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Fun & Creative Princess Party Ideas
Fun & Creative Princess Party Ideas If you’ve got a special little girl between the ages of about 3 & 7, then a princess birthday party could be the big social event of the year! When looking for princess party ideas, it’s obvious to think of...
How To Create A Halloween Costume
You don’t have to be a tailor or seamstress to create a Halloween costume. In fact, you don’t even have to own a needle or thread. All you need is some creativity (or a friend who’s creative), a closet with some clothes, and a nearby thrift shop....
Ten Tips For a Healthy Halloween
Does Halloween signal the starting of a whole season of unhealthy eating for you? The Halloween candy is out and we buy early for the best selection. Then it’s in the house calling our name, and we eat some of it (or all of it?) before the day...
UFOs, Ghosts and Bootleg Booze: What A Weird Story!
Can a place, rather then a person or dwelling, be a magnet for supernatural activity?
The Noon Inn was built around 1840 and sat near the corner of Newbridge and Prospect Avenues in East Meadow, New York, for over a hundred years. Between 1964...
Wacky Spiders - A Fun Halloween Craft For Kids
This is one of my favorite Halloween crafts for kids. It is quick and simple, can be done with a crowd if necessary, and is an excellent way to practice cutting and fine motor skills with younger children. Older kids can let their imaginations take...
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A Frightfully Good Time
It's almost Halloween - the days are slipping past, but they too can be a lot of fun - all leading up to a great family/friend time for all.
This year, try placing your scarecrew at a table (an old one from your garage or shed) or make one from two saw horses and a flat board. Instead of the 'ol straw hat, place a chef's hat on his/her head and make sure he/she has an apron. Then load on the bountiful Fall harvest (pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, apples, etc.).
Heads will turn to check out the new chef in town.
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Instead of just setting out a big bowl of goodies for family and friends to enjoy while watching TV, playing games, or sitting by that bonfire -
Place a handful of your choice of treats in an ice cream cone, or waffle cone. You can even make colorful cones from heavy paper, rolled in a cone shape, and taped. Place in your scariest bowl and let the fun begin.
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After a hard day of helping to decorate the great outdoors - let your children have fun in the tub -
Spray shaving cream into plastic containers and add just a quick drop of food coloring in each one in the colros of Halloween - yellow, orange, monster green, etc.
The little ones can then make tomorrow's blueprints
for even more fun on the tub, or enclosure, and no harm is done - clean-up is fast and easy.
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And speaking of kids - begin now to make a memory placemat for enjoyment years to come - not only for the wee ones but for all the adults as well.
Take pictures while raking leaves, making costumes, or any Fall or Halloween fun time and include the adults and friends or neighbors that just happen to come by. Continue your collection of pictures until Halloween day and make your child or friend, or hustand, wife, or whoever, the centerpiece in the mat. Add all the other pictures around, with the date and year on the very bottom.
Laminate both sides and do this every single year - not only will you see how things change, but the laughs and giggles start when years down the road, costumes change, people change and even the 'ol homestead changes. Everyone enjoys looking back and enjoying the moment once again.
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Halloween and every day leading up to this holiday -
ENJOY!
©Arleen M. Kaptur 2003 October
About the Author
Arleen Kaptur has written numerous books and articles on living a simple/rustic lifestyle and enjoying every day of it.
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