| Looking for some great Halloween crafts for your | | | | jug to collect candies? Cut off the top two inches of a |
| Halloween party, haunted house, or just for | | | | gallon milk jug. Soak to remove any labels. Paint |
| trick-or-treaters?A fun craft is something that can | | | | orange. Once dry, paint or stick on eyes nose and |
| keep you occupied for hours on end especially if you | | | | mouth resembling a Jack O'Lantern. Use fluorescent |
| enjoy it. Here are some ideas that will hopefully set | | | | paint for a nice effect. The jug can be kept for future |
| you on your way in preparation for your next | | | | reuse.Using six pipe cleaners, you can make your own |
| Halloween...Halloween Crafts Part 1:If you live in a | | | | skeleton. Bend one pipe cleaner into two for the |
| house that has a wood-burning fireplace, then chances | | | | backbone. Twist another around the bottom of the |
| are that you have access to tree stumps or large | | | | backbone to make into the legs. Do the same for the |
| blocks of wood. These are great for making stands | | | | arms. Join two pipe cleaners and twist them around |
| for your Jack O'Lanterns. You could use a chisel to | | | | the backbone leaving some space forming a ribcage. |
| slightly hollow out the middle of the stump so that the | | | | Twist the last pipe cleaner for a head and glue on |
| lantern can sit stably or simply use some Blu-Tack or | | | | some eyes. Hang with a rubber band for a bouncing |
| Velcro.Get some small or mini pumpkins and hollow | | | | effect. Your kids will love making halloween crafts with |
| them out to use as candle holders. If open flames are | | | | pipe cleaners. But be careful when cutting and keep |
| out of the question, you can put glow sticks instead of | | | | them out of their mouth.Using glue and food coloring, |
| candles for a different effect. You can carve, draw or | | | | you can make a see through painting. Paint a |
| paint faces on the pumpkins too. Instead of pumpkins, | | | | Halloween image onto a piece of plastic wrap. Before |
| you could use apples as well. Ensure that you choose | | | | the mixture dries, put another piece of plastic wrap on. |
| apples that sit well and flat or cut off the bottom to | | | | Cut it out and hang it in front of a light source for a |
| make a flat surface. Remove the stem and cut | | | | see through effect. You could also frame the plastic |
| around it deep enough for the candle. It is best to use | | | | pictures using wood or cardboard if you want them to |
| taper candles for a better fit.Get a large pumpkin and | | | | be longer lasting.Halloween Crafts Part 3. The Real |
| hollow it out to use as a salad bowl or to serve fresh | | | | Scary Stuff...Make some hand printed spiders. Apply |
| vegetables. Cut off the top, hollow and clean it out and | | | | black paint to your palm and 4 fingers leaving out the |
| let it dry in the sun. You could carve a jagged edge | | | | thumb. Place palm onto a piece of paper. Turn the |
| design on the top. Do the same with some smaller or | | | | paper 180 degrees and print again making sure the |
| mini pumpkins to use for dips or salad dressings.Make | | | | palm overlaps. Add some wiggly eyes using either |
| a scarecrow in your front yard. You need two pieces | | | | paint or sticks. This is suitable for even 2 or 3 year |
| of wood, one put into the ground and the other nailed | | | | olds.Make your own blood. It is less expensive than |
| across for the arms. Use old jeans and a shirt and | | | | buying ready made blood from the Halloween shops. |
| stuff them with newspaper. Add some straw for | | | | It's not difficult; all you need is Karo syrup and food |
| effect. You can use a plastic pumpkin for the head | | | | coloring. While you're at it, why not make some slime |
| and draw a face on it. This makes a great Halloween | | | | using glue, water and borax powder. This is an |
| craft for the whole family.Tie glow sticks to helium | | | | advanced Hallween craft, so take your time and be |
| balloons and let them float around the house. Ensure | | | | careful.Using apples, you can make dried, shrunken |
| that some string extends below so that people can | | | | heads. Peel the apples and coat with a mixture of |
| easily reach them if they get stuck somewhere or | | | | lemon juice and salt to prevent browning. Carve out a |
| simply to play with them.Use publicly available | | | | face of eyes, nose and mouth. Do not worry about |
| Halloween fonts on your computer to make banners | | | | the finer details as they will probably be lost when the |
| or invitations for your party. It's a fast, easy Halloween | | | | apple dries. You can use whole cloves for the eyes |
| craft you can use instantly to enhance your party | | | | and rice grains for the teeth. Let the apples sit out in a |
| theme. Print them onto inkjet iron-on transfer paper | | | | warm place for about 2 weeks. If you don't have 2 |
| and put them onto your favourite t-shirt or Halloween | | | | weeks, you can speed up the drying by putting them |
| outfit.Halloween Crafts Part 2. OK, Now We Are | | | | into an oven on the lowest temperature for about 45 |
| Getting Scary...A visit to your local hardware store for | | | | minutes and then to dry out naturally for the next 2 |
| some basic items and you could make your own | | | | days or so. Once dried, they shrink and deform into |
| tombstones transforming your garden into an instant | | | | weird and scary looking faces.Says Angie Maroevich, |
| graveyard. Paint them grey to resemble stone. Do not | | | | "You don't have to spend a fortune on commercial |
| worry about the details as it will be dark, but do put on | | | | Halloween supplies to have a great party. There are |
| some exciting or scary wordings. By the way, your | | | | many inexpensive alternatives laying around the house |
| local hardware store is loaded with Halloween craft | | | | or at your local store you can use to create a |
| ideas.Going trick or treating? Why not make a special | | | | Halloween theme that will impress all your friends. |