EWWWWW Eyeballs

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Now these are great to make for an upcoming Halloween party.  And I am sure you will have tons of people asking you for the recipe for next year.

What you need:

3oz lemon gelatin
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup mini marshmallows
1 cup  pineapple juice
1 8oz package cream cheese
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
1 cup mayonnaise

What to do:

Dissolve lemon gelatin in cup water in a double boiler.

Add in mini marshmallows and stir until they are all melted.

Remove from heat and add pineapple juice and cream cheese.

Beat together until smooth.

Next fold in whipped cream and Mayonnaise.

Allow to cool until firm. Using melon baller scoop up to make round balls.

Decorate them suing food coloring and a clean food paintbrush.

Now you have some gross ewwww eyeballs for your Halloween party.

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Easy Halloween crafts for kids

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Kids love making crafts, so take the time to look around and find some easy Halloween crafts for kids.  Crafting does not have to be difficult, and you can make easy Halloween crafts for kids with a little imagination, creativity, and some common household items.  There is nothing more fun for kids than to decorate your home with Halloween decorations that they have made themselves.  They will feel pride in what they have created and have fun doing it.  Here are a couple easy Halloween crafts for kids that you may want to try.

We LOVE fun foam that can be purchased at craft stores or department stores.  Buy several sheets in colors of orange, black, green, and white.  Cut out some ovals and circles from various colors.  Look on the Internet for Halloween images that you can print to your personal printer.  Try to find witches, bats, skeletons, and black cats.  You may have to reduce these images to fit onto your base.  If you are especially good at drawing, you can even try to draw your own!  Cut these images out of contrasting fun foam colors and glue onto the shapes you have cut out.  Punch a hole in the top, draw a string through the hole and then hang these fun ornaments anywhere you can think of!

Easy Halloween crafts for kids can even be crafts that are adapted from more difficult crafts.  Want to have scary ghosts hanging from your trees?  Take an ordinary plastic bag you get from the grocery store and cut off the handles.  Place a Styrofoam ball in the top for the head and secure with a rubber band.  Then shred the bottom into strips and poke a hole above the head to insert a string for hanging.  Don’t forget to draw on a scary face!  For extra fun, attach a bell or two to the bottom of the strips so you can hear your ghost “singing” in the wind.

Finally, one of the most easy Halloween crafts for kids might be the most fun.  Buy a few dark colored candles – black preferably – and provide your child with various trinkets like sequins, candy corn, fun foam shapes, or whatever you can think of.  Have them glue these trinkets on the outside of the candle and you have a great Halloween decoration for your home!

Easy Halloween crafts for kids are great ways to get kids interested in crafts and instill a sense of pride as visitors marvel over your great decorations.  They can proudly say, “I made that!”

Pumpkin Carving the Easy Way

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With Halloween right around the corner it is time to start doing some pumpkin carving.  By now there are pumpkins for sale on every corner and pumpkin patches are in full swing.  There will be a thousands of pumpkins carved this year for either your front porch or maybe even a contest.  Below I have included some great ideas to make carving a pumpkin more fun and less messy.

First you need to decide on the size of the pumpkin compaired to the design you want to do on the pumpkin.  Make sure that your pumpkin is big enough for your design, but don’t get a huge pumpkin for a little design.  Complex scenes normally work better on short fat pumpkins while witches on broom sticks need to be on tall thin pumpkins.

You want to draw the design on a piece of tracing paper.  If you use tracing paper it will make it easier for you to see when it is time to tranfer your design onto the pumpkin.  You want to use an x-acto knife or a sharp knife. You want to score the pumpkin through the tracing paper. By scoring the pumpkin you are making carving much easier. And easy is what we are trying for.

Alot of times you want to maybe just pick up a pumpking carving kit.  A pumpkin carving kit makes the job that much easier. Pumpkin carving kits are great for slicing through the soft shell of the pumpkin, but make it very friendly for our hands and fingers.  And remember when using any type of tool aways cut or move away from the body.

There are also electric carving tools made for carving pumpkins. The simpler the process the more fun it is going to be.  But make sure you don’t let the tool get away from you or you will destroy your pumpkin.

Pumpkin carving is something that takes place every fall.  Some towns hold a fall festival and will give prizes for the best carved pumpkin. And just because you are not an artist you could still win a prize for most original or funniest looking.

So this year take the task out of pumpkin carving and have a little fun.  Make it as simple of a job as possible. And have fun.  Create something fun and exicting and just remember to be safe this Halloween.

Free and easy toddler Halloween crafts

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A lot of people think that you can’t teach your toddler how to craft because they are so young, but there are all sorts of free and easy toddler Halloween crafts that you and your little one can do together.  You will be teaching your child about all sorts of things when you take the time to craft together.  Plus, you are spending time together which is irreplaceable when it comes to your child’s well-being.  We were able to find all kinds of free and easy toddler Halloween crafts.  Here are a couple you may want to try.

You can make a cute bat from your child’s handprint for a fun and cute keepsake.  First, get a paper plate and pour in washable black craft paint.  Put your child’s hand in the paint making sure to fully cover the whole hand.  On a piece of construction paper or another paper plate, press your child’s hand onto one side with fingers splayed.  Turn the paper around, re-coat the child’s hand and press the hand to the paper again with the heels of the hand matching up.  Use white paint to make eyes or buy some googly eyes and glue down.  Punch a hole in the top and put a string through to hang.

Finally, you can make cute Halloween ornaments from fun foam – our favorite craft supply that we feel everyone should have on hand!  Get a few pieces of fun foam in typical Halloween colors – orange, black, white, and green.  Draw circles and ovals onto the fun foam and let your toddler practice his or her cutting skills cutting out the shapes with safety scissors, of course!  While he or she is doing that, you can cut out shapes from the rest of the fun foam.  You can get patterns online for scary cats, witches, ghosts, bats, and much more.  Cut out several different ones and then let your toddler glue the figures onto the shapes.  Punch a hole in the top and put a string through so you can hang your toddler’s Halloween ornaments all over the house!

Free and easy toddler Halloween crafts can be found in many places on the Internet.  There are many web sites dedicated to crafts that are easy for children of all ages, so you will have a lot of different and fun projects to choose from.  Remember when you are looking for free and easy toddler Halloween crafts for you and your child to make that the important thing is spending time with your child – that is what counts in the long run!

What Are The Top Halloween Costumes For 2008?

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Each Halloween you are given the opportunity to show your creativity with your Halloween costume ideas. The possibilities are nearly limitless once your creative juices start to flow. Halloween costumes can be grouped into several sub categories. This article includes a few suggestions to help you get your creative juices flowing.
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Halloween Crafts and Goodies.

Halloween! There is so much do to and tons of fun to have on Halloween. Oh how our children love Halloween. But as crafty moms we can also enjoy Halloween. There are so many crafts we can do. So I started looking around for crafts that we could all make for Halloween. There are so many different things you could make. A great site I found that has tons of great Halloween crafts is Family Fun. Family fun has about everything you can think of to do for Halloween from crafts, to costumes, to print-ables, to Pumpkin carving.

These Cute little crafts are called Spirit Jugs.

I never thought of doing something like this with milk jugs but I think I will be putting these out front

of our house.

One of my favorite Halloween crafts to make is these cute little candy corn people .

They are simple to make and are great to give out to your favorite trick-or-treaters.

I also fill them with candy corn but you could fill them with about what ever you wanted to fill

them with.

Hairy Daddy Long Legs would Be a great Cupcake for your kids to take to school.

This little guy is really cute and the instructions on him seem rather easy.

Kids seem to really love cupcakes more when they are all dress up.

Or if you want to get really creative you could always make these Mini Monster Cupcakes

What Halloween crafts are you working on right now? Please share you Halloween crafts. Favorite Halloween craft site. And anything else that you think we would all love to read or try.