Articles and Ideas September, 2007

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 six oz container of lime ...
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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 the picture of the back ...
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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 bash that I'd never heard? ...
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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, while the dishes look squatty ...
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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 shallow container and put it ...
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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 on how many squares you ...
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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. Older children will be able ...
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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 spouses working. Where is the ...
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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 the carnage known as "Halloween ...
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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 project found between the pages. ...
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