Halloween Tips

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Thanks to Party Planning Center for passing along these adorable FREE downloads for these Halloween toppers.  If you would like to be a featured guest post on Look What I Made, watch for our weekly post each Tuesday called A Thrifty online craft fair, link up and you may be selected for our weekly feature post.

Instructions
1. Download the bag tops and/or Halloween bat labelusing the buttons below the instructions and save the art to your hard drive.

2. Print using good paper or card stock on the highest quality setting on your printer. (I used glossy photo paper for the samples.)

3. Write each person’s name on a bag top or tag, or write anything else you’d like. It’s a good idea to do this before you cut and attach the pieces, in case you make a mistake while writing.

4a — bags. Cut the width of the bag tops to fit your particular bags. The artwork is sized to accommodate treat bags up to 6? wide, but you can easily trim it down to fit. Fold the tops in half, then attach them to your stuffed bags with tape, glue or staples.

4b — labels. Use a good pair of sharp manicure scissors to cut out the labels, making sure to include the tabs at the top that will allow you to attach them to the bags. Punch a hole in the tab to allow the ribbon to be threaded through. To thread the ribbon, scrunch up both ends of a piece of ribbon about 15 inches long and push them from the back of the label to the front. Slip the resulting loop over the top of the bag, tighten it and tie a bow, using the bottom end of the ribbon to form the first loop of the bow. That will make the bow sit correctly.

Tip: These would also make great place cards for an adult Halloween dinner party!

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I had my nieces and nephews to play this weekend.  We did some fun projects, but their favorite was MONSTER PUMPKIN BOWLING!  They giggled and laughed and we had a great time! This is fun for kids young or old, and low cost as well!

You will need:

  • Small pumpkin to be your bowling ball ( we just picked one from the garden you may want to get more than one)
  • Empty toilet paper rolls (the cardboard middle)
  • Papers
  • Crayons or markers
  • Tape

A normal 8×11 sheet of paper folded into equal fourths will wrap around the toilet paper tube. So one sheet of paper will give you 4 pins.   Have each of the kids draw their very own monster.  This is what is great little kids can just scribble while older kids can make more detailed monsters.  Once they are done with their monster wrap the paper around the tube and tape it.

 Set your monster pins up and roll the pumpkin to SMASH them down!  We ended up cracking two pumpkins so you may want to get more than one “ball” but  those two pumpkin provided 7 kids an hours of FUN and GIGGLES!

More Halloween Ideas…

Juice Box Mummy’s

Quick and easy Toilet Paper Pumpkins

Pretzel Pumpkins

FREE Printable Halloween Owl Cupcake Toppers

FREE Halloween Printable Cupcake Toppers

Hootie Owl Cupcakes

Pumpkins made out of Paperback Books 

Candy Corn Marshmallows  

Finger Print Spider Card

How to make a TuTu for Halloween 

Hand print spider card

Spooky eyeball treats

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Need a quick and easy Halloween treat idea?  Check out these Spooky Eyeball Treats made with Hostess powdered Donettes.  My kids would love these.

Spooky Eyes

What you need:

  • Red frosting gel
  • Green frosting gel
  • 6 powdered sugar Hostess Donettes
  • 3 red ring-shaped hard candies (Lifesavers)
  • 3 green ring-shaped hard candies(Lifesavers)
  • 6 semi-sweet chocolate chips

Use red frosting gel to draw 4 or 5 lines from center of Donette to outer edges to resemble bloodshot eye. Position ring-shaped hard candy over the hole in the center of the Donette, using frosting gel in coordinating color as glue. Place a chocolate chip on top of candy to resemble eye, again using frosting gel as glue.

Makes 6 servings.

More Halloween Ideas…

Juice Box Mummy’s

Quick and easy Toilet Paper Pumpkins

Pretzel Pumpkins

FREE Printable Halloween Owl Cupcake Toppers

FREE Halloween Printable Cupcake Toppers

Hootie Owl Cupcakes

Pumpkins made out of Paperback Books 

Candy Corn Marshmallows  

Finger Print Spider Card

How to make a TuTu for Halloween 

Hand print spider card

Thanks Hostess for this idea

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Thanks to Living Life And Loving Every Second for this adorable tip of making Halloween decorations!  Simple tip but oh so cute!

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I have been wanting to decorate my front door for Halloween for years but with me being cheap I just can’t bring myself to buy anything. Today a brilliant idea hit me * light bulb moment* and I thought to myself I could  make spooky stickers to decorate the windows. I know window clings are cheap but do they ever stay on very long? NO.

I first drew up some shapes that I liked then I grabbed this chalkboard paper I had bought years ago from Goodwill for .99 cents and cut my shapes. I cleaned the windows first and put them on! The sticky part of it will NOT leave a nasty gooey residue and you can make them any size or shape you want. You can make them for the kids to stick on the windows and since they are made of chalkboard paper you can draw on them after you are done with Halloween you can save them and reuse by sticking them to the non waxy side of wax paper. This concept works for any season any occasion!!

More Halloween Ideas…

Juice Box Mummy’s

Quick and easy Toilet Paper Pumpkins

Pretzel Pumpkins

FREE Printable Halloween Owl Cupcake Toppers

FREE Halloween Printable Cupcake Toppers

Hootie Owl Cupcakes

Pumpkins made out of Paperback Books 

Candy Corn Marshmallows  

Finger Print Spider Card

How to make a TuTu for Halloween 

Hand print spider card

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We sat down to make some fun Halloween cards with the kids.  They are simple but oh so cute and the kids had a blast making them!

You will need

  • Glue
  • Wiggly Eyes
  • Black Ink (washable)
  • Black Sharpie marker
  • White card stock
  • Halloween themed scrap book paper

This works best with little hands (or larger kids make Finger Print Spider Card).  First cut the white card stock to the size you would like.  Next ink your child’s hand with black ink and press it down on the paper towards the bottom of the card.  Use a sharpie marker to draw in the web and lettering.  Glue on to pattern paper and glue on wiggly eyes at the end!

On a side note make sure you are using washable ink…. I used permanent ink by mistake and my little guy ran around with a black hand the rest of the week….lol.

More Halloween Ideas…

Juice Box Mummy’s

Quick and easy Toilet Paper Pumpkins

Pretzel Pumpkins

FREE Printable Halloween Owl Cupcake Toppers

FREE Halloween Printable Cupcake Toppers

Hootie Owl Cupcakes

Pumpkins made out of Paperback Books 

Candy Corn Marshmallows  

Finger Print Spider Card

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milkghost
This is a repost from last year but I LOVE this thrifty Halloween tip, perfect for anyone on a budget that wants to decorate for Halloween.

Milk Jug Ghost Lights (A few years ago we made Milk Jug Ghost Lights. Here is how we did it…) attached is a pic. of when we did our Jug Lights a few years ago

-First you want to save 5-10 milk jugs (however many you will use) rinse them out and dry them
-Once they are dry use black permanent marker to make scary faces on the front
-Cut a small hole in the back of the milk jug
-Lay them outside or in your windows and put a string of Christmas lights in the holes you cut in the back of the jugs and you have cute Ghost Milk Jug Lights
(Total cost will be FREE if you save your milk jugs and use a strand of lights you have at home, if not you can pick up a strand at the dollar store)

Thanks  Streatching your Dollar$ Idaho

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