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