Grave Rot Jell-O

As you can see below, this Halloween dessert looks really gross, just the way kids and kids-at-heart like it! However, it’s actually quite tasty - a perfect mix of sweet and tart. Kids will love digging out the worms and other ghoulish goodies from the Jell-O. If you have a Jell-O Mold, you could also make this in a mold. If not, just use a clear glass bowl. Ingredients 1 ...

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Make a Gorilla Mask With Your Preschooler

This is a fun and relatively simple craft project to do with preschool age children. After the adult cuts the cardboard, the children can do much of the rest. Materials needed: Sturdy cardboard, at least 8 ½ x 11 inches Yarn, black or dark brown Felt, yellow, red, gray, brown Glue Adult and child scissors Markers, pens or pencils Take your cardboard and adult scissors. Look at the shape of the gorilla mask in ...

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Haunting Music on iTunes

Halloween comes but once a year if you're a non-haunter, but that's not us! We love to listen to our beloved Terror Syndicate CDs all year and for every occasion - unless my family threatens to put me into one of my own coffins. One day I got to thinking - were there other types of Halloween or haunting music I might be missing? Was there better party music for my next ...

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Building A Buffet Table - Think Up!

Present a Professional, Stylish Buffet Table Your Guests Will Flock To You've made a list of ghoulish goodies you want to make, grabbed Halloween decorations to use on the table, and set it all up. You stand back smiling at your handywork, thinking the table will look great. Then you see it finished. Suddenly, it hits you. Your food and decorations just don't look like the cool presentations you see in magazines and on tv. Your decorations look mountainous, ...

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Haunted Duck Pond

How to Create a Haunted Duck Pond Game Supplies needed: Floating ducks or other Halloween items that can float Black sharpie marker Snow saucer or other wide, shallow container that holds water Black plastic or black garbage bags Hot glue gun Outdoor table Water Two prize containers (#1 toys and #2 candy) If you have a lot of pre-schoolers, you have to do a Haunted Duck Pond! It is so easy and takes very little time to pull one together. Take a snow disc or ...

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Demented Dime Toss

How to Make a Demented Dime Toss Game Supplies Needed: White foam core, about 18 inches by 18 inches - available at any craft or art store (or snag a foam board used as packing if a friend bought a new appliance!) Sharpie markers (several different colors) Pencil Colored Duct Tape Bulletin board border (in fall or Halloween design) A roll or two of dimes Two prize containers (one for candy and one for prizes) A t-square optional: 1/2 inch number stickers (how many depends ...

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Not-So-Spooky Hand Print Bat

This is a simple craft for even the youngest member of your clan — plus, you can use materials your probably already have around your home. Get creative and make several in different sizes or decorate the wings with glitter, sequins or even store-bought cobwebs. Young children can participate in this craft, too! Have them trace and cut out both of their handprints and decorate the wings while you take care of the hot glue gun. ...

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Host a Halloween Block Party

In many neighborhoods around the country, people don't know their neighbors or are new and looking for ways to meet them. I don't think anyone would disagree that knowing your neighbors is a good thing, especially if you have kids or for everyone's general safety. In our hustle and bustle world, it's getting harder to get to know your neighbors with all the crazy work schedules and children's extra curicular activities, not to mention both ...

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Chainsaw 101 and Other Fun at ‘Halloween Horror Nights’

If you enter a class to see a disheveled professor teaching you the proper way to cut into bodies with a blood-stained chainsaw, chances are you are an employee of Universal Studios Hollywood. (If not, run!) Along with calls for zombie go-go dancers, Chucky puppeteers and zombie dancers, you know you are in for more than a trick or treat come October 5th at Universal Studios Hollywood. Freddy, Jason and Leatherface are joining in ...

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Halloween Books that Are Long on Ideas

We all have a few favorite Halloween books, the ones we keep out all year on our coffee table or next to our easy chair, and would grab if the house caught on fire. These books, for whatever reason, fuel our imaginations and get us motivated to dream our next year's decorations for houses and yards. I keep some books just to look at, knowing full well I may never get around to making one ...

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