pumpkin soup bowls

Just wanted to share one of our favorite Halloween/Fall traditions. Pumpkin Soup Bowls. You can get them at most grocery stores that carry Associated Foods. Or I am sure you could make them with food coloring, I just buy them at our Lee's or Macey's. They are fun and yummy.

Halloween Pumpkin Vinyl

 These Vinyl Stickers for Pumpkins are a hit.  You can arrange them any way you want.  My favorite are the Polka Dots.  Get the Vinyl Here.

Monster Party

We had a Birthday/Halloween Monster Party complete with Monster cupcakes, Monster necklaces, Monster Masks, and Monster Party Favors.  I got everything from Oriental Trading or Dollar Tree.  Everyone that knows me is laughing right now because I can't get enough of their cheap crap.  Here are some pics...

These are the Monster Eyeball Cupcakes made with Gummy Eyeballs from Oriental Trading and Pull and Peel licorice. 

 Simple Monster Cake made with the same Gummy Eyeballs. 

 Monster Masks from Oriental Trading that came in easy kits. 

 Monster Necklaces that were a hit!  Beads from Oriental Trading.

And the little guy that made this all possible! 

Halloween Party

Last weekend we had a huge HALLOWEEN PARTY!

 It was a blast! Here are some of the details...

The Adorable Partiers

The Yummy Cinnamon Rolls

All printouts are from TomKat Studio.

The Table

Ding Dong Spiders

Witch Fingers

Bat Pinata

Halloween popcorn sleeves

Using the Mini Popcorn bags, I made a sleeve out of scrapbook paper and decorated the outside with ribbon, a little halloween stick-on, and the words

"Hope your Halloween is POPPIN' and not CORNY!!"

 I know, I know, the saying itself is corny, but my friends will love it!

FYI- you can get a box of 10 mini bags for under $2. Makes a cheap little give away- and trick or treaters would also love it.

Spooky Countdown

My Kids love this Halloween countdown.  We also made one for Birthdays and Christmas that I will post later.  It's so nice not to have to tell them each day how many days are left because they already know. 

Boo Someone!

Our family has had so much fun BOOing our neighbors.  I found THIS GREAT WEBSITE where you can print off the poem as well as the sign for them to hang on their door after.  We even got BOOed the next night from the people we BOOed.  My kids love it!  Now go BOO someone!

Costume book

This 'Halloween Book' shows my son's costumes each year. I just made it out of cardstock and scrapbook paper. It will be so fun to look back and see all the fun things he was for Halloween and how he grew. It also makes a great little decoration on an easel. Get out your old Halloween scrapbook scraps and make something!

wooden midgee pumpins

Using these cute little wood stumps that range from 4-8 inches tall, I made little pumpkins. They are just like the ones that are big and go outside, but small for indoor or outdoor use. I spray painted them orange, and the stems brown, hot glued the stems on, and sanded some edges. What a fun, easy, project!   (thanks to my dad for cutting the wood)

spoooooky ideas

This haunted house is a cardboard house from Hobby Lobby. (they have them year-round on the cardboard/wood aisle).  It was 3.99 then half off. I spray painted it black and sanded the edges and windows. I then stretched a small piece of cob web over the house to make it even spookier. The lid opens so I put purple halloween lights inside and cut a little hole in the back for the cord to come through.  

I found this little cauldron at Ross. I filled it up with 'tricks' such as vampire teeth, bugs, spiders and cob webs. Even if you don't have a cauldron that says TRICKS, you could use vinyl letters.

Using Blackboard paint, I spraypainted a pumpkin black. With chalk you can change the faces and write messages on the pumpkin. How fun is that?

This is a simple accordian decoration made using three pieces of heavy cardstock. I covered them with scrapbook paper and connected the three with ribbon. EEK!

Three wreath ideas

1- Use a string of skeletons from the dollar store, and wrap around a wreath for added spookiness.

2- Use a wire of pumpkins from the dollar store to wrap around a wreath.

3- Hang wooden letters over the front of a wreath.

The possibilities are endless... just keep your eyes and mind open when you are at the dollar store.

WITCH'S FEET

These Witch's Feet are easy.  I cut out 4 boot shapes on the spider fabric and then sewed wrong sides together, leaving a hole to stuff with cotton.  I stuffed them and then sewed up the hole.  Then I cut a Rectangle with the striped fabric for the tights and stuffed and sewed to the boots.  I added pom pom ribbon and ric rac and stuck them under my table.  My kids love them.

CHEAP HALLOWEEN DECOR

The other night for Enrichment, my friend showed us how to Decorate for Halloween on a dime.  I was amazed at her ideas and she told me I could share. Here they are...

Witch's Spells Book.  Made by buying an old book, spray painting it Orange, inking the edges and adding Witch's Spells Vinyl.  So cute!

 This is the Book I made.  I added Ribbon for the Bookmark. At Shabby 2 Sweet, she suggested these other book names you could make and stack together:

Witches Spells

Friday the 13th

Tales from the Crypt

Cooking up a Witches Brew

Scary Stories

In the Graveyard

The Dark Dark Room

Ghost Stories

Werewolf's and Witches

Ghosts and Ghouls

This list could go on and on!

Halloween Tree.  Spray paint a limb and secure in pot (floral foam would be easy).  Hang ornaments with vinyl spiders and ribbon.  Add boa and other fillers.

Halloween Wreath.  Instructions for paper wreath here.  Then embellish however you'd like.  She put a scrapbook paper in the middle and got the crow from Dollar Tree.

This is my version of the Halloween Wreath.  I wrapped a boa with Ribbon and then painted a piece of cardboard and added a vinyl EEK sticker.  The crow and Tarantula are from Dollar Tree.

Wooden Pumpkin.  Paint a block of wood.  Cover in a stocking.  Add foliage coming out of top.

Pumpkin Book.  Fold an old book backwards until it makes a circle.  Secure with glue and ribbon.  Add foliage and decorations.

Halloween Jars.  Find these labels at Dollar Tree and stick to Old Pickle Jars, etc. and spray paint lid black.  Also, stick them to Root Beer Bottles.  Fill jars with Skeletons from Dollar Tree or something else.

Halloween Star.  Take a metal star and cut out pieces of Halloween scrapbook paper and mod podge onto star.

Boo Banner.  Take 3 squares of Halloween Scrapbook paper and secure to 3 squares of cardstock.  Then add BOO letters printed off and cut out.  Ink edges and add holes and tie together with riboons.

HALLOWEEN PICTURES.  Glue cute Halloween Paper to Torn Cardboard and Ink
Edges.

BALL DECOR.  Styrofoam balls covered with Rope, flower petals, split peas, moss, fabric and beans.   For a Halloween version, you could cover with gauze like a mummy, orange fabric to look like a pumpkin, etc.