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Halloween Idea #11
Dress up the entire clan or your friends as the First Family of
Halloween - The Addams Family!
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky,
they’re altogether ooky, the Addams Family!" The Addams Family are truly
the first family of Halloween and the most recent incarnation is the
"New Addams Family" television series.
Commercially made Halloween costumes are available from
The New Addams Family series. Be sure to check out the
Addams
Family Costume web site for all sorts of specific articles on their costumes, makeup and
much more.
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Halloween Idea #12
Fog machines are now very
inexpensive and readily available during the Halloween buying season. Adding one
or two to your
haunt or party makes a big impact on your Halloween celebration and will add that extra
effect to thrill and scare your trick or treaters.
You can
sit one on your porch while handing out candy, use a few in your
graveyard scene to add that spooky realism of a foggy night in the
cemetery, make a fog chiller to make ground fog or use a leach line PVC
pipe hidden under leaves to make the fog rise from the ground.
Visit
Got Fog? for everything you need to know
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Halloween Idea #13
Use apples for taper candle
holders. There are so many varieties of apples to choose from at this
time of year, you can make a nice display using apples, mini pumpkins
candles. Choose apples for the color and size and also by how they sit.
Make sure the bottom is relatively flat so that t will sit properly with
no chance of tipping over.
You can
use an apple corer to make a hole in the center of the top of the apple.
For long tapers, go all the way to the bottom of the apple. You can also
find a corer that is about the size of a votive candle as well. This
works well using mini pumpkins and small gourds, too. You can make a
nice autumn center piece for your Halloween party table or Thanksgiving
table that will look and smell great! |
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Halloween Idea #14
Great
Halloween party idea, start a circle
ghost story! Sit in a circle and start a scary ghost story. Each guest adds on to the
story until it reaches a scary ending! Visit the
Halloween
Ghost Stories site for lots of spooky stories and even a guide to
telling them.
This is
also fun to do on any autumn night if you have a camp fire burning or in
doors by the fireplace with family and a few friends. Having an autumn
fire burning just it's warm glow gives an air of spookiness to ghost
stories.
Make the
stories age appropriate. You don't want to be telling some ghastly story
to a bunch of 5 years olds! Make sure that the group has some guidelines
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Halloween Idea #15
Record your Halloween
memories with a digital movie camera! Interview some of your trick-or-treaters,
party goers, your yard haunt, carved
jack-o-lanterns and the like. You'll be glad you did when you sit down to watch it later!
Have
several people take turns using the camera so that everyone can be
included if it's a Halloween party setting. If it's a haunt, you might
want one or two people stationed in different areas to catch the
expressions as people walk through. If it's a kids party, you'll want to
keep up with recording for a few years just for the memories and so they
can pass it on to show their kids someday! |
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Halloween Idea #16
You can find
candy companies on
line that will add a personalized wrapper to your candy bars! They are relatively
inexpensive and make a great treat to hand out at your yard haunt!
Get them
customized with your family name, business name to send out to customers
and advertisers or for a special treat at parties, a Halloween wedding,
the ideas are endless.
Whether
it's personalized Hershey bars, M&M's or something from the many small
candy companies that you can find online, you'll find something special
that stands out from the rest of the usual Halloween candy and will keep
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Halloween Idea #17
Having a party for little
ghouls? Let them make their instruments out of oat meal canisters, tin cans
with a lid (put rocks inside), add inexpensive
plastic flute, noise makers, kazoos and have the kids start a musical Halloween parade through your
neighborhood!
The kids love it and the neighbors will, too!
You can have them go up one side of the street, stopping for candy at
each house and then back down the other side, with a parent or adult
going with them.
They'll
have fun at the party and still get some trick or treating in while
entertaining the neighborhood! |
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Halloween Idea #18
An alternative to bobbing for
apples is to hang them by their stems with thread from the ceiling and let party goers try
to bite them!
It's much
more sanitary when you think about it. Bobbing for apples entails many
kids all trying to bite onto an apple floating in water. All that saliva
is full of germs! No wonder kids get colds so often after a Halloween
party that includes bobbing for apples.
This way,
you tie a thread to each apple and use a thumbtack to hang them from the
ceiling. Once an apple has been bitten, remove it. If the child tried to
bit some with no luck, you can quickly clean them off using a paper
towel and a fruit & veggie cleaner! |
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Halloween Idea #19
Check out
the
GothRosary.com
for some very interesting ways to get the scents of the season in your
home and on you! Anti Sally makes all these potions herself, she also
makes Goth rosary jewelry as well. Nothing is animal tested and
everything is made with natural ingredients.
You'll find some wonderful
scents for Halloween like Graveyard, Funeral Flowers, Heathen, Shadows,
Wicked, Hexing and Vanilla Hell. You can purchase a sampler pack of
scents so you can find the one that's "you". She makes perfume oils,
body sprays, shampoo, lotion, candles, hand sanitizer and even deodorant
that all match each scent. Her prices are very reasonable so you'll be
able to pick up a few different scents to wear that will really put you
in an autumn and Halloween mood! |
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Halloween Idea #20
Have a pumpkin carving contest
for your kids and their friends. Buy a few small to medium sized pumpkins and give prizes for the most
creative. There are many pumpkin carving kits out there and some are
made especially for kids, with tools that won't hurt skin or cause cuts. You can also use paints as an alternative.
Make a
party out of it and hold it on the week end before Halloween. Have a
small variety of treats set up during "break time" when you give the
kids a break from decorating or carving. Check out this
article on how to throw a pumpkin carving party. This is fun for
adults as well as kids. Everyone likes to carve pumpkins for Halloween!
And don't forget to save the seeds for roasting, find out how
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