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Kids always have fun making crafts, especially holiday-themed crafts. Here are some fun Halloween craft ideas for your kids to make this year.

1. Trick-or-Treat bucket

Supplies: ice cream bucket, construction paper, markers, crayons, glue, glitter (any craft supplies)

Directions: Use construction paper to draw ghosts, pumpkins, scarecrows, etc. Cut out your decorations and glue them to the outside of an ice cream bucket.

2. Trick-or-Treat goody bags

Supplies: small brown paper bags, Halloween stickers, markers, treats (candy, pencils, erasers, bubblegum, etc.)

Directions: Decorate paper bags in Halloween themes using your art supplies. Put treats inside bags. Fold the top of the bag down and tape shut with a Halloween sticker.

3. Tiny pumpkins

Supplies: acorns, orange paint, and green paint

Directions: Lay acorns on a sheet of newspaper. Paint the bottom of the acorns with orange paint. After the orange paint dries, paint the top of the acorns green (for the stem of the pumpkin). Allow to dry thoroughly.

4. Spooky Spiders

Supplies: black construction paper, cotton balls or cotton stuffing, black pipe cleaners, small bowl or saucer, and a stapler

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Ah, the 80s.  What a time that was.  If you have a son or daughter or who wishes to recreate that time in the form of a Halloween costume, here are some suggestions.

The items needed are make-up, make-up, and more make-up.  In addition, jeans with holes in the knees, a funky shirt, some stick-on tattoos, boots, hair gel, and thick black watches or bands for the wrists.  

Obviously, it’s all about the make-up and hair.  The clothes are the accessories in this case.  However, the shirt worn should reflect the 80s.  A punk rock band shirt or perhaps you can make really fantastic punk shirt using your creative talents, a white shirt and drawing logos from that time, or quotes and terms used during that period.

Let’s begin with the make-up.  Heavy eye-liner, worn on the eye-lids and under the eyes, red lipstick, eye shadow; the more colorful the better, mascara, and thick eyebrows just about cover the facial part of this costume.

For the hair, there are two ways to set about making a punk hairstyle.  Either purchase a pink or blue punk wig or use hair gel to spike the hair.  The hair can also be styled into the Mohawk or the Tina Turner look.  You can even spray on some color to the tips of the spiked hair as well.

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Kids love Halloween because this is the only time they really get to enjoy sweets.  Traditionally, treats for Halloween consisted of store bought candy corns, and other assorted Halloween favorites.  Dunking for apples was a favorite in our day.  Today, there are more creative ideas available than ever before.

Baking is a tradition on Halloween, and aside from the cookies and cupcakes, there are other recipes which can be used to make the occasion even more special.

Instead of regular cookies how about ghost cookies?  Using your favorite cookie recipe, you can shape the cookies into little ghosts. Your kids can decorate them with different color icing, or use M&M’s right after they are taken out of the oven.

Here is a great recipe for brownies shaped into ghosts.  Make the brownies as you normally would, then before they cool, cut a ghost shape using a paring knife.  Then melt white chocolate and using a piping bag, make the outline of the ghost on the brownie.  After it has cooled you can pipe in the eyes and mouths, using any color frosting you choose.

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You know what’s so great about dressing up for Halloween?  You can be just about anyone you want to be.  Dressing up as a little old lady or little old man are no exceptions.  These costumes are so easy to make.  You just need the help of your parents to accessorize the look.

To dress up as a little old lady, one can utilize an old house dress, a pair of heavy knee-hi stockings, a white wig, glasses, sneakers, a really old-fashioned pocket book, and bobby pins.

Shorten the house dress to fit just below the knee.  Then put on the knee-hi stockings and roll them down a bit.   Sneakers or old shoes would be fine.  If you can find a white wig, it would be perfect.  If not, you can make the child’s hair gray using flour.  The pocket book is perfect for show.  The bobby pins are wonderful as you can make pin curls on your child’s head.  If you have an old hat, add that to the mix as well.  Finally, the eye glasses and voila, a little old lady has been made.

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Ingredients:

6 Granny Smith apples
6 wooden sticks
1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Extra chips for decorating

Instructions:

Insert wooden sticks 3/4 of the way into the stem end of each apple.

Combine caramels and water in a saucepan over low heat.  Stir often to get a smooth caramel mixture.  Dip apples into caramel.  Place standing up on a sheet of foil or a cookie sheet for easy decorating and chilling.  Sprinkle with the coarse salt and place in the fridge.

Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe dish.  This is easiest if you microwave for 30-40 seconds, stir, and repeat until you have a whole bowl of smooth creamy melted chocolate.  Drizzle melted chocolate over the apples.  Sprinkle with the extra chocolate chips.  Return to refrigerator until ready to eat.

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Nothing exemplifies Halloween more than a ghost costume.  It is probably the easiest to make and can be as simple or complex as you wish.  Let’s take a look at two ideas for a ghost costume for Halloween.

Traditionally, one would cut out two holes in a white sheet, for the eyes, color the outer circle of the eyes black, and just wear it as is.  However, this Casper the Friendly Ghost type costume would be a bit of a problem if the sheet fell off and the child couldn’t see where he or she was going.  So, here is a suggestion.

Take a white sheet and cut a large enough hole so it can fit over the child’s head.  Ensure that the bottom of the sheet is short enough so the child doesn’t trip over it.  Since October is a cool month, wearing white pants and a white turtleneck top would be recommended.  Oh, don’t forget white shoes or sneakers.  Now that the costume itself is ready to go, here comes the fun part.

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Ingredients:

1/4 cup mayonnaise
3/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
2 teaspoons tarragon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/8 teaspoon thyme
2 teaspoons chili sauce
1 celery stick, chopped

Instructions:

Combine ingredients and chill for at least one hour before serving.  Perfect in the center of your veggie tray.  In addition to veggies, use Halloween shaped cookie cutters to cut out mini finger sandwiches, the dip can also be used as a spread on those, yummy!  For super festivity on the serving table scoop the dip into a hollowed out mini pumpkin.

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Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef (or turkey)
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
8 ounces tomato sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 teaspoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 hamburger buns, split
American cheese slices

Instructions:

Brown ground beef (or turkey) and drain off fat.  Add garlic and onion and cook until tender.  Stir in pumpkin, tomato sauce, brown sugar, mustard, chili powder and salt.  Bring up to boiling point.  Reduce heat simmer for 10 -15 minutes.  Spoon mixture onto buns and top with cheese, place under broiler for a few minutes to melt the cheese watching so it doesn’t burn.  Optionally you can cut the cheese slices into jack-o-lantern face shapes before topping and melting then serve without a bun top.

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Getting ready for a howling Halloween party this year? Spruce up your party this year with some icky, but yummy party food. Here are some fun food ideas for your ghostly Halloween party:

Snot cubes

Refrigerate yellow and green Jello (any flavors) in ice cube trays. Serve chilled.

Worms in snot

Make snot cubes, as directed above, out of Jello. Insert gummy worms in each cube of Jello then refrigerate. Serve chilled.

Bad apples

Using a small, sharp knife cut a small, round hole in one side of the top of an apple. Insert a gummy worm inside the hole. Create display of “bad apples” in a wooden bucket.

Monster Mash

In a large bowl, combine the following ingredients:

* 10 cups popcorn
* 1 pound plain M&M’s
* 1-14 oz. jar dry roasted peanuts
* 1 cup raisins (optional)
* 1 cup Reece’s pieces (found in baking isle by chocolate chips)

Bowl of Brains

Scramble several eggs. To get the gray brain color, mix in green, red, and blue food coloring as you beat the eggs before cooking them.

Buggy Ice Cubes

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