White Formula for Face Painting

• 2 ts White shortening
• 5 ts Cornstarch
• 1 ts White flour
• 3-4 drops glycerin
• Food color
• 2-1/2 tsp Cocoa*

*For brown beards, or caveman styles.
Using a rubber spatula, blend the shortening, cornstarch, and flour on a plate to form a smooth paste.

Add 3 or 4 drops of glycerin for a creamy consistency. Add any color of food coloring.

Spooky Halloween Hands

Take two plastic latex gloves and fill with water (don't fill so much that the fingers won't move). Tie ends closed tightly. Lay the gloves on a cookie sheet and freeze solid.

After the gloves are frozen, remove ice from the plastic gloves (cut the gloves off).

Add the hands to red punch.

If using a light colored punch, just fill the gloves with red koolaid (don't add sugar or the koolaid won't freeze properly) instead of plain water.

The following was sibmitted by a visitor:

Put candy corn at the tip of the gloves and then fill with popcorn.

Halloween Sidewalk Chalk

2 parts Plaster of Paris
1 part Water
Colored Tempra Paint or Food Coloring

Mix Plaster of Paris with water. Mix in desired food color.

Pour into toilet paper tubes.

Let dry thoroughly (this may take a few days).

Remove the chalk from the tubes and give to your favorite artist to draw halloween pictures on the sidewalk.

Tombstone Halloween Cake

Bake a chocolate cake and frost with chocolate frosting.

Place a plastic skeletion on the top of the cake. Place a bunch of gummy worms in and around the skeleton.

Place a hershey bar at the head of the skeletion for a tombstone.

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Spooky Halloween Apples

Peel some apples but don't core them.

Have an adult carve indentations for the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, etc. using a sharp knife.

Place the apples on a baking sheet and put them in a warm place (on a window sill in the sun, near a heater, etc..) until the apples become shriveled and dried

Paste googly eyes, wool for the hair, beads for earrings, etc. to the dried apple heads. Use your imagination and create some spooky heads for halloween.

 

Halloween Table Cloth

• White paper table cloth
• Tempera acrylic paint
• Stickers
• Halloween pictures

Take a white paper tablecloth and paint on halloween ghosts, pumpkins, black cats, etc.

Stick on Halloween stickers or glue on pictures related to halloween..

Halloween Spider

• Black yarn
• Small square of cardboard
• Black pipe cleaners
• Googly eyes
• Glue

Wind the black yarn around the small square of cardboard until it's heavily covered;. hold it together by tying a small piece of yarn to the center. Remove the cardboard.

Insert three pipe cleaners into the knotted centre and bend to form the legs. Glue on the goggly eyes.

Use black thread to suspend the spider.

Halloween Chain

• Orange construction paper
• Black construction paper

Cut orange and black strips of paper, 4" long long and 1/2" wide.

Form a circle with the black strip and glue or staple the ends together.

Take an orange strip and loop it through first black circle. Glue or staple the ends together.

Continue on in this way, alternating between black and orange strips until the chain is as long as you'd like it.

Hang the chain in a doorway, in the window, or anywhere else you can think of.

You can even make a necklace by cutting the strips into smaller pieces.

 

Totally Gross Dessert

Prepare orange jello according to package directions.

When jello is partially hardened, add a few drops of green food coloring and gently stir it in.

Add a dollop of of black whipped cream to the top of the jello (add black food coloring to the cream before whipping).

Spooky Halloween Balloons

Blow up black or orange balloons and draw scary faces on them with an orange or black marker. Hang them in windows or in doorways.

OR

Cover helium balloons with old tattered sheets with scary faces painted on them.

Popcorn Hands

Take white plastic gloves and fill them with popcorn. Tie at the hand with orange and black ribbons, curl ends and place a spider ring on one of the fingers and use for party favors or decorations.

Submitted by Cheryl in Ramona.

Newt Eyes

Tissue (pink or white)
Water
Thread (optional)
Paints or felt tips
Somewhere warm

Take some squares of tissue (toilet type) and dip them into the water.

Roll them into a ball then leave them to dry.

When they're hard (or dry) paint or draw in red veins, and any color for the eyes.

If you want to hang them up before you dry them properly get out as much water as you can then push a hole in with your nail. Let it dry and thread in some string.

Submitted by Jemma Gates

 

Halloween Cookie Jars

Paint clay pots black and let dry.

Glue orange rickrack around top edges.and write guests names with white paint.

For ghosts you will need peanut shaped sandwich cookies, white frosting, and black gel icing.

To make ghost, frost one side of cookie. Add eyes and mouth with gel icing.

Fill pots with candy corn and ghosts.  :)
 
Submitted by Kristine Gints

Halloween Ghost Suckers

Get some tootsie pop suckers and a box of tissues. Place one tissue over the sucker (like a sheet) and then tie at the base of the sucker with black or orange yarn.

Get a black marker and make a face like this O O (but fill in the circles).

Submitted by Crystal

 

Spooky Halloween Ice Cubes

Put gummy worms in water in ice tray for spooky cubes to put in drinks or punch bowl..

Submitted by Kelly from VA.

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