This video shows the shaping,painting and displaying this newest Halloween project which is easy, scary and economical for folks of all ages.
Learn How To Make And Paint Halloween Monster Critters With The Monsterpainter
Halloween is fast approaching, and there's not a lot of time to plan a party. But you're in luck, because I've got some really cool ideas that can be done fast and cheap!
Make this cute origami cat and broomstick for Halloween! Fold along with Tilly to see how it's done.
In this video, learn how to make a bloody veil (because we all know that everyone needs a bloody veil).
This prop gives a whole new meaning to "Til death do us part"! Still attired in her wedding veil, this vampire bride's severed head is fresh with blood. Pallid skin tone, eyes rolled back in her head and blood (perhaps from her last meal) trickles from her sharpened teeth. Very realistic, gory look. Constructed of foam filled latex. Has heavy twine hanger for easy display.
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Halloween is rivaled only by Christmas when it comes to the holidays that generate the most interest for Martha Stewart Living’s readers. Halloween is a compendium of the best Halloween ideas published in the magazine over the last decade.
To help celebrate this ghoulish holiday, the editors of Martha Stewart Living bring us Halloween, a compilation of all the best tricks and treats of the spooky season.
Organized in two sections, Halloween makes this holiday so much fun it’s scary. In “Tricking,” pranksters will find all manner of pumpkin carving, eerie lighting, and makeup and decorating ideas. “Treating” provides the recipes for having a Halloween feast or a hanted-house party and ideas for making mischief with kids.
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Save money this Halloween when shopping for Halloween costumes and decorations with these great coupons from SpiritHalloween.com:
Both offers can be used together!
Jan Crawford shows us a creative way to decorate a pumpkin without the mess of carving. Sound too good to be true? Watch and learn!
The huge spinning blade comes down with a loud menacing BUZZZZZZ. The hopeless victim screams, thrashes and kicks, as the blade rips into the gaping wound. This elaborate illusion uses the actor's own head, arms and legs. The best prop for a haunted house, with a little fake blood added to the prop this would give anyone nightmares!
Buzz Saw is available at FrightCatalog.com.
Set up this disturbing motion activated prop and watch the fear form as your unsuspecting guests pass by. As the shaking starts and the freakish groveling begins, you do a double take to make sure the straps are holding him tight. 23" tall. Spazm runs on AA batteries.
Spazm is available at FrightCatalog.com.
The Halloween decorating craze is not just limited to your front yard and your living room now. People are using Halloween soap in frightful shapes like witches and bats to bring more fun into their bathrooms.
Children can anticipate the scary holiday as they wash their hands every day with black cats, scary wiggly eyeballs, witches, bats, and friendly looking jack-o-lanterns. These decorative glycerin soaps make great gifts for grandchildren, college students, or other fun-minded adults. The soaps conjure up warm thoughts of fall with their luscious fragrances such as dark chocolate, pumpkin and warm vanilla sugar.
Soapourri is a six-year-old handmade glycerin soap and natural bath and body company based in West Des Moines, Iowa. Cindy Helgason, owner and soap designer says, “Every year, sales of Halloween soaps get bigger and bigger. The soaps have the added benefit of being very gentle for children. The Halloween duckies are a new item this year and are very popular."
Soapourri also offers 100 different styles of glycerin soap and other all-natural handmade bath and body products, as well as soaps for every holiday. You can find Soapourri products online at http://www.SOAPourri.com.
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In this video, the Flowergod designs a fall centerpiece using a pumpkin as the container in this video. The arrangement consists of a pumpkin, stock, statice, button poms, Japanese lanterns, yellow rovers, seeded eucalyptus, and some garden greenery.
In this video from Madeline, she shows some Halloween deocrating tips, costume ideas, and how to make Halloween brain Jello.
The brain jello mold is available at Amazon.com.
In this video, learn how to paint leaves on a pumpkin using acrylic paints.
Bloody fresh, grade A heart. Battery operated heart in unique plastic-wrapped styrofoam container actually beats! Life-sized.
Bloody Butcher Beating Heart is available at FrightCatalog.com.
With some corn syrup, drink mix powder and water, you can make a splendid concoction of stage blood—without spending an arm and a leg. From budget-friendly frights to sophisticated props, this book offers dozens of imaginative ways to haunt a house for Halloween. Readers will find generously illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating a barbecued skull, devil eyes, bonehead tableware, a magic bottle, a glowing brain and other projects. The book details ways to enhance an eerie ambiance with effects like blacklights and music. Props use many common household items and tools. Where specialty items are required, the author tells where they can be found at a reasonable cost. Projects take anywhere from a few hours to several days to complete.
The chapters ooze with tips on topics like creating apprehension and surprise, using design to guide guests, creatively using plastic skulls, and making papier-mâché masks and molded hands. There are recipes for fake blood and vomit and ideas for using them, and other creative and adaptable ideas. Appendices include "Merry Halloween," which advises, "One of the best times to look for bargains on Halloween prop-building materials is right after Christmas"; an alphabetical listing of props and supplies and where they can be found; a list of specialty suppliers; and an "epitaph" inviting comments.
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How To Halloween Presents Grim and Igor trying to build old fence panels for a Halloween graveyard.
Any kid who’s ever jumped out from behind a bush to surprise a friend can tell you giving -- and getting -- a good scare can be great fun. Modern Halloween has become a uniquely American homage to our love for a good, clean fright.
“Halloween isn’t just for kids in Spiderman costumes carrying plastic pumpkin buckets,” says Kim Boyd, chief “spook-tologist” for the Johnson Smith Company. Boyd’s family business has been selling novelty items, including Halloween decorations, since 1914. “According to the American Retail Association, only Christmas surpasses Halloween in terms of how much people spend on decorating,” she says.
That means a lot of adults are spending a lot of money each year on Halloween decorations, Boyd observes. “Just as families add to their collection of Christmas decorations year after year, a lot of adults take pride in improving and expanding their collection of Halloween décor.”
Modern Halloween decorations have gone far beyond cardboard skeletons and hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns. Now there’s something for every boy and ghoul -- from the serious collector to the casually creepy -- to fit in virtually every budget. Cheesy, campy, frolicsome or downright bone-chilling, whatever your Halloween decorating style, Boyd and her cohorts at www.ThingsYouNeverKnew.com offer some ideas for decorations sure to set just the right mood this All Hallows’ Eve:
* “Keep your audience in mind,” Boyd advises. “When choosing decorations for kids, remember that your goal is for that initial squeal of surprise to be followed by giggles and laughter. A nice jar of Bubbling Eyeballs, a Coffin Fogger, or Haunted Shaking Chandelier can do the trick.”
If you’re expecting teens or adults to be haunting your abode this Halloween, you can amp up the fear factor with some gruesome masks or the ever-popular Headless Corpse (equally affective on your coffee table as on your front lawn), Bloody Baby, or Twitching Cleavered Head.
* “You don’t have to murder your budget just to scare the life out of someone,” says Boyd. Consider adding small, inexpensive items, like a string of shrunken heads, vinyl replicas of human organs that pulse with multi-colored light, or even a bleeding human skull candle to your Halloween décor. All can be had for less than $10 an item.
* To inspire screams -- and a sheer adrenaline rush -- nothing beats action or sound by an object one thought was inanimate. Decorations like the Life-Size Glowing Mummy are doubly diabolic. The victim knows the mummy is supposed to be a spirited decoration, but doesn’t expect the 6-foot-tall figure to groan and glow when approached.
A motion activated ghoul, called a Spazm, can have the same effect. As a visitor approaches, the seated, shackled figure begins quivering and panting. Definitely at the higher end of the spectrum, and probably most appealing to serious collectors, the mummy sells for $169.98 at www.thingsyouneverknew.com, while the Spazm is available for $179.98. A set of motion- and sound-activated Possessed Books could do the trick at $24.98.
For more fiendishly fun Halloween decorating ideas, visit www.thingsyouneverknew.com or call (800) 232-0962 to request a catalog.
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Halloween has become the second most-decorated holiday of the year. Decorations for house and yard to welcome trick-or-treaters are all the rage. This year an estimated $4.96 billion will be spent on holiday decor in addition to costumes, making it the sixth largest spending holiday of the year, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation.
Keeping up with what’s in style this Halloween season will help you have the hippest, spookiest house on the block. “Creating festive Halloween decorations can be easy and fun for the whole family, whether you’re a beginner or advanced at crafting,” says Susan Atchison, trend expert for Jo-Ann Stores. “This season, creepy, scary monsters are out. Instead, a new cast of goofy ghouls takes their place with silly expressions, crazy colors and lots of whimsical, kid-friendly charm.”
Slightly surprising colors are popping up this Halloween, bringing lots of animated personality to the color palette. Lime green, bright purple and electric blue combine with classic orange and black to create fun color combinations -- not frightening.
For a slightly more sinister Halloween atmosphere, use shades of gray and olive green paired with spicy orange, golden yellow and dusky blue. Or, the traditional colors of orange, black, brown and yellow appear in almost every possible shade and hue to recreate the simplicity and charm of a vintage Halloween.
Whether you’re hosting a Halloween party or just decorating for trick-or-treaters, these easy ideas from Jo-Ann Stores will add a playful, creative touch to your not-so-scary venue:
* Give trick-or-treaters a warm welcome to your home with metal stand-up figurines in vivid colors and lively expressions.
* Dress up your table with a “Boo” table runner and candy dish, jack-o-lantern serving dishes and not-so-spooky trays and platters to add character and charm to your Halloween monster mash.
* Find partyware and décor in matching bright colors and themes to set the tone for Halloween parties at home or in the classroom.
* Display Halloween goodies with a Frankenstein and Skeleton treat bucket -- a fun way to watch even the littlest monsters scream with delight at the treats displayed at their own height.
* Deck the walls and windows with a ghastly garland of spiders, bats, monsters and pumpkins for a playful fright (see instructions). Add a strand of colorful sparkling lights to create fun shadows inside and out.
* Create a personalized treat bag, use colorful fur, felt and yarn to create a cat, a scary or funny face -- for a fun alternative to the typical plastic pumpkin treat bag.
For more ideas and a monstrous selection of the latest trends in indoor and outdoor Halloween decorating projects, visit your local Jo-Ann fabric and craft store.
Ghastly Garland
Supplies and Tools:
* String-along Poms, black
* Textured yarn: black, green multicolored, green ribbon -- 1 skein each
* 1/8 yard purple tulle
* 15 black chenille stems
* Craft foam sheets: 1 orange, 1 green, 3 purple
* Sticky-back craft foam sheets: 2 black, 1 white
* Wiggle eyes
* Scissors and pinking shears
* Purple embroidery floss, 1 skein
* Alphabet template, optional
* Tacky glue
* Hole punch
* Push pins
Directions:
1. Create ornaments:
a. Pumpkins: Cut two 5-inch orange craft foam circles. Decorate with wiggle eyes, black craft foam nose and mouth, and green craft foam stem and leaf.
b. Monsters: Cut two 5-inch flower pot shaped green craft foam pieces. Decorate with wiggle eyes, green craft foam nose, round orange craft foam cheeks, chenille stem smile and black craft foam hair. Gather 5- by 10-inch tulle, wrap short end with floss to form fan shape and glue to the back.
c. Bats: Cut seven 8-inch bat shaped purple craft foam pieces. Cut BEWARE! letters out of white craft foam then glue onto bats. Glue on wiggle eyes.
d. Spiders -- Using pinking shears, cut six 3-inch circles of black craft foam. Place eight 6-inch chenille stem legs between two circles, then glue together to form one spider. Glue eyes on both sides of spiders.
2. Attach the String-along Poms to the wall with push pins to make assembly easier. Allow about a foot of Poms to hang down on each end.
3. Attach ornaments to Poms using chenille stems or yarn. Cut the black and green multicolored yarns together in various lengths and tie between each pom-pom. Cut green ribbon yarn and tie so the tails stick out above the garland. Do the same with scraps of purple tulle.
Approximate Crafting Time: 3 hours
Skill Level: No experience needed
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Eat a good meal prior to trick-or-treating.