Goblin Garland

At our house we love holidays and we love crafts even more.  It's probably my fault I've always loved seasonal crafts and have obviously infected my kids.  The only thing is.....I have three boys.  They are not interested in sitting with me and making anything remotely girl-centric.   Mind you they will use the whole spectrum of colors, flowers, lace, hearts and plenty of "girly" supplies.  Anyway, when I saw this great craft on Small for Big I knew the boys would love it.  Our version included, cutting, glueing and drawing.  

 First we cut a bunch of scraps out of back issues of magazines.  I looked for photos that had a lot of texture, in brown and green.  Later as we crafted I cut some blue and orange scraps when I realized we needed more color.  We also found some fun pics like snail shells and a bird.  I used Bar's template to cut Goblin heads from scrapbooking cardstock.  Actually the green was already painted on, I figured they'd use the unpainted side, but they went with it and used the painted side.

these are Oscars and the bottom two are sisters

 Anyway the whole thing was tons of fun.  After the glue dried I strung them up on some green garden twine
For more goblin inspiration check out Will Alexander's fantastical book Goblin Secrets.