**Spooky Crafting With Cats** **RERUN ~ PART TWO** How We Made The Catnip Pumpkin Toys and The Spooky Haunted House Photo Set

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!

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**Purrlease Note**

All Crafting with Cats ideas, and creations are our own designs.

Copyright ©BionicBasil® 

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 early last year

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 large access in the side

3. and repeated for windows and front door

4. Fudge and his giant floof making a preliminary inspection

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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 chimney's in situ

11 + 12. we painted the roof grey

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The entire house got whitewashed, with the front and side doors getting a wood paint effect.

So there's your basic house, ready for anything!

Now It's Catnip Pumpkin Time

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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

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9. add catmint, then more catnip and then more catmint until full

10. place a small piece of wadding/stuffing in top of the pumpkin, pull the stitches tight and sew up

11. cut out leaf shapes

12. sew leaves to 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 fur 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 furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of our second Halloween Crafting with Cats Rerun; we do hope mew liked it, and feel free to post your pawesome crafty pics or ideas on our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil & The 'B' Team @Facebook 

We'll be back tomorrow with the first of our supurr spooky Halloween Selfies!

Until then...

Spooky purrs

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable for any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information, you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and its staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from the use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

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**Spooky Crafting With Cats** **RERUN ~ PART ONE** How We Made Primo Nip Cat Toys featuring Bertie the Bat, Yummy Plumpkin Tartes and the Purple Peril Kicker

Welcome to

Supurr Spooky Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks for joining us for our supurr spooking Halloween Crafting with Cats rerun. Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too! 

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**Purrlease Note**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design and we share them for purrrsonal/home use only.

Copyright ©BionicBasil 

This time we're making these pawesome 
Primo Nip Toys!

What We Used:

Felt squares
Ribbon
Floof 
Needle and Thread
Sewing machine - optional
Stuffing/wadding
Primo Catnip - lots of 
2 x small pom poms
White embroidery thread

FYI: As the there was a big jar of catnip in the craft room the P.A. actually banned us during the construction phase for her own sanity! MOL

Bertie the Bat

1.  Cut out a simple pattern
2. Place on felt
3. Trace shape
4. Cut out two pieces

5. Sew pieces together, either by hand or on machine, leaving a small gap.
6. Get stuffing ready
7. And the catnip
8. Stuff Bert and sew up the gap

9. Use remaining felt 
10.  Trace wing pattern
11. Cut out one piece
12. Fold top edge of wings in centre

13. Tack the folds together

14. Attach to Berts back.

15. Bert should now look something like this

16. Cut out eyes and fangs and hand sew 

17. Take white embroidery thread and hand stitch the mouth and then securely sew on black pom poms for his eyes

18. Bertie the Bat is ALIVE!!!! 

Purple Peril Kicker Toy

1. Cut out the size mew want

2. Fold and sew up two edges

3. Turn right way out and stuff with wadding and catnip

4. Add the floof and ribbons to top edge, tack in place

5. Stitch securely along the top edge to fully secure ribbons and floof

6. And your finished kicker toy should look something like this

Yummy Plumpkin Tartes    

1. Mark the size plumpkin mew want on the felt

2. Cut out four pieces

3. Cut wadding slightly smaller add catnip

4. It should now look like a biscuit  

5. Pin all pieces together and sew edges

6. It should now look like this

7. Cut out leaf shapes and hand stitch to plumpkin

8. Your finished yummy plumpkin tartes should look something like this

Mew should now have some cute toys that look like these and it shouldn't take more than an hour to make them all

Mew may be wondering why the P.A. didn't glue things on... well, she said, and I quote. 

"Even though the glue I use is non toxic, I prefer to sew the smaller items like eyes, fangs and pom poms on by hand as there is less chance of them becoming detached due to vigorous play - I also wouldn't recommend using those plastic stick-on boggle eyes or the like as they could come off and be a choking hazard. I also recommend that you do a toy check regularly and throw away anything that is coming apart, is fraying or has any loose components."    

Ohhh that was good advice from the P.A. - Thank mew! MOL 

Now the really fun part...

In the testing lab

Smooch did get all of the toys while I went and had a little snack... but then I came back and ruined everything! MOL

As mew can see we were best purrleased with the new toys, we have more videos but this post is long enough! MOL



And that furriends furry sadly brings us to the end of our first Halloween Rerun post, we do hope mew liked it and feel free to post your pawesome crafty pics on our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil & The B Team @Facebook

We'll be back on the morrow with Amber's first book review of the new season, and her confession as to why she was falling off a dragon!!!! Yep, that really happened...

Spooky purrs

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA

Wing Commander Basil and The B Team

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created with paid licence www.canva.com and www.pizap.com