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