Wouldn't it be great to create your own Halloween arts and crafts and transform your home into one big fun haunted house on Halloween? Your kids will absolutely love this idea. All you need is a theme, some accessories, appropriate lighting and sound effects.
Cemetery Halloween Arts and Crafts Theme
For this Halloween arts and crafts theme, think of coffins, bones, stone hedges, and dead bodies.
Use a cardboard box for your very own coffin! Also get a large-size cardboard piece and cut out the shape of a coffin for the opening/cover. Paint a red or white cross over the top of the coffin.
You can imitate the sound of stepping over a mass of bones by drying bread in the oven and placing them under an area rug.
Cut out stone hedges out of Styrofoam, paint them gray, and write R.I.P. over them with a marker. You can also write your names or guest's names for that spooky feeling.
Make body parts by stuffing rubber/latex gloves with cotton and painting the opening red for that bloody effect.
Add a unique touch to your decor by filling goblets with blood and displaying them in hallways and your dining area! This will enhance that vampire-in-coffin feel. You can purchase clear plastic goblets and have fun mixing red food coloring. Make the blood thicker by adding cornstarch to the mixture.
Pumpkin Yard Halloween Arts And Crafts Theme
If you want a really chilling yet unique Halloween arts and crafts pumpkin theme, you don't always have to use real pumpkins. Use other fruits such as green bell peppers and mandarins and place tea candles in them to create scary faces.
Spreading dried leaves and fake cobwebs along the hallway and on the tables will also add a forlorn look to the whole place. Hang sticks in your porch. Place plastic spiders, rats and eyeballs within the mass of dead leaves and sticks.
A scary scarecrow would be another Halloween arts and crafts idea you can add to your pumpkin yard. Hang an old, dusty shirt over a clothes hanger. Staple the bottom part of the shirt and stuff it with hay or dead grass. Use dead branches for the arms. Then, use a witch's hat for the covered scarecrow head. Punch a hole in the hat where the hook of the hanger can go through. Hang the body over windows, doors or cabinet handles.
You can use cotton for cobwebs and you can spread it all over the place for each theme. You can also use washable paint on your windows-you can either use spooking green all over or apply splashes of red for "blood".
For lighting, replace your white bulbs with black, orange or red ones. You can also cover lamps with colored cloth or netting for eerie shadows.
You can play scary background sounds which you can easily get and download from the internet. Choose sounds of creaking doors, howling wolves, screaming, and ghosts.
Decorating your home with Halloween arts and crafts is as easy as choosing a theme, adding basic Halloween props, altering your lighting and downloading music over the Internet. Just try to be creative and have fun while decorating!
2007年12月18日星期二
Easy Trick-or-Treat Safety Tips
Americans love Halloween and have made this late fall holiday second only to Christmas in popularity. As I watch the leaves turn red and gold outside my study window in early October, it seems like a good time to review some basic Halloween safety. I've put together a few tips about costume and candy safety that I hope will make Halloween both safe and fun for you and your family.
Costumes
Today's Halloween costumes are more elaborate than ever. No matter how your child dresses up for Halloween - be it as the Silver Surfer of Fantastic Four lore or Elizabeth Swann of Pirates of the Caribbean - there are several key safety features to consider.
Topping the list of safety features is the use of flame retardant material. Candles are always popular at Halloween - either inside a pumpkin or simply as an exposed flame - and fire retardant material can be your child's best friend. A fire-retardant costume is much less likely to catch fire if your child accidentally brushes against a candle or other open flame.
Next, no Halloween costume is truly complete without reflective tape. Strips of reflective tape make it much easier for passing motorists to see your child in a car's headlights. If your child's costume doesn't have reflective tape, you can upgrade the costume inexpensively by purchasing reflective tape at a nearby hardware store and applying it yourself.
Last but not least, sew or glue a name tag or other label to the inside of your child's costume. Make sure to include key information like your child's name and address, as well as a phone number where you can be reached if your child becomes lost or separated from you or your group.
Candy
It's both a sad and disturbing comment about the society we live in that many hospitals will now X-ray Halloween candy for free on Halloween night. While incidents of poisoned candy or candy laced with dangerous objects are rare, your child's health and safety are too important to leave to chance.
Make it very clear to your child that he or she should not eat any candy until you personally inspect it. When you do inspect candy, make sure that wrappers are intact. If a wrapper is torn, or there is any other any evidence that a piece of candy has been unwrapped and then re-wrapped, don't hesitate to throw the candy away.
One way to ensure your child's candy is safe is to get involved in the Halloween experience on a more personal level. Instead of allowing your children to trick-or-treat at the homes of strangers, drive your children to the homes of people you know and trust, where they can collect candy from relatives and friends. Another option is to take your kids to a Halloween party at the home of a friend or neighbor. Or, throw a Halloween party for your kids and their friends in the safety of your very own home.
Conclusion
Costumes and candy are important elements of a safe and fun Halloween. Following the tips above and researching additional topics on your own - traffic safety is one of several good examples - will help ensure many years of happy Halloweens for you and your children.
Costumes
Today's Halloween costumes are more elaborate than ever. No matter how your child dresses up for Halloween - be it as the Silver Surfer of Fantastic Four lore or Elizabeth Swann of Pirates of the Caribbean - there are several key safety features to consider.
Topping the list of safety features is the use of flame retardant material. Candles are always popular at Halloween - either inside a pumpkin or simply as an exposed flame - and fire retardant material can be your child's best friend. A fire-retardant costume is much less likely to catch fire if your child accidentally brushes against a candle or other open flame.
Next, no Halloween costume is truly complete without reflective tape. Strips of reflective tape make it much easier for passing motorists to see your child in a car's headlights. If your child's costume doesn't have reflective tape, you can upgrade the costume inexpensively by purchasing reflective tape at a nearby hardware store and applying it yourself.
Last but not least, sew or glue a name tag or other label to the inside of your child's costume. Make sure to include key information like your child's name and address, as well as a phone number where you can be reached if your child becomes lost or separated from you or your group.
Candy
It's both a sad and disturbing comment about the society we live in that many hospitals will now X-ray Halloween candy for free on Halloween night. While incidents of poisoned candy or candy laced with dangerous objects are rare, your child's health and safety are too important to leave to chance.
Make it very clear to your child that he or she should not eat any candy until you personally inspect it. When you do inspect candy, make sure that wrappers are intact. If a wrapper is torn, or there is any other any evidence that a piece of candy has been unwrapped and then re-wrapped, don't hesitate to throw the candy away.
One way to ensure your child's candy is safe is to get involved in the Halloween experience on a more personal level. Instead of allowing your children to trick-or-treat at the homes of strangers, drive your children to the homes of people you know and trust, where they can collect candy from relatives and friends. Another option is to take your kids to a Halloween party at the home of a friend or neighbor. Or, throw a Halloween party for your kids and their friends in the safety of your very own home.
Conclusion
Costumes and candy are important elements of a safe and fun Halloween. Following the tips above and researching additional topics on your own - traffic safety is one of several good examples - will help ensure many years of happy Halloweens for you and your children.
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