DIY Halloween: Character Blocks

This has to be my favorite craft project of the bunch. These little character blocks turned out so cute! I hope you give them a try!

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Square wooden dowel
• Acrylic paint (black, white, orange, green, purple)
• A piece of stick from the outdoors (for the jack-o-lantern stem)
• Black pipe cleaners
• Paintbrush
• Hot glue/hot glue gun

1. Cut 5 2″ pieces from the wooden dowel. To save your arms, I recommend using an electric saw but I used a hand saw for these.
2. Paint each block in a different color. I did two coats on these.

For the Vampire, I painted the top black and made brought it down the sides slightly for is widows peak. I did a simple face with little fangs on each side of his mouth.

For the Ghost, all that’s needed is 3 larger circles for the eyes and mouth.

For Frankenstein’s Monster, I painted the top black and then did a cute little squiggly hairline the whole way around. I painted 3 small dots for the eyes and nose, a squiggly line for the mouth, and added some stitches to his forehead.

For the Jack-O-Lantern, I just painted 3 small triangles for the eyes and nose, and a toothy grin for the mouth. I took a small piece of a stick I got from my backyard and hot glued it to the top for the stem!

For the Spider, I used some yellow to paint two large circles for the eyes, I then added two little black dots and used white to paint two small fangs. The cut 4 small pieces of black pipe cleaner, folded the pieces in half, and then bent the top part up to create two little legs each. Then I bent the bottom to create a joint to make it look more like spider legs. Lastly, I hot glued the top part of the legs to the sides of the block. I think another really cute idea for this black block would be a bat, instead of the pipe cleaner legs just cut out small wings from some cardstock and attach to the sides!

There you have it, four fun craft projects to try at home to create some really cute Halloween and fall decorations! As always, if you try one out and post it to Instagram tag me in your photos because I would love to see your creations!