Lollipop Ghosts
Cover lollipops with facial tissue to resemble a ghost.
Tie it at the bottom with white ribbon or string.
Use a black marker to draw in the eyes.
Fake Snot
1/2 c Water
3 pk Unflavored gelatin
Light corn syrup*
Heat the water until it just starts to boil. Remove from heat.Sprinkle in the gelatin. Let it soften a few minutes, and stir with a fork.
*Add enough corn syrup to make 1 cup of thick glop.
Stir with the fork and lift out the long strands of gunk. If it thickens too much, add more water.
Halloween Chain
You need some orange and black construction paper.
Cut orange and black strips of paper, three to four inches long and one-half inch wide.
Form a circle with an orange strip and glue or staple the ends together.
Next take a black strip and loop it through first circle, again glueing or stapling ends.
Do the same thing again but use an orange strip this time.
Continue doing the same over and over (using alternating colors) until the chain is as long as you'd like it.
Hang on walls, in windows, on doors, whereever you'd like.
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Edible Halloween Honey Dough
1 c Powdered milk
1/2 c Creamy peanut butter
1/2 c HoneyMix the powdered milk, peanut butter, and honey together well.
Butter the childs hands, and have them shape dough into pumpkins, ghosts, witches, black cats, etc. When they're finished playing they can eat their creations.
Note: This dough is somewhat sticky, so a child who gets frustrated easily may need the parent to help.
Pom Pom Spider
Black yarn
Small square of cardboard
Black pipe cleaners
Googly eyes or red construction paper
Glue
Wind yard around and around cardboard square until heavily covered.Using a small piece of yarn tie securely at the centre, cut edges and remove the cardboard.
Insert three pipe cleaners into the knotted centre and bend to form the spider's legs.
Glue on goggly eyes or cut out circles from red construction paper.
Hang the spider using light-colored thread. that way it looks like the spider is just hanging in mid-air.
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Halloween Wiggly Worms
Make grape jello except use about half the amount of liquid to make it extra thick.
When the jello has set, cut it into long worm shapes and let the kids munch on them.
Setting the Table for Halloween
Tablecloth: Orange and/or black OR black with white checked
Napkins: Orange or Black
Dinnerware: Black/ or Orange
Flatware: Gold
Centrepiece: Jack O' Lantern or a pile of very small pumpkins or oranges (use magic marker to draw faces.
Halloween Pumpkins
Cut orange construction paper into small circles and green construction paper into small pieces.
Have the kids draw large circles on white construction paper.
Have the children glue the orange paper into the circles. Then have them add the green paper for the pumpkin stems. They can now draw a funny face on the pumpkins to create their own jack-o-lanterns.
Halloween Makeup
3 T Cornstarch
1 T Flour
3/4 c light corn syrup
1/4 c water
Facial tissues
Cotton balls or batting and
Puffed Wheat cereal for special
effects
1 Sm mixing bowl
4 paper cups
Cotton swabs or small brushIn bowl, mix cornstarch and flour. Gradually stir in corn syrup and the water until smooth.
This amount will make up 4 children's faces.
Divide mixture between 4 paper cups. Color 3 batches with food colors of your choice (1/2 teaspoon liquid or 1/4 teaspoon paste for each batch). Leave 1 batch untinted.
For additional colors, prepare more makeup.
Separate tissues into single layers; tear lengthwise into 2-inch wide strips. Using swabs or brush, paint generous coat of untinted mixture on forehead; place strip of tissue over area; pat firmly with fingertips. Brush on more of same mixture to cover any dry spots on tissue. Continue painting rest of face, one area at a time, and covering it with tissue. Don't paint eyelids or around eyes. Let dry about 15 minutes; time depends on temperature and humidity.
Stir colored batches before using. Paint on 1 color at a time as desired. Let dry slightly before using another color if you want them to blend, or let dry completely if you don't. To speed process, use hair dryer on air setting.
For deeper, smoother, candy-color effect, use several coats of same color (allow to dry slightly between coats).
To build up eyebrows, nose, or chin (or to make a beard):
Apply cotton to damp, untinted mixture. Paint with more of the same. Cover with tissue and paint desired color.For Ghoulish Effect:
Dust made-up face with flour.For Warts:
Stick on Puffed Wheat cereal with untinted mixture, then coat with layers of mixture-soaked tissue. Paint desired color.To Remove the Makeup:
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Jack-o-Lanterns
Carving a Pumpkin (kids don't do this without adult supervision)Choose an unbruised pumpkin that's smooth and evenly colored. Make sure the pumpkin has a flat bottom so it sits upright.
Using a thin black felt pen draw the lid to be cut out of your pumpkin. Make the lid a hexagon shape (six-sided). Be sure the hole is going to be large enough to allow the pumpkin ton be cleaned out easily.
Using an exacto knife or a small saw, cut along the lines being sure to angle the blade towards the center of the pumpkin to create a ledge that will support the lid.
Clean out all the pulp and seeds. Scrape the inner walls clean.
If you have an idea of how you'd like your pumpkin to look, go for it. If not, find a stencil with the desired pattern and tape the stencil to the pumpkin.
Cut or saw out the design. Click here for Carving Tips .
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