Cheap Halloween Ideas

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From Dollar Stretcher...

Halloween on a Dime
by Tawra Kellam
Frighteningly frugal fun!

The average American family spends over $100 per year on
Halloween goodies. As your kids drag you through aisles full
of ghosts and goblins, the scariest thing about Halloween is
threatening to leave bite marks in your pocketbook. No wonder
so many moms flee screaming from the store. It can be much
less expensive and a lot more fun to devise your own chilling
creations. Here are a few tips that you can use to stave off
the greenback gremlins and exercise your creative muscle. It
won't hurt a bit! These and other free frugal tips are
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Face Paint

1 tsp. corn starch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream
food coloring

Mix all ingredients together in an old muffin pan and you are
ready to paint. This amount makes one color.

Fake Wound

1 Tbsp. Vaseline
tissue
cocoa powder
2-3 drops red food coloring

Place Vaseline in a bowl. Add food coloring. Blend with a
toothpick. Stir in a pinch of cocoa to make a darker blood
color. Separate tissue. Using 1 layer, tear a 2x3 inch piece
and place at wound site. Cover with petroleum jelly and mold
into the shape of a wound. The center should be lower than the
sides. Fill the center with the red petroleum jelly mixture.
Sprinkle center with some cocoa. Sprinkle a little around the
edges of the wound to make darker.

Fake Blood - Mix 2/3 cup white corn syrup, 1 tsp. red food
coloring, 2-3 drops blue food coloring to darken and 1 squirt
dish soap (helps blood to run well).

Abrasions - Dab brown, red and black eye shadow on area.
Apply blood over area with cotton balls. Use comb to gently
scratch area in one direction. Apply cocoa or dirt over wound
with cotton balls.

Black Eye - Apply red and blue eye shadow to depressions
around eyes.

Bruises - Rub red and blue shadow over bony area to simulate
recent bruises. Use blue and yellow eye shadow to create older
bruises.

Look Old - Cover face with baby powder. Draw dark lines on
your skin for wrinkles. Smooth edges to blend. Cover again
with baby powder. Add baby powder to your hair to create gray
hair.

Deviled Eyeballs - Make deviled eggs. Add a green olive with
pimento in the center for an "eyeball."

Radioactive Juice - Mix equal parts Mountain Dew and blue
Kool-Aid.

Toxic Juice - Add some green food coloring to lemonade for a
spooky color!

Brains - Scramble eggs with some green, yellow and blue food
coloring.
Bloody Eyeballs - Boil cherry tomatoes 30 seconds. Allow to
cool; then peel skin.

Goblin Hand - Freeze green Kool-Aid in a rubber or latex
glove, float in punch.

Spider Webs - Use the tape from old cassettes or black yarn
to make spider webs. Use cotton balls stretched out for small
spider webs.

Glass Jack-o-Lantern - Outline a pumpkin face on a spaghetti
or pickle jar with black paint. Then paint around the outside
of it with orange paint. Place a candle inside for a jack-o-
lantern.

Halloween Guess It Game - In this game, you challenge the
participants to reach into mystery boxes filled with creepy
things and try to guess what each item is. The person with the
most correct answers wins the game. An example is if you want
them to guess "grapes," you might try to confuse them by
saying, "I think it's eyeballs..."

Cut a hole in the top of a shoe box or laundry box for each
item to be used. Cover the box with black spray paint.
Decorate each box with pumpkins or spiders for a more festive
flavor.

Place the following items inside, one per box. Be sure to
place enough of each item so the guests can adequately "feel"
the guts. For eyeballs, use grapes or peeled cherry tomatoes.
For intestines, try cooked spaghetti. When you oil a piece of
plastic bag, it feels just like skin. For brains, use
scrambled eggs. Simulate hair with an old clown wig. For
bones, use thoroughly washed chicken bones placed in some
sand. Chunky salsa could be used for vomit. For fingers, use
hot dogs cut into finger-sized pieces. Finally, corn nuts,
pine nuts or popcorn can be use for teeth.

Have a Pumpkin Hunt - Hide mini pumpkins like you would
Easter Eggs. Let the kids find and decorate them. For small
children, use glue sticks with construction paper cut-outs for
decorations.

Edible Slime - Pour lime gelatin into a glass bowl. After it
is partially set, add gummy worms. Chill until lightly set.
Then serve slopped all over the plate.

Bloody Popcorn - Add red food color to melted butter and
pour over popcorn.

For the final frightening treat, freeze gummy worms in ice
cubes and add them to drinks. Cut gummy worms in half if
needed.


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COOOOL! Really great ideas! I have always liked Halloween for the creative side making costumes and such. I absolutely HATE Halloween when it comes to going to the store and buying an expensive costume. Even the cheap costumes are expensive for one night IMO. These ideas brought back all the fun ideas!! I may have to make some brains and eyeballs for my boys. LOL


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