkins, paper bag pumpkins, pumpkin carvings, face masks, witch’s hat, haunted house, ghosts, spiders, flapping bats, cat patrol and milk jar.


 The most popular craft is the Jack-o-Lantern, a craft that originated from the ancient ceremony of feasting and welcoming the dead by the living. Most of the people during those days made face masks that resembled their deities and spirits. This blend of festival and art of making faces paved way for traditional pumpkins carved as Jack-o-Lanterns.


 People in the earlier times also used skulls and bones to store relics of their ancestors. They used celebrate a festival of reincarnation and invited their dead relatives and ancestors to the festival celebration by placing their skull. There was a time when people used to keep relics of their ancestors in the form of heirlooms and their bones, such as skulls, and used to honor them on celebrations and festivities and invite them to join their parties and festivities. This made the craft of pumpkin and Jack-o-lantern more popular in later years. Times may have changed now but the spirit of Jack-o-lantern remains. Children still enjoy them at parties.

Pumpkins Carving

Pumpkins are symbolic of Halloween craft and are popular in every part of the countries celebrating this festival. Pumpkins also indicate the beginning of Halloween season.



 Pumpkin carving is quite an easy method of decorating homes and using them as favors for the festival with some simple or detailed designs. The materials required for carving pumpkins include pumpkin, printer and paper, spoon or pumpkin scoop, small nail or pumpkin poker and serrate knife or pumpkin saw.



 To carve a pumpkin, first you cut a hole in the top for a lid. Then scoop out the seed and strings along with some flesh from the inside of the pumpkin. Decide the pattern and print it out on a piece of paper. Trim off excess paper and attach the cut pattern to the pumpkin using tape or pins. Through the pattern make holes in the pumpkin using a nail, push pin or pumpkin poker. The holes made should be at least 1/8th inch apart, so work patiently and carefully.



 After making the holes along the outline of the printed paper, remove the paper and use chalk powder to make the holes visible. Push a nail through the pumpkin skin and make the desired carving. Make eyes, nose or any other features by pushing a pin. Take the nail hole, as the starting point and then cut the carved design using a serrated knife or saw.



 Once the complete design is carved from the pumpkin, place a candle inside and close the lid.

Painting

Not every hobby is expensive. For instance, painting is not only inexpensive but also fun and enriching. Painting is one of the most creative forms of art. It is one hobby that neither of the gender dominates. Also presented as a couples’ hobby, painting is a liberating pastime. If both you and your partner are looking for a hobby that can be pursued together then painting is the one you should consider first. Painting is an all season activity. Irrespective of where you stay and what time of the year it is, you can always pick a paintbrush in your hand and start giving colors to your imagination.

Many people prefer to paint indoors as well as on cold winter days and not to forget, beach or seashore. It can enrich the relationship between the couple and open new doors of discussion. The fact that, every artist has a unique and personal style of painting makes this hobby a wonderful one to pursue. You don’t have to think about what is right and what is wrong way to paint. You just have to be creative. That’s all.

Painting is believed to be one of the most relaxing hobbies. Very much similar to reading in effect, painting is a perfect escape from daily stress of life. It is a productive hobby that allows you to create fine pieces of artworks. Apart from spending few bucks on brushes and paint, it is not at all an expensive hobby. Painting is lot of good plain fun that enriches your life remarkably.

Painting

Not every hobby is expensive. For instance, painting is not only inexpensive but also fun and enriching. Painting is one of the most creative forms of art. It is one hobby that neither of the gender dominates. Also presented as a couples’ hobby, painting is a liberating pastime. If both you and your partner are looking for a hobby that can be pursued together then painting is the one you should consider first. Painting is an all season activity. Irrespective of where you stay and what time of the year it is, you can always pick a paintbrush in your hand and start giving colors to your imagination.

Many people prefer to paint indoors as well as on cold winter days and not to forget, beach or seashore. It can enrich the relationship between the couple and open new doors of discussion. The fact that, every artist has a unique and personal style of painting makes this hobby a wonderful one to pursue. You don’t have to think about what is right and what is wrong way to paint. You just have to be creative. That’s all.

Painting is believed to be one of the most relaxing hobbies. Very much similar to reading in effect, painting is a perfect escape from daily stress of life. It is a productive hobby that allows you to create fine pieces of artworks. Apart from spending few bucks on brushes and paint, it is not at all an expensive hobby. Painting is lot of good plain fun that enriches your life remarkably.

Best out of waste

One of the most interesting hobbies seen around is making unique things out of things that one will usually discard. Often, we throw away broken glass pieces, torn clothes, plastic materials and other such things that are not useful to us. But, these things can be used quite creatively to make wall hanging, mats, curtains, clocks, paintings, holders etc. 

To make curtains, you can collect rugged cloth pieces of various sizes, torn saris and other clothing material that is not of any use. Try and collect attractive colors and cut long stripes of one cm each of the cloth. If some cloth pieces are short, stick them together and make it long. You can also dye these clothe stripes or paint them with some artistic designs. Now, take three stripes and plait them together. Do this with all the stripes available. Now connect two plaits with an attractive bead or a button. You can stitch these together and put them up on your windows. 

These may also be used as decorative wall pieces. There are many other creative things that can be made from waste and gift them away to friends as gift items. 

Another unique craft that you can make at home is a wall hanging made from broken glass bangles. Use different colored bangles and stick them on to a canvas. Now create designs on the same and paint them with attractive colors.

Use broken glass pieces to make a creative pen holder. Carefully pick some glass pieces and color them using permanent colors. You can also design those using permanent markers. Now using a powerful adhesive, stick these glass pieces haphazardly in such a way that it becomes like a holder. Fill the empty spaces if any with beads, pictures, or other decorative materials.

Hobbies for Men

Hobbies are a wonderful way to relax and rejuvenate the mind. Almost all of us have one hobby or the other. We don’t have a hobby because it pays us or we seek certain monetary benefits. We have hobbies because of sheer love for them. Men, women, kids and old people, all of them have hobbies of different nature. It depends upon our interest.

Talking about hobbies for men, the list can be intimidating. Some like to go for adventure sports like scuba diving or bungee jumping whereas some other prefer more serene hobbies like gardening or writing etc. Because of the varying likes and dislikes of different individuals, hobbies also tend to vary. But the sole purpose of having a hobby is to get relief from the hectic lifestyle, broaden your horizons and perspective on many aspects of life. It is also a wonderful way of learning new skills.

With the help of hobbies, men develop some new social contacts and develop a strong positive character. Some of the major hobbies for men are:-

Fishing & Camping:- It’s a great outdoor activity and a wonderful chance to share some intimate moments with friends and family members.

Adventure:- well, nothing can beat the thrill of adventure sports as a hobby. Popular adventure sports are, snowboarding, mountaineering, bungee jumping, river rafting, scuba diving and rappelling etc.

Carpentry:- ideally for men who are more of shy nature. It s a very skilled hobby and can fetch great monetary rewards as well.

Billiards or Pool:- loved by many men around the globe, this is a wonderful hobby to catch up with your friends and business associates.

Some of the other popular hobbies for men are fantasy Sports and Games like biking, and collections of coins, stamps, autographs etc.