Homemade Halloween Costume

UP HOUSE

Trick or treating was a lot of fun with this homemade one of a kind costume. Every house we went to really enjoyed it! The kids especially got a kick out of the homemade costume I made Natalie this year. The only part of it that was difficult was getting in and out of the car. We opted to have Grandma drop us off at the end of the subdivision and walk to the other side instead of getting in and out of the car. This costume was made from a cardboard box, toothpicks, paper plates, tape, glue, recycled post office mailers, and craft paint. I added 2 extension rods inside the box to tie the shoulder straps too. It was a lot of fun to make the 3 dimensional version of the UP movie house. I found a coloring book with the movie characters and we colored them and cut them out to have the little boy on the porch and Carl hanging out the Window just like in the movie. To make the house I just looked at the picture of the house and kept cutting and taping the details to the cardboard box. Natalie wanted to paint something so she painted the movie logo on the back of the box so even if someone didn't recognize the house with balloons they could read the movie title on her way back to me after getting her "treats".

Halloween School Craft #2

I did a few more crafts with Natalie's first grade class this year for halloween. Here are the instructions to make two simple and very quick crafts.

Eyeball Necklaces

Package before hand in a baggie:

foam eyeball (skull or whatever else you can find a lot of)

string

jumpring attached to a jewelry pick(if you have older children you can let them attach the jump ring)

glue(optional)

To make:

1.) push jewelry pick into foam shape(in this case eyeball)

2.) optional...glue into place and let dry

3.) place string through the jump ring

4.) place around neck and tie

5.) enjoy sporting around your new halloween necklace

Witch Pencils

Package before hand in a baggie for each child(you don't have to do this but it makes it a lot quicker):

1 pencil

1 piece of felt approx 6 inches long and 3 inchs wide(I used brown and black)

rubber band

piece of string or ribbon

To make:

1.) cut felt piece to look like a fringe. This will be the broom strands.

2.) wrap fringed felt around end of pencil with eraser

3.) secure with rubber band

4.) tie ribbon or string around the rubber band to hide

5.) sharpen and use

I hope you can use these ideas. Happy Halloween

Halloween Treat - Witch Hat Cookies

I made these witch hat cookies every year. One because they are so easy and two because they are so cute. My two favorite things easy and cute without much effort.

You need:

Striped townhouse cookies(or similar)

Hershey Kisses

Icing(I like the squirt bottles but you can use regular icing

1) place striped cookies upside down

2) unwrap hershey kisses

3) squirt a glob of icing on the bottom of a hershey kiss

4) smoosh hershey kiss on top of cookie

5) enjoy your witch hat cookie. Now how easy was that?

halloween 2009 - many faces of Natalie

Natalie has always dressed up in a few different outfits every halloween. We always have a halloween party (outfit 1), we go trick or treating around the neighborhood(outfit 2) , and we always go to Walmart (outfit 3). This year we added two more outfits because of trick or treating times in different "grandma zones" and because school had a dress up as your favorite book character day. Here are the photos of Natalie so far....Last one for tonight is not quite done yet...but it's a doozie(and homemade) so check back soon for pics of it. :)

Halloween Party - Bumble Bee (Daddy was a beekeeper)
Grandma Trick or Treat - Rag Doll
School Favorite Book Character - Fancy Nancy
Walmart - Super Girl (pics coming soon)
Home Trick or Treat - ????

Halloween Dessert Buffet

Here is a pic of my halloween dessert buffet.....check out my other blog shortly for the details of the buffet and my halloween party this year :) http://craftparty.blogspot.com/

Fancy Nancy Costume

My daughter's school doesn't have a "normal" halloween dress up day like we used to when I was in grade school. They have a week of activities like wear a hat day, backwards day, team spirit day, and the final day is dress up as your favorite book character day. So this year Natalie decided that Fancy Nancy would have to be the character she dresses up as. I have to say my eyes lit up because she doesn't usually want to dress very fancy :) So I went to JoAnns and found some great hot pink silky fabric and some light pink with sparkles fabric and went to town on a "fancy" skirt. Then I headed to goodwill to find a shirt I could alter into something fancy. Then it was off to the dollar store to find all the fancy accessories. One last stop put me at Michaels searching for something to fancy up her shirt. I found the pink glitter iron on letters and the rhinestone iron on butterfly...YEAH!!! Her hair took a while in the morning with all the feathers, bobby pins, and crowns but in the end I think she turned out fancy fabulous.

Halloween Napkins

Here is a cute easy way to bring halloween into your mealtimes. Go to the dollar store and buy some skeleton hands (10/$1.00) and a package of black napkins. Get out some of your ribbon you have been hoarding(o.k. maybe I'm the only one that hoards ribbon :) ). Tie them together and put them at each place setting for a creepy touch.

I made 40 of these to use for our halloween party this Saturday. I think they turned out very cute and I did 40 for $5.00 bucks and the only store I had to go to was the Dollar Tree.

Enjoy!

Halloween Trophy - Try # 1

Just wanted to give an update on one of my halloween projects. My first trophy "redo" is just about done. I like it but I'm not crazy about it yet so I will keep tweaking. I found a little doll at a flea market for $.10 so I wrapped her to look like a mummy and put a nail in her foot to place her on top of the trophy I took apart and spray painted black. I still have to make the name plate but for now I just wrote it on the front. I think I'm going to add some cobwebs and spiders too. The next one I'm trying will be a skull head or skeleton. Check back.