Welcome to
Supurr Spooky Greetings Pawesome Pals
Thanks for joining us for Part Two of our Halloween Crafting with Cats Rerun. Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff and we hope mew enjoy seeing it!
If mew missed Part One ~ Click Here.
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This time, we made some spooktacular catnip pumpkins, and of course, we needed a pawesome Spooky Haunted House backdrop for them!
But before we dive in and show mew how we made it, we have to say
**This is a photo stage set**
It is NOT an everyday playhouse for cats, and we wouldn't ever leave any kitties unattended with it, just in case they got a little too excited over all the fun things.
What We Used:
Catnip Pumpkins
Felt squares - we used orange, yellow, green and brown
Embroidery Thread and Needle
Stuffing/Wadding
and lots of homegrown BBHQ catnip and catmint
For The House
A large cardboard box - we used an Amazon pantry box as they're supurr sturdy
Non-toxic paint
Non-toxic glue
Paint brushes
House Decor
Spooky accessories - this is what we used:
We got a wicked selection of spooky items from our local B&M store:
Mini Pumpkin Lights [battery opurrated] ~ A Packet of Glow in the Dark Skelebobs ~ A Packet of Spiders and Bats ~ The Net Fabric For The Roof
The other items we used were sourced from stock within our craft room
7 x 5 mm wooden dowels - painted white
Grey felt for the curtains
Paw print ribbon to tie the curtains open
Green fake fur fabric
Wadding to put inside the floor of the box
Pom poms for window/door surrounds and door furniture
Elastic thread
Trees
The trees were part of a castle set we made a few years ago.
Fudge was today's Craft Room Snoopervisor.
The Spooky Haunted House
Under construction...
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1. We used this box
2. Then we carefully cut out a large access in the side
3. And repeated for windows and the front door
4. Fudge and his giant floof are making a preliminary inspection
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Pics/text: upper left to upper right, lower left to lower right
5. Obtain Full Feline Paw Print of Approval before continuing
6. Arrange the box lid into a purrleasing roof shape and glue - repeat the other side
7. Our roof has a flat piece of cardboard glued on the top of the roof, but if mew like to look at the stars, leave it open
8. Find a cardboard strip and play with it for at least 27.342 seconds
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9. It looked a little boring at this point, so we used a small cardboard box to make the chimneys
10. mega authentic wonky chimneys in situ
11 + 12. We painted the roof grey
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The entire house was whitewashed, and the front and side doors got a wood paint effect.
So there's your basic house, ready for anything!
Now It's Catnip Pumpkin Time
1. Cut out a felt circle - this one is 8.5" in diameter
2. Take a length of embroidery thread and securely knot the end
3. Thread the needle and use a simple running stitch all the way around the outer edge
4. Begin to pull stitches
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5. Homegrown organic catnip and catmint
6. Just because we thought mew'd like to see the product again
7. Take a little wadding/stuffing and lightly line the pumpkin
8. Add catnip
9. Add catmint, then more catnip and then more catmint until full
10. Place a small piece of wadding/stuffing in the top of the pumpkin, pull the stitches tight and sew up
11. Cut out leaf shapes
12. sew leaves to the pumpkin
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13. At this point, we decided that we needed more catnip pumpkins, so we made 3 more in different sizes using 2 different colours
14. Finished catnip pumpkins ready for action
And this is how our spooky house came out using the items above.
So our question to mew is this:
IS IT SPOOKY ENOUGH?
We think it turned out purretty neat, and the really good thing is we can take all the Halloween items off and use the basic house again for our Catmas Crafting with Cats post.
Smooch and Fudge even got dressed up! MOL
Smooch said, "Dude, the grass is definitely greener here!"
(We think he found some catnip!)
Take a peek at the video:
And that furbulous furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of our second Halloween Crafting with Cats Rerun.
We do hope mew liked it, and Amber will be back tomorrow with a brand new book review.
Until then....
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA
Wing Commander Basil & The B Team
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