Halloween Crafts

Halloween is just around the corner and it is time to start thinking about great party and costume ideas. This year at our family reunion we had a halloween party. (There is a reason why we don't celebrate halloween in July. It's too hot for costumes! Guess we weren't thinking about that.) We just thought the kids love dressing up and we never get to see everyones costumes because people live so far away. Well, I love making costumes. I always like our family to have theme costumes. Well this year my son really likes toy story so I thought this would be a good idea. I will post more in depth instructions of how I made each of the costumes later but here is the final product. Sorry it's not a very clear picture but you get the idea.

My aunt came up with the following ideas for a halloween party. She did a great job and it was a lot of fun. This was the menu.

Hand and Cheese Sliders-Really was Ham and Cheese Sliders.

I had never had this before and it was really good. I thought it was prefect for halloween dinner because the sandwiches look like bugs are crawling on it. (just poppy seeds) You can find the recipe at http://thegirlwhoateeverything.blogspot.com/2010/04/ham-and-cheese-sliders.html/.

Mummy toes- just little sausages in a biscuit and Brain Matter and Chips- Chip and Dip.

For dessert was apple slices and you got to dip them in carmel then in your favorite type of candy.

When it comes to decorating for a party one of the easiest things to decorate with is candy. I went to the local thrift store and found different size jars for .75 cents and filled them with different types of candy. Here are a few of the different tables we had decorated.

This last picture was not only our decorations, but our craft. The little kids decorated the little jars with tissue paper and mod podge, then cut a little face and tied a ribbon to the top. They were cheap and easy craft for kids. One of the days the women got to paint their own wooden BOO. There is a store in Utah called wood connections that has tons of wooden crafts. My aunt order a bunch of BOO's for us. We sanded, stained, painted, glittered, then sprayed a clear gloss on them so the glitter wouldn't come off. They turned out so cute.

Then the last thing that makes a party fun is games. There are tons of games out there on the internet and in books. Just remember to keep kids ages in mind and they will have a great time.

Halloween Costumes

We likes to have a theme for our Halloween costume. This year we were Curious George, Man in the Yellow Hat, and Banana. I bought the monkey costume at DI for $3.00. Then I bought some white pants at DI as well and dyed them yellow and use one of my husband's old white shirts and did the same thing. Our Walmart cut back on their fabric so the only stiff fabric they had was white, so I thought I could dye it as well but it wouldn't absorb the dye. I ended up spray painting the fabric. I was worried that it would rub of on stuff but it did. I got my husband's hat at the dollar store and painted it yellow and put a black ribbon around it. It was an easy year for Halloween costumes and they were fun to make.

Halloween and Thanksgiving Craft Pillow

Thanks to my aunt Diane and the Holiday Craft magazine (I think August 2009) for this fun craft. The pattern was in the Holiday Craft magazine. It was a pretty fast and fun craft I put it together in 2 days. The pattern said to use wool felt, but where I live fabric like that is hard to find. The stores only had basic colors. So I decided to use cotton and minke for the tooth. I think it turn out pretty good. It was so fun I decided to make my own pattern for a turkey pillow. I am working on a snowman one so come back and check it out.