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Halloween Tips
Through the cold nights of fall and winter, luminaria are beautiful lining walkways, garden paths and sitting on porches -- particularly on Halloween.
You can make reusable luminaria to decorate your porch, stairs and walkways -- not from paper bags, but from aluminum and tin cans plus other things you have around the house. It's easy and fun (but children shouldn't partake in this project without adult supervision).
Here are the materials you'll need:
Clean aluminum cans in various sizes
Simple fall and winter outlines (like cats, jack-o-lantern faces, leaves, stars, bells and trees from coloring books, magazines or your simple sketches)
8.5-by-11-inch paper
Black marker
Hand towel
Nail punch (or very large nail)
Hammer
Yellow and black spray paints
Sand
Votive candles
With a pen, trace your design onto paper, one per sheet of paper. Fill cans with water and then freeze until solid.
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Halloween How To - Fun Projects
By Steven James
It's that house - the one all the kids talk about. The one all the adults envy. The house that truly embodies Halloween. It has the décor, the music and of course the best candy. Every neighborhood has at least one. And this year your home can be that house. Here are but just of few of my favorite ideas.
The Great Pumpkin:
Pumpkins are the key to any Halloween celebration. You can carve, paint and even drill pumpkins, but this year why not add gourds to the mix. The "Crown of Thorns" gourd screams Halloween with its thorn-like protrusions. They can be a bit tricky to find, but check your farmer's market or specialty food retailers. With a coat of white paint they can take on the look of whimsical ghosts. Laid on their side, they take on a spookier appearance. Smaller than most pumpkins, they're a bit tricky to carve, but it can be done.
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Halloween & Hounds
By Jennifer Shryock
Halloween is "fright night" for humans not dogs. Screaming, running, spooky children in masks make many dogs uncomfortable, nervous and frightened.
Halloween costumes are fun and are meant to disguise our normal appearance. Dogs do not understand this change in appearance and may become frightened. Costumes that change the way a person walks, stands, or their general appearance may cause a dog to react different then usual even with those they know.
Keep in mind that children on Halloween night are excited and doing their best to be scary. This is not a fair or safe situation to put even the best of dogs in. Even the normally terrific tolerant family dog can find this night hard to handle.
Along with costumes being frightening to a dog there are some that may become interesting too. Swords, tails and dangling things may be fun for an excited dog to chase and toddlers certainly won't appreciate that.
Every child and every costume is a new opportunity for different reactions from the same dog.
I recommend setting up your dog with their own private Halloween bash in a safe quiet spot with a yummy treat of their own. Here are some tips to help make this safe haven most comfortable.
1. Stuff a food dispensing toy with yummy mush and freeze it until it is "Halloween" time.
2. Use a fan or radio for white noise. Something consistent is best.
3. Be sure the blinds are down or the dog is not watching kids coming and going by the window. This will only frustrate him and allow him to practice barking and carrying on at the window.
Chocolate is toxic to dogs. Put candy in a safe spot.
Many dogs are stolen, poisoned or injured by Halloween pranks. Keep your dog safe and sound inside your home.
Be safe and aware and have fun!
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1 bag small candy bars
40 vanilla wafers
1- 16 oz tub vanilla frosting tinted orange
1 Bag of M&M's or cake decoration candies.
1 bag small pretzel sticks.
Take a bag of the small size candy bars. Roughly chop them in half. Put in microwavable bowl and warm just until candy will flatten between fingers. (Be careful to not over heat and burn your fingers.) Place between two vanilla wafers and lightly press wafers together. Take six small pretzel sticks and press into candy, three on each side for legs. Frost top vanilla wafer. Use M&M's or cake candy decoraions for eyes. (You can just mix small amount of chocolate in the vanilla frosting to use for eyes.) To make M&M's or cake candies stick well, dab bottoms with small amount of extra icing.
Gladys Hill
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A cute inexpensive Halloween costume is to get two large pieces of plastic, large enough to cover your body front and back (furniture stores are great places to get this) or use a large clear garbage bag. Tape the bottom and side edges together, but leave openings for your arms and legs. Leave the top open.Blow up assorted colors of balloons and fill the bag. Step into the bag, putting your legs and arms through the openings, then tape top edges together but leave your head out. You are a bag of jelly beans!!
By Mel
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Last minute Halloween costume: Use a marker to write on an old t-shirt. I AM A _________(cat, pumpkin, puppy... If you can, draw a stick figure on the back, and a few whiskers on the child's face. Call it minimalist!
By Linda
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Pumpkin Plants for Halloween Treats
I'm giving out tiny pots of planted pumpkin seeds this Halloween.
Last year, I saved the seeds from pumpkins when making jack-o-lanterns and dried them. We roasted and ate some, planted others in our vegetable garden and saved the rest.
You can buy either the biodegradable planter containers or just cute little pots at the collar store, fill with earth, push in a seed, water and cover with plastic. Then you've got your unique "treat" for trick-or-treating this year. The child can transplant the seedling, and watch his or her very own pumpkin grow big and round!
By Stephanie Olsen
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