Halloween Mantel If you follow along with our website regularly, you’ll know how much I love to decorate my fireplace mantel. It is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to change up the decor in my home. I love to change it with the various seasons, holidays and other major events in our home…
DIY Non-Scary Halloween Decorations
I know what’s you’re thinking: non-scary Halloween decorations? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the holiday? Not when you have small children. Miss O is 2 and finds most things to do with Halloween quite scary. She freaks out when we go into a store and they have big hairy spiders hanging from the ceiling…
6 DIY Halloween Costumes
We’ve had a busy Halloween season here at The Inspired Home! All of our kids requested something a little different this year so each of us flexed our crafty muscles and created a custom DIY costume for each of them. In case you’re counting, that’s 6 kids in total! The kids range from ages 2-7…
Yo-Kai Jibanyan Costume with DIY Bell + Collar
Whether you like to make a DIY costume, do a little DIY to make an existing costume more special or buy it all off the rack, trying to get the Halloween costume right can a source of stress. But it doesn’t have to be…well unless you have an October 30 mind changer. We asked the…
DIY Fall Planter
I had the opportunity to spend a portion of last week with my sister. I can say for certain both of us inherited my mom’s green thumb. We choose to use it in different ways. I love growing my own food, and my sister has a knack for splitting plants and seeing the long-term vision…
Fall Pumpkin Crafts for Thanksgiving and Halloween
It’s October 1st! It’s officially fall and time to start planning for Thanksgiving and Halloween. Here is a collection of fabulous fall crafts you can make with your kids all centred around the official fall fruit: pumpkins! There are crafts and recipes for all different ages included in this roundup of pumpkin crafts. …