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If you're looking for another way to celebrate fall, Halloween and D铆a聽de los Muertos, 蜜柚直播's many maker spaces are offering all kinds of autumn-themed crafts this month.
From painting to paper flowers, here's where you can explore your creative side in October.
Paint your heart out
Arte Bella has Halloween-themed painting classes on its schedule this month.
Our favorite paint spots are hosting dozens of spooky paint nights this month. Paint Disney villains, colorful pumpkins, witches and creepy trees.
Check out the following links for classes at local shops:
- Creative Juice,
- October class schedule , including a Halloween cat, sugar skulls, a witch and Jack and Sally from "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
- Tipsy Picasso, varying locations
- October class schedule , including Jack and Sally wine glasses, "Hocus Pocus" and a painting of Disney's Maleficent
- Arte Bella,听聽in Park Place Mall, and聽
- October class schedule for Park Place , including horror movies such as "Scream" and "Friday the 13th," a creepy candy corn, a ghost cutie and a colorful fall scene. Find the class schedule for the Fourth Avenue location, which has some similar paintings,听
- Creative Kind,
- Sign up for a Halloween watercolor class , where you'll paint a cat, pumpkin and haunted house
Create your own glass pumpkin
For $95, you can make your own pumpkin at Sonoran Glass School.
Get an introduction to furnace glassblowing at Sonoran Glass School, ,听with their pumpkin fiesta.聽
The $95 make-your-own pumpkin experience allows visitors to create their own glass pumpkin with whatever colors and design elements they choose. Proceeds support the school and its youth education programming.
Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 520-884-7814 at least 24 hours in advance to schedule a spot.
You can also visit the school through the month of October to browse through hundreds of colorful handmade pumpkins and other fall-themed glass artwork for sale, plus watch live glassblowing demonstrations.聽
Find more information about Sonoran Glass School's pumpkin fiesta .
D铆a聽de los Muertos聽crafts
The annual All Souls Procession is hosting workshops at the MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida de Convento, every Sunday in October, where attendees can make cardboard masks or add to the event鈥檚 large-scale community puppet.
The annual is hosting workshops at the MSA Annex, , every Sunday in October, where attendees can make cardboard masks or add to the event's large-scale community puppet. Find more information .
On Thursday, Oct. 21, stop by Tohono Chul, , to create marigolds out of crepe paper for a D铆a聽de los Muertos聽ofrenda (altar) with Luna's Paper Designs. Find more information about the $45 workshop .
Luna's Paper Designs is also hosting a number of other workshops, including a paper mache Xoloitzuintle D铆a聽de los Muertos聽dog, crepe paper marigolds and paper masks. Find more information聽.
On Sunday, Oct. 24, visit Presidio San Agust铆n聽del 蜜柚直播 Museum, ,听for a $5 workshop centered around the history of ofrendas. Workshop attendees will be able to make paper flowers for an聽ofrenda or a paper crown to wear to the All Souls Procession. Find more information .
On Monday, Oct. 25, cooking school Flying Aprons 蜜柚直播 is hosting a $75 class at La Estrella Bakery, ,听centered around creating sugar skull molds, plus decorating a sugar skull, cookie and Pan de Muerto. Find more information .
Other random crafting events this month
On Sunday, Oct. 24, create a聽, loosely shaped as a pumpkin and filled with colorful wood flowers with Good Things 蜜柚直播.
蜜柚直播 is home to lots of spots to get your craft on. Here are some miscellaneous fall-themed crafts:
Creative Kind,听
Create an 18-inch fall-themed wreath on a grapevine base at Creative Kind on Friday, Oct. 15. The workshop is $55. Find more information .
Children's Museum 蜜柚直播,听200 S. Sixth Ave.
Visit the Children's Museum 蜜柚直播 on Saturday, Oct. 23, for the museum's monthly "Make It!" workshop. This month's theme is spooky creatures. During the $15 workshops, kids have the chance to design, build and create various projects. Find more information .
Good Things 蜜柚直播,听
On Sunday, Oct. 24, create a聽, loosely shaped as a pumpkin and filled with colorful wood flowers. The workshop is $55. See Good Things 蜜柚直播's full class schedule聽.
Life Under the Oaks Lavender Farm,听聽in Oracle
On Saturday, Oct. 30, visit Oracle's lavender farm for a witch festival filled with crafting opportunities from decorating a witch hat, making a lavender witch broom and creating clay pumpkins. The festival is $15 per person, but children under 12 years old can enter for free. Visit the farm's website聽聽for more information.