Ear Wax Wieners on Cotton Swabs

8 tb Butter or margarine – melted
24 Cocktail franks
1/2 c Mustard
1/2 c Mayonnaise
Toothpicks
Cotton balls

Recipe by: Creepy Cuisine, Lucy Munroe

Melt the butter or margarine in a small pan over low heat, being careful not to burn it. Place the
franks on a broiling pan and carefully brush them with melted butter. Broil the franks until they are evenly browned, turning them 2 or 3 times.

While the franks are cooking, combine the mustard and mayonnaise in a small bowl and set aside. This will be your ear wax.

Arrange the cooked franks on a serving platter. Pierce each frank with a toothpick, then stick a wet cotton ball on the end of each pick. Place the small bowl of ear wax in the middle of the platter, surrounded by franks.

Halloween Craft Projects For Children

Fall means more inside time for the little ones. Naturally, they’re going to need something fun and creative to keep them busy. Help your kids prepare for Halloween by constructing these adorable craft projects! They’re easy and fun to make and the kiddos will love displaying them for the holiday.

Egg Carton Spiders

What you will need:
Cardboard egg carton
Pipe cleaners
Poster paint
Elastic thread
Something to poke small holes

Instructions:
Cut the egg cups out of a cardboard egg carton. Cut pipe cleaners into 3 inch sections. To make each spider, poke four pipe cleaners through each cup sideways. Bend the ends to look like eight spider legs. Paint the spiders black or in any wildly creative way you want! After the paint has dried, attach a length of elastic thread to the middle of each spider. Have fun holding your thread and bouncing your scary spider up and down as you take it for a walk!

Plastic Bag Ghost

What you’ll need:
White plastic trash bags
Black marker
Balloons
Some string
Scissors
Masking tape

Instructions:
Blow up/inflate the balloons and cover each one with a trash bag. With the string, gather and tie each bag under the balloon to make a head. Using your markers, draw a spooky face on the trash bag. Be as creative as you can-make a scary face or a funny face. Whatever you want! Attach a piece of string to the
top of your ghosts and display them all around your house and yard.

By Nicole Dean

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Quick, Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas

You can find a large variety of Halloween costumes available at stores in your
neighborhood. However, when you consider the cost and lack of originality, homemade costumes are a more fun and oftentimes more cost-effective option. Plus, if you involve your children in creating the homemade costumes, the results will be worth more than any store-bought costume in any store.

Here are some inexpensive, homemade Halloween costume ideas that will cost little money and show lots of imagination.
Soda Can:
Find an inexpensive plastic barrel and cut a hole in the bottom. Paint the entire barrel the colors and design of your favorite brand of soda in a can. With holes for arms and your head, a simple barrel can transform your child into a soda can.

Ghost:
Ghosts are an old stand-by that never goes out of style. Use an old white sheet with holes cut for the eyes and sew a simple treat bag out of a scrap of material or a worn out pillow case. You can dress your ghost up a bit by making lips out of red lipstick and a few false eyelashes. Or you could color a beard and moustache with markers. You may want to create a colorful ghost by using a sheet covered with polka dots or one that is brightly colored.

Clown:
You can quickly create a great clown with sweat clothes that are a bit to large decorated with fabric paint or markers. Sew on some pom poms, use an inexpensive wig with a large, colorful hat, and you could even stuff the clothing with tissue (although the tissue will be a problem if the need for a restroom break arises).

Scarecrow:
An over-sized flannel shirt, some straw, and faded jeans with patches will make a great scarecrow. Stuff the jeans and shirt with plastic grocery bags and leave a little straw hanging out of the shirt and jeans. A little makeup will complete your scarecrow costume.

Hippy:
You can become a hippy from the 1960s with a tie-dye shirt and faded jeans with holes in the knees. Combine this with a headband, a ponytail wig, and a jacket or vest covered in fringe and you will have the most authentic looking hippy costume of all time.

Nerd:
Halloween is the time to dress like something completely out of character. You can dress your child as a typical nerd, complete with white shirt, pocket protectors, pants that are too short, horn-rimmed glasses, while socks and black dress shoes. Don’t forget to tape one corner of the glasses for a true nerd appearance. Make sure you use plenty of hair gel to slick back the hair and a few overly large fake teeth will be a great addition.

Your child can be the hit of your block or at the neighborhood Halloween party if you use a little imagination and create special homemade costumes out of inexpensive, household items.

Like the commercials say “The memory of your child in a costume you made together” … priceless.
Article Source: http://www.ladypens.com    By: Nicole Dean

Easy Costumes Kids Can Make

Kids love making things with their own hands, including costumes. The two costumes that follow, a flower and a bumblebee, are so easy to make and just perfect for children to help create.
To make a bumblebee you will need …
• 1 Yellow Garbage Bag
• Black Electrical Tape
• A Hair Band
• 2 Pipe Cleaners
• 2 Small Foam Balls (available at craft and dollar stores)
To make the body, lay the yellow garbage bag flat on a table and have your child hold it down, while you cut and place four stripes of electrical tape across, front and back. Your child can then press the tape down snuggly. (Each stripe needs 3 widths of the tape.) Finally, cut holes out for the arms and the head. Note: If you make a mistake, clear packing tape or scotch tape works wonders.

To make the antennae twist 2 pipe cleaners to the hair band and then, push a foam ball onto the other end of each pipe cleaner (the wire inside the pipe cleaners makes this easy). Note: Before adding the pipe cleaners, wrap them around a pencil to give them that curly look and add strength.

To make a flower you will need …
• 1 Green Garbage Bag
• Several Sheets of Colored Paper
• Scotch Tape
To make the body, Cut head and arm holes out of the green garbage bag.
To make the head of the flower, cut a 2-inch wide strip of paper and wrapped it around your child’s head from the top of her head to her chin, being sure to create a comfortable fit. Tape it and remove it. Next, cut out several petals about 5-6 inches high by 3-4 inches wide. Let your child pick the colors she wants for her petals. Cut the petals by eye, or create a pattern first (wide and rounded at the top and tapering at the bottom.) Next, attached the petals all along the inside edge of the band you just made and finally, fold the petals outward. Note: The number of petals will depend on your child’s preference.
If the flower headpiece wants to slip off, add a second strip of 2-inch wide paper to the first one from approximately ear to ear, around the back of the head.
Upon completion, your child will not only look adorable, but will be thrilled with knowing she helped make her own costume.
Please remember, plastic bags are not a toy and should be used with caution, under adult supervision.
About The Author
Wendy Legendre
The author has hosted hundreds of kid’s and youth programs and events, ladies events, community events, showers, birthday parties, slumber parties, and camps over the last 25 years. She also directs local theater productions and teaches drama at a small private school. If you are planning a costume party, shower, scavenger hunt or any other gathering or event visit http://www.diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com

Tips for having a fun halloween party for kids

1. Put some orange or green lightbulbs in the room the party is being held in to give the room an eerie glow.

2. Have a spooky sounds tape or cd playing

3. Put blind folds on the kids and put each of the following into big bowls and set out on a table for a “touch” table.
Peeled grapes (eyeballs)
cooked spagetti (guts)
Gummy worms (worms)
ketchup (blood) (have a bowl of water for the kids to wash their hands in afterwards)

4. Use lollipops and tissues to make little ghosts, use a piece of ribbon to tie the tissue on the lollipops, a pen or little eyes glued for the eyes.

5.Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin : Pin the nose on the donkey Halloween style. Easy to make with felt and Velcro.

6.Revived the oldies but goodies, such as bobbing for apples, popcorn balls,musical Chairs,and Mailman.

7. Mummy Wrap – Break into teams of three. Have two member s of each team on one side of the room and the other member across the room. Give each pair a roll of white bath tissue. When the game starts one member must wrap the other too look like a mummy. The person must be totally covered expect for eyes. Once the person is wrapped, the must walk like a mummy across the room to their team member. Then the other team member must carefully unwrap the mummy. Now the one who was the mummy must now wrap the other person using the same tissue. Again once wrapped, that person walks across the room. The the one waiting must repeat the process. The first time to have all three mummies walk wins.
8.For older kids, sit in a circle and tell ghost stories, have each kid add a line or two to a made up ghost story.

9. Have a costume contest, award prizes to each child, based on something unique about their costume, the scariest, the prettiest, the most original….

10. Have a face painting station, paint pumpkins,ghosts, on their cheeks, or make them into cats, Disney characters,or paint a scary face