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Halloween Decorations: Boo To You, And
Pumpkins Too!
By Gail Leino
It seems as if everyone is getting more and more interested in
decorating for every holiday, and Halloween is one of my favorites!
Whether you choose to go the spooky route, or the friendly route,
Halloween decorating is fun for everyone. Most Halloween decorations are
made the day before Halloween, and put out for just one night, so you
probably want to decorate in a manner to pack the biggest boo for the
buck.
Buy inexpensive styrofoam, gray paint (or granite paint, if you
don’t mind the extra cost) and black markers. Cut various sizes and
types of tomb stones, pile up hay to resemble grave mounds, for
especially spooky Halloween decorations, fill a surgical glove with
gelatin (mixed in the jigglers recipe on the back of the gelatin box)
tie it off securely, and put it a shirt sleeve filled with hay around a
stick that can be stuck into one of the grave mounds, as if someone is
trying to escape the grave. The gelatin will wiggle at the slightest
movement. For added fright factors, splash a little fake blood around.
String a fake spider web, sprinkled with spiders, buy dry ice for an
ultra spooky fog, play ghostly tunes, and serve candy hands from a
witch’s pot.
Recipe for Candy Hands:
Surgical gloves
Small bags of candy corn
Popcorn
Stuff the fingers with popcorn, then fill the hand with small
packages of candy corn. Tie off at the ends, and ‘hand’ them out to
the trick or treaters in your neighborhood.
If you prefer friendly Halloween decorations instead of ghoulish
ones, play Casper the friendly ghost, instead of fiendishly frightening
howls, and decorate with smiling ghosts made by covering helium filled,
white balloons, tied off with a long piece of clear fishing line, and
covered with white garbage bags. Paint on happy faces, and tying the
ghosts with the other end of the fishing line, so they appear to fly
with even the slightest breeze. Halloween “totem pole” decorations
can be made by pushing pumpkins onto a length of one inch pipe, and
drawing on happy faces, then pushing the pipe into the ground.
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About the author:
Mrs. Party... Gail Leino is the internet's leading
authority on selecting the best possible party
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using proper etiquette and manners while also teaching
organizational skills and fun facts. The Party Supplies Hut
has a huge selection of free party games, coloring pages, word
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