October 18, 2013

How do you celebrate Halloween?

We’d love to know what you do to celebrate Halloween. Are you crazy about it, and love nothing better than dreaming up a costume idea, making the costume and then partying the night away? Do you eschew the costume yourself, but dress your dog to the nines? Or do you have a bowl of candy next to the door and wait for the kids shouts so you can enjoy the fun and energy of their Halloween? Whichever way you enjoy it, here are some costume, party and recipes ideas that will make your Halloween a fun success!

1. Costume ideas:

Pixelate yourself! Wear a black top, and glue on squares of tissue paper in different colors. On your face, use squares of colored tissue paper held on with spirit gum(found at costume shops, remember to buy remover too!), or just white glue watered down with quite a bit of water. Just blur the edges of yourself!
Stick figures – wear all black and tie glowsticks to yourself . Stickman halloween costume Instructions here.
Zombie! So popular these days, here’s an instruction manual.
Candy Box- Get a box you can fit into, cut armholes and a head hole. Then use craft paper to cover the box, and some paints to paint on the logo of your favorite candy- Reese’s pieces, M&M’s, whatever you love!

2. Halloween Party Ideas

Once we created a headless man and hung him from the back of the bathroom door so when people closed the door they got a surprise. Of course, all the lights were colored bulbs for extra spookiness.
If you can’t afford to make your whole house creepy, then really concentrate on your front door. Bats, chains, gravestones, spiderwebs, blacklight to make everything glow.

HAL_2012_JGN27061 — Photo by partycity.com

Use mini-pumpkins, spider web(available at most dollar stores this time of year), bats on fishing line, candles and fall branches to make your table pretty but appropriately spooky.
Keep the lights low, and hang ghosts in all the corners.
If you have black lace anything, now’s the time to use it, draped over red tablecloths. OK, fancy lace undies might not be appropriate!
Put more spiderwebs around family photos, and add scary vampire teeth to the photos themselves.

Halloween Recipes

Although all these recipe ideas are scary, if not downright gruesome, it might be a good idea to have a homestyle meal on hand from MagicKitchen.com, for the squeamish. here are some of the best Halloween recipes we’ve found from around the web.