Homemade Halloween Trick Or Treat Bags - How to Make Your Own Halloween Treat Bags

Homemade Halloween Trick Or Treat Bags - How to Make Your Own Halloween Treat Bags

Kids love to dress up, so it's no wonder they love Halloween so much. And getting lots of free candy is the icing on the cake. Whether they go door to door or attend a Halloween party, they come home with bags full of sweet treats.

For adults (as well as some kids), handing out candy is the highlight of their Halloween. They enjoy seeing all of the kids in costume and adding to their candy stash. If they make treat bags ahead of time, it makes handing out candy quicker and easier.

You can buy Halloween treat bags at most grocery and discount stores. But wouldn't you rather give your trick-or-treaters something original? Here are some ideas for making your own Halloween treat bags.

* Use paper lunch bags. Have the kids paint pumpkins, ghosts, bats and other Halloween pictures on them. Let the paint dry, and embellish with glitter glue, googly eyes, pom poms and other fun stuff.

* Buy some small gift bags in Halloween colors such as orange, black or even white. Decorate them with Halloween stickers for quick and easy treat bags. Or if you prefer, have the kids cut out Halloween shapes and glue them on.

* Make treat bags out of paper cups. Use plain white regular or cone-shaped cups, and decorate them with glitter and/or paint. Let dry completely. Punch two holes near the rim of the cup, directly across from each other. Thread a gold, silver, orange or black chenille stem through the holes, and twist each end to secure. Bend into an arc shape to form a handle.

* Make haunted house treat holders out of pint-sized milk cartons. Cut off the top of the carton, just below where it folds to make the spout. Cover the outside of the carton with yellow construction paper, and glue into place. Cut a piece of brown construction paper to the same size, wrap it around the carton, but do not glue yet. Draw on doors and windows, remove the paper, and cut each door or window on three sides, forming a flap. Then glue the paper on, and let dry. Add decorations such as jack-o-lanterns, spiders and bats inside the windows and doors. Make a handle out of a chenille stem.

* Make your own bags out of paper. You can find templates online that show you how to cut and fold them. Some even come with Halloween motifs already printed on them.

Creating Halloween treat bags is a great family project. With everyone working together, you can create lots of unique bags in no time. When they're done, fill them with candy for a fun and memorable Halloween treat!

Halloween Slime Recipe - How to Make Yucky Halloween Slime

Here follows a Halloween Slime Recipe that contains borax that you need to be careful with and a safer Halloween Slime Recipe for younger children.

When October rolls around, you can find all kinds of scary and gross stuff in stores. From plastic spiders and hanging bats to fake blood and stick-on scars, it's many a kid's dream come true. And there's even fun stuff for those who scare easily, such as slime.

Slime looks and feels rather disgusting, but it's loads of fun. Kids love to squish it and use it in pretend play. But did you know that's it is easy and fun to make slime at home? It's also much more educational than buying it from the store. Here's how to do it.

BEWARE: Slime made from the Borax recipe should be kept away from children under three years of age, as Borax is toxic in high doses.

What You Need

*Warm water
*White craft glue
*Borax
*Two mixing bowls
*Measuring cups and spoons
*Stirring spoon
*Green food coloring

Instructions

1. Pour ¾ cup of water into one of the mixing bowls.

2. Add 1 cup of white glue to the water. Mix thoroughly.

3. Add a few drops of food coloring, and stir to see how dark it makes the mixture. Repeat until the desired coloring is achieved.

4. Pour 1/3 cup of water into the second bowl. Add 4 teaspoons of Borax and mix thoroughly.

5. Pour the Borax mixture into the glue mixture. Do not mix, just let stand for 1 minute.


Don't have any Borax handy? Here's another simple slime recipe you can try.

What You Need

*Water
*Corn Starch
*Green food coloring
*Mixing bowl
*Measuring cups

Instructions

1. Pour 1 cup of water into the bowl.

2. Add 1 cup of corn starch. Mix together with your hands until gooey and dough-like.

3. If the mixture is not thick enough, add more corn starch. If too thick, add more water. Adjust until desired consistency is reached.

4. Add a few drops of food coloring and mix with hands until evenly colored.

Tips

Green is the trademark slime color, but you can make it in any color you like. Add one or more colors of food coloring to create any shade you like.

Want glitter slime? Just mix in some loose glitter when you add the food coloring.

Store slime in a plastic container with a lid or a zip-top sandwich bag to keep it from drying out.

Cover the work area with newspaper when making slime to prevent messes. It's also a good idea to protect surfaces, furniture and carpet when your child is playing with slime, as it could stain or stick to them.

Halloween Makeup Kits Vampire Kit

Halloween Makeup Kits Vampire Kit

Looking for a scary vampire make-up kit for Halloween? The Halloween makeup Vampire Kit from Star Costumes has been the most popular Halloween vampire makeup for almost 20 years.

It includes instructions and advice on how to change your looks to become a realistic and ghastly looking vampire or vampires with fangs. It features:

* Vampire Foundation
* Four Color Vampire Palette
* Black Pencil
* 0.25oz of stage blood
* Fangs
* Brush and sponge applicators
* and color instructions.

The kit includes make-up to last for about 4 – 6 applications.

Enjoy your next Halloween party with this fantastic vampire makeup kit.

Where to buy: www.starcostumes.com

Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decors

Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decor

Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decors is a book written by Kasey Rogers and Mark Wood, both accomplished and known actors and lovers of throwing fantastic and goulish Halloween parties.

Their book features 50 innovative and stunning Halloween projects, from table decorations, scary sculptures to punch. These projects come with step-by-step instructions and photographs and are straight forward and simple to create. Each project comes with a list of materials needed and a list of contacts for the more difficult materials used.

Examples of the included projects are:

* Creepy Drippy Candles
* Banquet of the Goblin King Centerpiece
* Baby Gremlins
* Banshee Banners
* Red Imp Punch
* Skull Orchard Statute
* The Goblin King
* Harvest of Skulls
* Instant Ancestors
* Brew Some Gruesome Punch Glasses
* Goblin Masques
* Scarecrow Wreath
* and many others

If you enjoy decoration your home with spooky Halloween things, this book offers lots of great projects for the whole family.

Get:Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decor

How To Decorate A Pumpkin Without Carving It - Paint Pumpkin

If you are wondering how to decorate a pumpkin without carving it, you must think about pumpkin painting. Painting a pumpkin is so much safer where small kinds are involved and there is less wastage. After the season your pumpkins can still be used again!

So, the best way to decorate a pumpkin without carving is to paint a pumpkin. Here is a simple example of how to decorate a pumpkin without carving it, but rather by painting it. Get going and paint a pumpkin this Halloween!

If you want to do a face, you will need a few smallish pumpkins, some markers, maybe something to use as hair, plastic eyes that will be in ample supply during Halloween and glue.

All you have to do now is draw a face on your pumpkin, paint pumpkin, any way you would like it to be, glue the eyes and hair on and you have your pumpkin.

This is a really fun and easy way to decorate a pumpkin without carving it. So, paint a pumpkin this Halloween

Now I know, many of us are not all that artistic and coming up with a design may be a problem. That is where a very nifty e-book comes in. It is called…drum roll!!.......... Pumpkin Painting.

Have a look at some of the amazing benefits of this e-book for your Halloween pumpkin painting:

• It has Step-By-Step Photos of Easy but Stunningly Adorable Designs
• The Over 14 Transferable Pumpkin Faces That Are Literally Paint-By-Number takes care of the design even if you are not artistic
• Without any effort you will be able to Create Hundreds of Different Looks and Personalities by Mixing and Matching the Eyes, Noses and Mouths from the Various Designs
• You'll See How Common Household Items Can Bring Your Pumpkins to Life making the whole process all that much cheaper

Your lovely painted pumpkins will provide smiles, joy and laughter for children and adults alike, and the kids can participate in all safety!

So, I think, if you are considering how to decorate a pumpkin without carving it, Pumpkin Painting is the e-book for you! Have a save and fun-filled Halloween with your pumpkins decorated without carving but, rather with pumpkin painting.

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Simple Pumpkin Painting

With each annual visit to the pumpkin patch, teachers, room mothers, scout troop leaders and parents alike often wonder how to make the most of the prize pumpkin that was chosen by a child. 


Forget the messy and dangerous ideas of carving.  Pumpkin Painting is the perfect solution to a creative dilemma!


Painting silly, goofy or scary faces or other designs can be a fun, yet relatively simple activity for children and adults.


Preschool age children can even participate in creating their own designs for their pumpkins.  You certainly can't say that about carving pumpkins!


The easiest design to paint on a pumpkin is a traditional jack-o-lantern face. But here are some other ideas for festive designs:

• Silly or goofy faces
• Favorite cartoon characters
• Fall leaves
• Scarecrow
• Witch
• Princess
• Turkey
• Spider
• Ghosts
• Cats
• Goblin

Painting pumpkins is a very economical craft as most supplies are readily available (you probably already have some of these in your home):

 What You Need:

• Washable markers
• Acrylic craft paints
• Newspaper
• Spray sealer
• Accessories such as raffia, jewelry, hats, etc.

 What You Have To Do:

1. Before beginning, decide what design you are going to paint and trace that design onto a clean pumpkin. 
2. You can freehand the design or select one of the many designs in the ultimate e-guide for pumpkin painting, Easy Pumpkin Painting.
3. Once you or your child has painted their first pumpkin, chances are you’ll want to paint an entire pumpkin family to proudly display at your home.

Pumpkin Painting is an annual family tradition at our house. We hope it will be at yours as well.


Easy Pumpkin Painting is a guide that contains step-by-step instructions and color photographs of exactly how to paint the cutest Halloween pumpkins.  It also contains templates that you can use to paint your first pumpkin in about an hour!  Easy Pumpkin Painting makes painting pumpkins, well, Easy!