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You’ll Need

* Green Baseball Cap
* Green Felt
* Red Felt
* Cardboard
* Scissors
* 2 Extra Large Wiggly Eyes
* Glue
* Green T-shirt

Directions:

Cut two circles that are larger than the wiggly eyes out of the cardboard. Cover both sides with the green felt.

Glue one wiggly eye on each piece of felt covered cardboard. Glue these eyes to the front of the baseball cap up high.

Cut a red tongue out of felt and glue it to the underside of the bill of the cap. Make sure the tongue sticks out some.

Your child can dress in the green t-shirt and the frog cap and pretend to be a frog.

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“I’ll get you, my pretty!” These infamous words were spoken by the wicked witch in the beloved movie “The Wizard of Oz.” If your daughter wants to be the good witch, Glenda, on Halloween, or would like to portray the wicked witch, here are some ideas on how to make either homemade costume.

Let’s begin with the good witch. Basically all you need is a white dress, white leotards, white shoes, a tiara, and a wand. Add some make-up and glitter and you have all you need to re-create Glenda.

To make the wand, you can use two straws and put one inside the other. Wrap it in gold paper and purchase star wire at your craft store, and push it through the straw. Add glitter to the star as well. To make the tiara, you can also use star wire. Take the measurement of your child’s head and then make a circle out of the star wire to fit. Add gold ribbon to cover the base of the wire.

In addition, you may wish to add a flowing gold wrap around your daughter’s shoulders. Choose sheer fabric that has gold design.

If your child chooses to be the bad and spooky witch, well there is no end to the creativity you can utilize to make this costume. Depending upon whether your child wants to portray a scary witch, in which case you will have to paint some warts on her face. You can even paint your child’s face green, just like the witch in the “Wizard of Oz.” Or if she wants to be the wicked witch with a broom, a black cape and pointy black hat will be needed. An entirely black outfit would be recommended for any bad witch to wear.

Here’s another tip: If your child wants to be a witch from the Snow White movie, she can carry a basket of apples, with one a chunk of one apple cut out.

No matter which witch your child chooses to be on Halloween, making the costume will be as much fun as going out trick or treating.

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You’ll Need

* Acorns
* Orange and green paint

Directions:

Lay acorns on a sheet of newspaper. Paint the bottom of the acorns with orange paint.

After the orange paint dries, paint the top of the acorns green (for the stem of the pumpkin). Allow to dry thoroughly.

Tip – Use a black marker with a very fine tip to draw eyes and a mouth on the painted acorn to turn it into a tiny jack-o-lantern.

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You’ll Need

* Orange Construction Paper
* Black craft paint
* White craft paint
* Paintbrush
* Black Yarn
* Newspaper

Directions:

Lay out the newspaper to protect your work area. Put down a piece of orange construction paper. Paint the inside of your child’s hands with plenty of black paint. Make sure to cover all fingers. Ask your child to make handprints with his or her fingers spread out, slightly overlapping the palms. The Palms will form the spiders body, while the fingers create the spiders legs. Glue a piece of yarn so it comes out of the spider body and out of the picture like the spiders string. If you’d like you can even draw part of her web in a corner of the picture. Use the white paint to draw the spiders eyes on after the black paint has dried.

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You’ll Need

* Ice cream bucket,
* Construction paper,
* Markers, crayons, glue, glitter (any craft supplies)

Directions:

Use construction paper to draw ghosts, pumpkins, scarecrows, etc. Cut out your decorations and glue them to the outside of an ice cream bucket. Use the markers to write your child’s name on the bucket.
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Making a mummy costume for Halloween can be hilarious. However, if you wan it to truly be a unique and authentic mutmmy costume, here are some ideas you  can try.

There are several ways you can make the costume. Using strips from a white sheet and wrapping the mummy with them is one idea. You can adhere them using white medical tape. Leave the eyes, nose, and mouth uncovered, but use a light brown powder to cover the areas of skin exposed. You can use eyeliner to add under the eyes, like the Egyptians.

Another method you can use is to have your child wear a white body suit and leotards. Then add the strips of a white sheet and hold them in place with the medical tape. But if you want to add authenticity, you can cut the strips from the sheet the night before and soak them in brewed tea. This will give the entire mummy look an aged appearance. In addition, you may want to fray some of the strips so that the mummy will look quite old as well.

In addition, if you have ever seen any of the Discovery Channel programs on recent mummy finds in Egypt, you will notice that while most of the mummies are covered, there are portions of their bodies which are exposed. Well, you can take some brown magic marker and outline a few ribs, or the upper and bottom row of teeth. In addition, you can use black magic marker to give the appearance that certain body parts are missing, giving the illusion there are holes in the body.

Mummies have been around for thousands of years, and making a homemade mummy costume can be as unique and authentic to the real mummies found today. The main thing is to have a great time creating it.
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You’ll Need

* Small brown paper bags
* Halloween stickers
* markers
* treats (candy, pencils, erasers, bubblegum, etc.)

Directions:

Decorate paper bags in Halloween themes using your art supplies.

Put treats inside bags.

Fold the top of the bag down and tape shut with a Halloween sticker.
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You’ll Need

* Green Construction Paper
* Scraps of Construction Paper and Felt in different colors
* Scissors
* Glue
* Markers

Directions:

Trace your child’s hands on the green construction paper and have him or her cut them out. Then cut nail shapes out of brown, tan or black construction paper and glue them on the tips of the fingers on the green construction paper hands.

Draw some black lines on the witches hands to look like veins. Let your child decorate the rest of the hands by adding decorations and even stickers to the nails, drawing warts etc.

Use the hands as a decoration for the Halloween table, stick them on the fridge or stick them in a closed door to make it look like a witch is trying to sneak in.
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You’ll Need

* White Paper Towel or Scrap of Fabric
* Black Marker
* White yarn

Directions:

Ask your child to spread out the fingers on one hand and then move the three middle fingers together, but leave the thumb and pinky spread out. The three middle fingers will make up the ghost body, while the thumb and pinky will be the arms of the ghost.

Drape the paper towel over the child’s hand. Tie a piece of string around the three middle fingers, being careful not to make it too tight. Do the same around the thumb and pinky.

Use the black marker to draw the ghost’s eyes and a mouth and the puppet is ready for a spooky puppet show.
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Nothing exemplifies Halloween more than a ghost costume. It is probably the easiest to make and can be as simple or complex as you wish. Let’s take a look at two ideas for a ghost costume for Halloween.

Traditionally, one would cut out two holes in a white sheet, for the eyes, color the outer circle of the eyes black, and just wear it as is. However, this Casper the Friendly Ghost type costume would be a bit of a problem if the sheet fell off and the child couldn’t see where he or she was going. So, here is a suggestion.

Take a white sheet and cut a large enough hole so it can fit over the child’s head. Ensure that the bottom of the sheet is short enough so the child doesn’t trip over it. Since October is a cool month, wearing white pants and a white turtleneck top would be recommended. Oh, don’t forget white shoes or sneakers. Now that the costume itself is ready to go, here comes the fun part.

Use a non-chemical white powder makeup to paint the face. Use black make up and make a complete circle carefully around the eyes. The hair is next. There are two ways you can go with this. You can either purchase a white wig, or you can spray the hair with white spray. Voila! This ghost is a winner!

The second ghost costume can be made directly from the movie “A Christmas Carol.”
How about dressing up as Marley? Using the same items as the first costume, the only difference is you will need a ball and chain to wrap around the costume.

You make a chain one using different colored pieces of construction paper. Cut the paper into strips, then take each strip and staple the ends together. Take another strip and put one end through the first and staple. If you decided to make the ball to go with the chain, you can take lots of newspaper and scrunch it up into a ball and spray paint it black. You can attach it to the chain with a piece of wire.

One more thing, instead of making the child’s hair completely white, you can use a shower cap with holes it in, and spray it white. This way, it will look a bit more authentic. Remember, Marley’s hair wasn’t all white. Also, Marley wasn’t too well kept, so you can make some holes in the white sheet and add a little black spray on the bottom as well.
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