Spooky Halloween Spider
Wind black yarn around a small square piece of cardboard until it's really heavily covered; tie it off and remove the cardboard.
Insert four pipe cleaners having the legs come out on either side of the body; bend the pipe cleaners to form the legs. Glue on a pair of red button eyes.
Suspend the spider in an area where people are sure to walk into it. Hang it with a color of thread that is not easily noticed.
Halloween Cookie Jars
Use an old cookie jar or buy a cheap one at a thriftshop.
Draw and color small halloween type pictures (ghosts, pumpkins, black cats, etc.) using construction paper and glue them on the cookie jar; stick on halloween stickers.
Make a batch of your favorite cookies and cut them out using halloween cookie cutters.
Halloween Chain
Cut orange and black strips of paper to any size you desire.
Form a circle with the black strip and staple the ends together. Loop an orange strip through the black loop and staple the ends together. Continue on next using the black strip and then the orange, etc.
Hang the chain in a window, against the wall or mantle, etc.
Spooky Halloween People
Have a parent peel some apples but don't core them. Then have the adult carve out the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears using a sharp paring knife.
Let the apples dry in a warm, dry place until they become shriveled and dried.
Paste on buttons for the eyes (or use googly eyes). Use different colors of wool for the hair and eyebrows, glue on short stands of wool for a mustache or beard, etc.
Use your imagination to create some spooky halloween heads.
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Halloween Balloons
- 20 oz Refrigerated chocolate chip Cookie Dough
- 8 oz Cool Whip -- thawed
- Assorted candies
- Red Licorice Whips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Slice cookie dough into 8 slices. Pat each slice into 4" circles on a lightly floured surface. Pinch the bottom center of the cookie to form a small "jutting out" at the bottom of each balloon (to resemble the area where the balloon is normally blown up and tied off from).
Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely on wire racks.
Spread coolwhip evenly over each cookie. Decorate with halloween candies or pipe frosting on the balloons in the form of halloween shapes or draw halloween pictures).
Arrange decorated cookies on large serving tray to resemble a bunch of balloons. Place a piece of licorice at the bottom of each cookie to resemble the string. Tie all the balloon strings together with the additional licorice.
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Creepy Crawly Gelatin
- 1 1/2 c Boiling water
- 1 lg Pkg orange-flavor gelatin
- 1 1/2 c Cold water
- Gummy worms candy
Stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl until completely dissolved. Stir in cold water.
Pour into no-stick pie plate (or spray your pie plate with a vegetable spray).
Refrigerate about 1 1/2 hours or until mixture is thickened.
Push gummy worms into gelatin.
Refrigerate 2 hours or until firm; unmold.
Swamp Punch
- 2 c Boiling water
- 1 lg Pkg lime-flavor gelatin
- 2 c Cold orange juice
- 1 l Cold seltzer
- Ice cubes
- 1 pt Orange sherbet; slightly softened
- 1 Orange; thinly sliced
- 1 Lime; thinly sliced
In a large bowl, stir boiling water into gelatin until completely dissolved; stir in the orange juice. Leave till lukewarm.
Just before serving, pour into punch bowl. Add cold seltzer, ice cubes, sherbet by the scoopful, and the orange and lime.
Dirt Pie
- 1 pk Jello Chocolate Instant Pudding (4 serving size)
- 1 c Milk, cold
- 1 ea COOL WHIP, thawed (1 Litre)
- 13 ea Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, chopped; and
- 7 ea Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, chopped
- 1 1/2 c KRAFT minature Marshmallows
- 1 ea Prepared Graham Crumb Crust, 9-inch
- Gummy worms, Gummy frogs, and candy flowers for decoration
Dump the pudding into a large bowl; add the milk and mix together.
Fold in the coolwhip. Stir in 13 of the cookies and all of the marshmallows. Spoon into the crust.
Sprinkle top with the the remaining 7 cookies and decorate with gummy worms, gummy frogs, and candy flowers.
Freeze until firm, about 4 hours.
Remove from freezer about 10 minutes before serving.
Halloween Fig Spooks
- 1 pk White cake mix
- 1/2 c California dried figs, chopped fine
- Butter icing
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Prepare the cake according to package directions. Fold in the figs.
Fill cupcake pans about 2/3 full.
Bake for about 25 minutes or until they test done.
To make the spooks just turn the cupcakes upside down and place a dab of icing in the center, and set whole California dried fig upright with the stem standing erect at the top.
Let stand until firm, then ice the whole thing with soft white butter icing. Let icing flow around the base of the cupcake to resemble a sheet. Mark off slits for the eyes.
Critters in the Hay
- 1 1/2 c Sugar
- 1 c Light corn syrup
- 2 tb Butter
- 1 1/2 ts Pumpkin pie spice
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1/2 ts Green food color
- 3 1/2 qt Popped popcorn
- 1 c Candy corn
- Licorice whips; black
- Wooden picks
- Storebought White Frosting*
- Small black gum drops
- Tiny red jaw-breakers candy
- Gummy Worms
* Take a tiny amount of the icing and add a drop of red food coloring (this will be used to secure the spider's eyes; use the rest of the frosting on cakes, cookies, cupcakes, etc.)
In Dutch oven, bring sugar,corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2 1/2 minutes. Stir in pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, salt, and food coloring; mix until evenly colored.Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated.
Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden. Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside.
To make the spider's legs just cut licorice into 2 inch lengths. Starting at one end, make three 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch cuts to make four legs. Repeat cuts at opposite end. Leave about 1/2 inch in center uncut. Gently pull legs apart and curl them down.
Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about 1/4 inch exposed on top. Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make the body. Using a toothpick, apply two dots of the red frosting and then press the jaw-breakers into the icing to make the eyes.
Place the homemade spiders and gummy worms onto the popcorn.
Remove wooden picks before eating. Makes 4 quarts.
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