Make Halloween Miniatures and Projects for Decorations and Party Favors

These miniature coffin boxes are easily made using your printer, a pair of scissors and some glue. They are large enough to fit a miniature skeleton in dolls house scale, and can also be filled with candy for table favors.

• printable miniature coffin boxes

Skulls are an easy shape to model from polymer clay, air dry clay, or epoxy putty for beads or miniature Halloween decorations. You can also make edible miniature sugar skulls from fondant, or easy skulls from commercial marshmallows following these instructions for Modelling Miniature Skulls.

• Make Printable Pumpkin Treat Boxes

There are lots of ways to make decorations from Halloween Characters. Skeletons and dolls can be dressed in costumes and used to hold place cards, or identifying signs for buffets.

• Make a Halloween Witch in 1:12 scale or 1:48 scale from paper or fabric.
• Make a Miniature Felt Cowboy Hat
• Make a Miniature Tricorne Hat for a Pirate

Bats make great decorations for Halloween trees, wreaths, and villages. These scale miniature bats are made of polymer clay or epoxy putty. The ones shown here are 1:12 dolls house scale, but you can make them in smaller or larger sizes to suit your scene. You can roost them in trees or hang them from attic rafters.

• Make Miniature Bats

These dolls house scale mice can be made larger for rats, or smaller as mice. They are made with air dry clay, and can be sculpted to be cute or frightening, depending on how you want to use them in a scene.

• Make Miniature Rats and Mice

If you need a display background, or a quick house for a haunted scene, these free printable roofs, porches, windows and doors in two sizes are an easy way to turn boxes into haunted houses. They are easy projects for a child or a class. The smaller sizes will make backdrops or houses that fit with standard commercial villages. The additional printables (not shown) give you a lot of scope to make more detailed and complex houses quickly from a minimum of materials. You can make the houses as facades or background silhouettes only, or cut open the windows and make houses with interiors.

If you prefer a miniature "glitter" house style, you can use these tiny printable buildings to make a range of haunted houses in roughly 1:144 scale, suitable for use with N scale trains. The parts can be used as templates for gingerbread houses if you wish.

• Make Miniature Haunted Houses
• Miniature Haunted Farmhouse and Barn

This poseable miniature cat is easy to make using simple needlefelt techniques. You can make a basic short haired cat as shown, or adapt the instructions to make cats with longer coats. The size of the cat can be adjusted to make a range of different scale models. As shown here, the cat is in 1:12 scale.

You can use the technique shown here for miniature dolls (witches, warlocks, monsters) or animals, like the halloween cat, or make eyeballs large enough to put in full size displays or on costumes. The eyes can be made to look bloodshot by mixing thread fibers into the white eyeball layer of the eye. Adding extra glaze or tar gel medium to the eyeball will give them a wet look.

You can make mushrooms of all varieties, including "poisonous" ones using Delight air dry clay and paint or pastels or using polymer clay. Although this technique shows how to make the mushrooms very small, you can adapt the instructions to make larger mushrooms for beads, costumes, or decorations using the same techniques.