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MORE SPIDERS

Materials : thread , black paper, markers, scissors and glue. Firstly you crushed the black paper into a ball. Then you take the remaining black paper and cut eight legs out of it , when it is all done use the glue to paste the legs to the crushed black paper . After that you use the marker to draw the eyes. Lastly you use the glue again to paste the thread to the spider and hang it on the ceiling or etc.

Submitted by: Janet,11, Singapore

SPIDER BOX

First you get a box and paint it black then you take a flash light and make a hole in the back of a box so the flash light fits in. Then take some cotton balls and stretch them out so they look like spider webs and then you put a pipecleaner spider in the web this makes a great decoration! Tiara,13, FranceHAND SPIDERS: Materials: 1 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of black construction paper, small scraps of yellow and red construction paper, white crayon, string, scissors, glue stick, tape and your hand. Instructions: Fold black construction paper in half to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Place your hand on it with your palm on the folded end and fingers extending out. Draw an outline with white crayon. Cut out your hand outline leaving the fold. Unfold and you have a spider! Cut shapes of eyes like teardrop ovals then glue eyes on. Poke a hole in the middle of the spider and then put string through it and tape string to underside of your spider for hanging or you can leave the string off for a cute table decoration. Hang your spiders everywhere, be sure to sign your name and age to inside so each year you can see how small your hand was the year before!

Submitted by Sarah,14, Arizona

PUMPKIN CORPSE

My idea is that you take a pumpkin and carve it into a scary- looking face. Than take some old clothing of yours and stuff the body with rags. Put gloves and shoes on the body. After you have done this you put the head on the body. Then put the body in a coffin. You can put blood all over the place, it will look like the boy was murdered. You can put a candle in the pumpkin.

Submitted by Johanna, 14, Canada

DEAD WOMAN'S FLOWERS

Hey girls, to make your house spooky try drying some flowers. Roses really look good. When your flowers are dry arrange them in a vase or pumpkin. Put a fake spider web in the vase with the flowers. You can also spray the flowers black. Looks great!

Submitted by Alyssa, 11, USA

HALLOWEEN WIND SOCKS

Materials: Toilet paper tubes, black, white, orange paint, markers, white, orange and black crepe paper. Paint one of each toilet paper rolls white, orange and black. Let them dry completely. Decorate one to look like a pumpkin with yellow marker, paint or construction paper cut outs. Decorate one to look like a black cat with green construction paper or wiggly eyes. Decorate one to look like a white ghost by adding black eyes and mouth. Add crepe paper strips to the bottom of the tubes and hang up. They decorate any room.

Submitted by Brenna, 6, NY

FANCY PUMPKIN FLOWER VASE

What you need: 1 pumpkin, assorted flowers or fall leaves (preferably fake or silk), pumpkin cutting knife, pencil and paper. What to do: use the pencil and paper to sketch out a face to carve on your pumpkin. Then, with the help of a parent, take out all the insides of the pumpkin through a hole in the top. The hole has to be semi-large. Then take the pencil and draw on the pumpkin the design you had on the paper. Cut out the design. Then take the flowers and put them in the hole at the top of the pumpkin. Put outside or on window sill. To make it look prettier, put a candle on each side of the pumpkin. (Great family project)

Submitted by Cool C, 12, NY

WITCH'S SPELL BOOK

What you need is paper, a computer (or you can hand write it) and some spells. What you do: 1) write down some spells in old English so it makes it look older 2) write in Wedding text if you are doing it on the computer if you are doing it with your hands make it look old 3) dye the paper with coffee or tea and crumple it up to make it look much older

FRONT COVER Get a folder and some glue and some old newspapers 1) Cover the folder in glue and crumple up the paper and glue it to the folder to make it get an older look and when it is dry you should paint it brown, black or gold or maybe even all of them but in gold or black write on the front "Book of Spells" in freaky writing. Fill your book with your spells and then you can read from them at Halloween just like a real witch!

Submitted by Kylie,12 USA

HAUNTED GRAVEYARD

We created a truly haunted graveyard in our backyard by making crosses with all of our "dead" friends names on them, as well as an epitaph of how they "died" that suited their personality! We then made them take their cross home with them as they left for home that evening. All you need is some scrap wood (2X6's are great), some white paint and a permanent black felt pen and some imagination.

Submitted by Victoria, Canada

OUTSIDE SPOOKTACULAR!

1. Get a black sheet or some kind of cloth and drape it across your garage door. Then get glow in the dark fabric paint or little gemstones. Glue the gemstones on the sheet in pairs, so it looks like eyes. It wont look that good up close. But the farther back you get, the better they look 2. Take a big bucket, get red food coloring( a whole bottle or more), flour and water. Mix them together. Add more food coloring until you get a mixture that looks like the color of blood. Pour it on your driveway or sidewalk. WARNING!!!! This doesn't come off for a couple months or more. You'll have a pinkish concrete for a while. But it will fade away. 3. Don't want to buy tombstones from the store?? Get a box and cut tombstone shapes outta of the sides. Don't make them perfect shapes, they're supposed to be uneven a little bit. Take chalk or white or gray spray paint and give it a little color. Then take fabric paint or markers and write names and sayings on them. Stick a piece of wood on the back and put it in the ground. For the real effect, get a bag of plastic bones(from those plastic skeletons, they sell bags of hands, feet, and arms) and lay or stick them in the ground. Looks like they're rising from the dead!

Submitted by Allison, 14, Illinois

CRAWLSPACE FROM BEYOND

Get about eight or so large cardboard boxes and lots of scary items, fake cobwebs, gooey grapes, etc. Connect the boxes with heavy tape and set the boxes up so that they can be crawled through. Put blankets down with a few dry twigs on them. Make sure it is very dark. Then set all your spooky items up and.... Invite your friends to crawl their way through your haunted house!

Submitted by Monique, 10, S.A.

SPOOK HOUSE:

1. Pick the darkest room in the house 2. Stick glowing decorations on the walls of the room 3. Set up pumpkins with candles in them all over the room 4. Put cobwebs everywhere, even on the ceiling 5. Put a skeleton in the coat closet to scare your friends 6. This may sound strange, put a skeleton in the bathroom on the toilet (someone scared me with that idea) 7. Make sure you have lots of scary sounds.

Submitted by Lauren, 12, New York

SKELETON SURPRISE

Buy a cardboard skeleton (the basic flat ones you can get really cheaply). Find a guitar or cello case and place the skeleton inside so it is all actually in the case. Tell your friends you are going to play some spooky music on your guitar/cello and ask someone to fetch you the case. When they give it to you open it and scream. Everyone else will scream, too! it's soooooooo fun!

Submitted by Zoe, 12, England

HALLOWEEN CANDY COLLAGE

What you need: Candy you don't want after Trick or Treating, Friends and Family. This is really good when you have A LOT of friends and you've just finished trick-or-treating. There are always different types of candy that you don't like or doesn't look safe to eat. I like to use these candies to make a picture by gluing them to a piece of cardboard. For more color use the wrapper and candy separate. If you want to preserve this, simply paint a layer of varnish over the top. Remember to keep it away from little children or pets!

Submitted by Farah,13,Canada

PUMPKINS

You will need newspaper, orange paint, a paint brush, glue, crayons, markers and green felt. First you need to make a ball with the newspaper then take small sheets of the newspaper and glue over the ball until it is smooth. Then paint your newspaper orange then with your green felt make a stem and then make eyes and a mouth with your crayons or markers.

Submitted by Heather,11, N.Y.

PUMPKIN WINDOW DECORATIONS

Need: orange tissue paper, black marker, green tissue paper Directions- take one piece of orange tissue paper and fold it in half. Cut out what would be half of a pumpkin. Unfold it and then draw a face on the pumpkin. Cut out a stem from the green paper and paste it on to the top part of the pumpkin. Then hang the pumpkin in the window and when the light comes through it will be really pretty.

Submitted by Liz, 11, Pennsylvania

MORE PUMPKINS

We are making felt pumpkins for the sick kids at a Children's hospital. What you need: orange felt, paper, scissors, and black marker. How to do it: Draw a pumpkin shape on the paper then cut it out. Use this to trace a pumpkin onto the felt and then cut it out. Then draw a scary or funny face on it.

Submitted by Sky C.,13, California

FLYING GHOST

1. materials you need: 12x12 piece of cheesecloth, cottonballs, googly eyes, stick and fishing line. 2. Stuff the cheesecloth to make a head of a ghost. 3. Tie fishing line around the neck. 4. Glue googly eyes on ghost head. 5. Tie fishing line to stick. 6. Cut cheesecloth into strips 2 inches up if you want to make him look spooky. 7. Wave him around and you have a spooky ghost.

Submitted by Amanda, 11, Michigan

HANGING GHOST

First get a bouncy ball (try an make it a solid, light color) put two tissues around it and make it tight so that the bouncy ball looks like a head and then put a rubber band around it. You can draw faces on it if you want. Then get a pin and stick it in the top center of the head and make sure the top of the pin is flat and wide around. Next get white string or fishing line and tie it in a couple knots around the top of the pin and then cut the end of the string at the right length so you can hang them from the wall. Then get tape and tape the ghosts to the ceiling so when people walk in there are ghosts hanging from the ceiling.

Submitted by Julie,11, USA

FLOATING GHOSTS

Materials: -18" white balloons -about 3 yards. of cheesecloth -black permanent marker - white string -helium air Instructions: Go to a local store and get a staff member to put helium in your balloons. Next, draw a ghost face on the balloon, let it dry. Then, put about half a yard of cheesecloth on the balloon. Tie the white string around the bottom of the balloon to hold the cheesecloth on. Last of all, decide where you want to hang your floating ghosts.

Submitted by Lauren, 13, Texas

MORE HANGING GHOSTS

To do this craft you will need: one white balloon, string, a white cloth, black marker. First you blow up your white balloon and tie it. Then you tie a piece of string to the end of the balloons. Cut a tiny hole in the cloth(in the middle)and slip it over the string so it can drape over the balloon. Draw eyes on the cloth and you have your very own hanging ghost!!!

Submitted by Mindy,13, USA

STANDING GHOSTS

Liquid starch, cheesecloth or gauze, detergent bottles or 1/2 gallon milk bottles, aluminum foil. Top bottle with ball of foil to create the head of the ghost. Twist a sturdy "snake" of tinfoil once around the bottle to create the effect of arms. If necessary, tape in place. Cut a length of gauze to fit over bottle, just enough to slightly drag on ground. Dip gauze into the starch. Squeeze out gently making sure it is very saturated, but not drippy. Drape gauze over bottle and adjust edges and wrinkles as you desire. Let dry overnight. Once dry, lift the ghost off the bottle and let it stand on its own.

Submitted by Lindsay, 11, USA

SQUISHED WITCH

To make a really cute squished witch, you will need the following: 1) black cardboard 2) furry tip of a paint brush 3) 1 in. piece of thin ribbon 4) glue 5) different. colors of construction paper 6) brown or black or gray yarn GET STARTED: Cut a 4,x4x,4 triangle out of the black cardboard -glue the furry tip of the paint brush standing straight up to the bottom, middle part of the triangle. This will serve as the witch's broom. -cut out 4 rectangular pieces of construction paper, 2 sm. hands, 2 feet, and a witches' hat. -next, cut 10 pieces of yarn 1 in long -now, from the underneath part of the witch, glue the 4 rectangular pieces of paper on the other sides of the rectangle opposite of the tip of the paint brush. Glue the hands and feet to the 4 rectangular pieces which now represent legs. Then turn the triangular cardboard right side up again. From here, glue the 10 pieces of yarn to the top point of the triangle which will hang down as the hair. Finally, glue the paper hat over the hair with a bit of hair hanging from underneath. Guess what? You've made your squished witch.

Submitted byLaura,14, Texas

SPOON GHOST FAVORS

What you need: plastic spoon, dumdum sucker, cheesecloth, orange and black ribbon, black marker What you do: Draw a ghost face on the back of the plastic spoon Take the dumdum sucker and put it on the front part of the plastic spoon Put the cheesecloth over the spoon and dumdum sucker Tie the orange and black ribbon around the ghost's neck. Give to friends at school or Halloween party!

Submitted by Mindi,7, Idaho

SPOOKY CANDLE TABLE DECORATIONS

You need: *2 long, giant candles *2 strips of white paper thick enough and long enough to go around the candle *2 pieces of white paper *a black marker * adult supervision *glue *scissors. You need to cut the pieces of paper [not the strips] into the shape of ghosts and draw on a face with the marker. Glue the ghosts onto the strips of paper. Wrap the strip of paper around the base of the candle and glue the ends together. Set the candles on a table to dry for about 10-15 min. Set the candles on a table or wherever desired to burn, about 1-2" from the paper on the bottom or whenever. Make sure the candles don't fall over or the flame reaches the paper, or let your mom or dad watch the candles. Have fun!

Submitted by Michelle,11,Colorado

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN BAT

You need: 1 Styrofoam ball -black paint -black pipe cleaners -black tissue paper -black thread ...paint your ball black ...stick in your pipe cleaners, one on each side ..Cut tissue paper in the shape of bat wings. Attach tissue paper to the pipe cleaners ...thread your thread through your ball and hang up!!!

Submitted by Erika,10, Canada

HALLOWEEN "FUZZIES"

To make a pumpkin; orange fuzzy ball and green pipe cleaner, and tacky glue. Glue a small piece of pipe cleaner to the ball. For a ghost; white fuzzy small ball, small square piece of a white paper towel, and black marker. Put the towel over the ball and squeeze it to make it stay. Draw a face on it.

Submitted by Shauna, 4, CA

STUFFED GARBAGE MONSTERS

Things you need: A white garbage bag, a permanent marker, and some grass clippings or leaves. First you get a garbage bag. Then you get a permanent marker and draw a scary face on the garbage bag UPSIDE-DOWN. After that you fill the garbage bag with grass or leaves. Then you tie a knot at the bottom. Put them in your front yard. Now you have a scary monster in your front yard to scare anyone that comes near your home.

Submitted by Briana,11, Washington

HALLOWEEN GHOST CHAINS

Materials: 1. orange and black paper (construction paper) 2. Scissors 3. glue, or tape, *Instructions* OK, everybody knows how to make these because you usually see them around Christmas, they are .... the chains! All you have to do is.. 1. cut strips of both the orange and black paper, as many as you want to make a long chain. 2. Take one strip, and make a circle with it. 3. Take your glue or tape, and glue or tape it together. 4. Then take another strip and make a circle, but put it through the circle you already made. And keep doing that till you have a long chain. 5. HAVE FUN! AND GET LOTS OF CANDY ON HALLOWEEN!

Submitted by Katelyn,12, NJ

DOOR HANGINGS

What you need... fishing line or clear string, paper or cardboard tape, a door, something to stand on to reach the top of the door. Here is how you do it. Take the paper or cardboard and cut it in strips of paper 2 inches by 2 inches. Then cut the clear string 3 1/2 feet long and cut about 12 pieces. Tape them onto the paper or cardboard then put it on the top of the door so it hangs down. If it does not hang down low enough to touch your face, tie another piece to it to make it longer. In the dark, when it drags across your guests' faces, they'll be spooooked!!

Submitted by Cassie, 11, USA

CRASHING WITCH

To be done on a tree or telephone pole. Needed: Broom, Black dress, Witch's hat, Wig or gray yarn, black boots, red tights, garbage bags, stuffing. Stuff garbage bags and red tights, Wrap your witch clothes around the tree so that it looks like she was flying and crashed into the tree. You'll need to attach the wig or yarn to the hat and attach both to the dress that is stuffed with a garbage bag. put sticks in the tights and make her straddle the tree. Attach the broom as if she were riding it and crashed. Looks spooktacular.

Submitted by Shelli, 13, California

BLOOD BATH

You will need a bottle of red food coloring. Go into the restroom and lift the cover off of the back of the toilet. Drop in 4 or 5 drops of food coloring and replace the lid. Nothing will happen till the next person goes to the bathroom and flushes the toilet. Then the water will turn red but only for 1 flush really freaking them out.

Submitted by Becky,14, Louisiana

CRAZY CONES

You take a piece of colored paper and fold it into a funnel shape and tape at each side end then cut little fringed things on the middle or the sides. Then glue pictures of witches or ghosts, goblins or whatever. And then poke a hole on the top, stick a string through the hole and hang anywhere. Now you have a hanging cylinder with a Halloween decoration on it!

Submitted by Anna, 13, Indiana

WITCH'S TABLE

You need: a table, fake cobwebs, plastic spiders, a black or purple tablecloth, and any other plastic utensils or cauldrons, etc. that you might want to use. How to do the decoration: Set up the table wherever you might like it in the haunted house, party, etc. Place the colored tablecloth on the table with one side shorter than the other. Place all of the false cobwebs over the tablecloth, and scatter all of the plastic spiders around the cobwebbed table. Next, place a black plastic cauldron or large soup or salad bowl in the center of the table. Fill it with hot water, or cool water, and add green food coloring to make a spooky effect. Toss some of the spiders in so that they float around the water. Set the table, and you're ready for a ghoulish dinner at the witch's table!!

Submitted by Alex, 11, USA

"FIRE DOWN BELOW WITCHES CAULDRON

For punch or candy Materials: Black "witches brew" bucket, artificial fall leaves in orange/yellow, glue scissors, raffia - orange and black felt. Instructions: Cut fall leaves and glue to the outer edge of bucket, layer them. When dry, put a circle of black felt at bottom so this won't scratch your table. Tie raffia in a bow at the handle. When finished it should look like there's a fire below your bucket. Fill with punch or candy.

Submitted by Sarah, 4, Arizona

HALLOWEEN TISSUE FUN

What you need: tissues, tape, a marking pen What you do:
First you get some tissues.
Then you make one tissue into a ball.
After that you put another tissue over the tissue that looks like a ball.
Then you tape it a little bit on the ball for the neck.
Then you make eyes and a mouth on the ball.
That makes a baby ghost!

Submitted by Jenna,11, CA

SPIDER CRAFT

What you'll need: 1/2 of a styrofoam ball
scissors
4 pipe cleaners
black and white paint paintbrush What to do:
Take the half of the styrofoam ball and paint it black. Let it dry.
Paint a face on it with the white paint, but don't make it to big.
Cut all the pipe cleaners in half. Stick them in the styrofoam (as legs!).

Submitted by Megan M.,11, Nevada

 

LOLLIPOP GHOSTS

What you need:
black marker
white ribbon
a piece of white cloth (you can use paper towel or tissue)
a lollipopWhat you do:
Take the lollipop and the white cloth. Put the cloth over the lollipop so it covers the wraper.
Take the white ribbon and tie it tight under the wraper part.
Use the black marker and draw on a face.
Now you have a lollipop ghost!

Submitted by Caitlin N., 10, Maryland

HALLOWEEN QUIZ CARDS

What you need:blank index cards
pen or crayons
halloween stickers (optional)What to do:
Write these questions (or funny/spooky ones of your own!) on one side of the card.
Put the answer choices on the opposite side.
Quiz Ideas
If you approach a haunted house what would you do?a)scream and run away.......
b)go exploring......
c)Run inside from the rain.......If you see a walking skeleton what would you do?a)watch it with fasination......
b)scream and run away......
c)run away but dont scream, in case it will hear you.......
d)creep into a dark closet so it won't notice you......If you saw a ghost would you...a)decide to become a ghost chaser.......
b)run away......
c)call out "Hey, ghost, how long have you been dead? 100 yrs?"...then run.........
If you ran outside the haunted house and stumbled into a grave yard would you...a)use a spell you learnt to raise the dead...........
b)run back inside the haunted house to an angry mob of skeletons and ghost ready to turn your heart out............
c) run out of the grave yard to your home.........
Decorate the cards with crayons or stickers.
Pass out the cards (with candy) on Halloween or at your Halloween party.

Submitted by Elizabeth H, 12, Australia

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