How to Make Halloween Placemats

Series Summary

Halloween is a great holiday for fun and festivities the whole family can enjoy. Dating back to the 5th century BC in Celtic Ireland, Halloween originally may have developed on a day when the Celts believed that spirits could intermingle with the living, and so would dress up in ghoulish scary costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood being destructive, in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. Today, the Halloween holiday is more fun and playful with children and adults dressing up in scary Halloween costumes for trick or treating or a fun Halloween party. Many people carve Halloween pumpkins to make Jack-O-Lanterns, and also decorate with fake spider webs, bats, ghosts, and other ghoulish decorations.

In this free series of video our expert will demonstrate how to make Halloween placemats. You will learn easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to make a variety of Halloween placemats including a foam placemat for children, felt placemats, and pumpkin placemats. This is great craft video to share with children. If you are decorating for a Halloween party or with the kids, let our expert show you this fun and easy craft.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village, and I'm also the official mom from mommywood.com. Today we are going to be making some Halloween-themed placemats. There are many options out there nowadays; if you want to keep it simple, or if you want to get a little fancier, you can go crazy at the fabric store (at the craft store) picking out embellishments. If you want to do something that is tailored more to younger children, we have a project like that. It's a placemat made out of foam completely. You don't even need glue, you can use just little appliqués (and these are easy to find; they are readily available at pretty much any craft store). And I'm going to show you how to do that. That's great, because it will keep the kids entertained at a party and then when it's time to set the table, they can pick their places and make the table look really cute. So that's one of the placemats we are going to make. If you want to keep it really simple, but you want some sort of fabric, you can go ahead and use felt. You don't have to worry about felt unraveling or finishing it off any other way other than some simple and fun embellishments. If you are handy with a sewing machine, you can make something like this. This is fabric and it's easy and quick to make. It's lined with just some cotton on the back. And if you want to do fabric, but you don't have a sewing machine, you can make something like this. This doesn't require any sewing, but when it's finished, it looks like you've either bought it at the store or spent a lot of time working on it. There are so many embellishments out there these days that you can use. And you can go with ric-rac or ribbon, or these little foamy words and little pictures that are adorable. There's tons of fun stuff that you can do out there. So, stick around, and I'll share some of my tricks with you. "