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Easy to Make Halloween Craft Ideas

  • April 18, 2010 3:21 am
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Hobbies and crafts are very popular activities these days and what better time then Halloween to get creative. In this article we look at some simple craft ideas for Halloween you can create your self or you can involve the children and use some of the Halloween ideas for them.

Creating craft ideas with kids

Kids like to create their own scary props and they also like to make things that are in season. So with Easter let them help with coloring the eggs, and other themed crafts and with Halloween its great to let them help out with making the decorations. But there are also great Halloween coloring pages if you need something quick to keep them busy.

Most of the things you need for Halloween ideas for kids you will probably already have in your house and the things you do need to buy will not be expensive at all. Just choose crafts that are simple enough for their age to handle and they will be fine. Make sure you put down a lot of old newspapers for them to work on and prevent a mess.

Have fun and safe money with Halloween craft ideas

Homemade Halloween crafts are a great way to decorate your home in an inexpensive way. For the best craft ideas you usually don’t need to go out and buy anything special. Even if you do need to buy something it will probably not cost much. When you need to buy all sorts of decorations you will need to spend a lot of money and some will never look quit as good then when you would put some effort in yourself. In the end it will all depend on the amount of time you want to spend in making all those different craft ideas for Halloween.

Halloween craft idea #1: make party invitations with your kids

Something you can make as simple or difficult as you like are invitation for your own Halloween party. You can make them yourself, make them with the kids or with the right preparations you can let the kids make them all by themselves. Making their own invitations is something most kids will love to do. A very simple idea is to trace around the hands on a brown or mustard yellow card for monsters, or green cards for witches. Silver or white cards can be used for ghost hands. The kids can stick on fingernails made from paper. Best thing is to let them be creative but you can give them hints and let them make the monster nails black or gray and witches nails can be made more colorful. Let the kids decorate the hands in their own way and let them imagine how ghost, witch or monster hands look like. When they are all done you can write the invitation on the back side.

Halloween craft idea #2: make party invitations for adults

If you are you planning an adult party however, then you should put some more effort in these Halloween craft ideas because every party starts with a great invitation. There are many ways to create great Halloween party invitations but its best to make them personal, they need to be scary and in theme but they also need to say something about the kind of party you are giving. If it is just a social gathering with friends the card should look different then when you are planning a full costume party in your fully decorated haunted house. Can you imagine the ideas you can come up with for the last one?

Easy to Make Halloween Craft Ideas

Easy Halloween Cake Decorating Ideas: Ghoulishly Fun Ways to …

  • March 22, 2010 9:21 pm


Ghoulishly Fun Ways to Decorate Great Cakes

Oct 9, 2009Anna Sanclement

Parties are largely about the food and having great treats for the guests will determine the success of the celebration. Halloween is no exception; it’s the one day of the year where food preparation has no limits.

A wonderful dessert is a great way to make sure the party is a hit. an excellent way to accomplish this is by having a greatly decorated Halloween cake.

Baking a cake is not very hard, all that is needed is a basic cake recipe and a yummy filling. once that is done then comes the fun part of decorating the cake.

Let’s start with the cake recipe, tailored for Halloween with some added coloring, then following that there will be three easy ideas for Halloween cake decorating.

Basic Cake Recipe

  • 3 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup butter (or applesauce equivalent)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar (or brown sugar)
  • 1 egg
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • Dash of salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • A few drops of orange food coloring – or yellow and red (enough to make cake mix a nice orange color)
  • Dark chocolate filling or Nutella
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix the sugar, butter, eggs and milk in a large bowl until creamy. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla, then mix well with a whisk or an electric beater. Mix the orange food coloring into the batter, a couple of drops at a time, until a Halloween orange is achieved. Pour into buttered cake pan and bake for about 30-35 minutes.
  2. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes then take out and lay on a metal rack until completely cooled. Slice the cake horizontally in half and spread the dark chocolate or Nutella filing thickly on the bottom layer, place the top layer back on.

The cake is now ready to be decorated!

Frankenstein Face Cake

  • Green, white and brown (chocolate) frosting (green can be made using white frosting and food coloring)
  • Chocolate icing (in a tube)
  • Plastic button eyes (available at most craft stores)
  • 2 extra big metal screws
  1. Cover the cake with the green frosting. Using a piping bag draw some uneven ‘bangs’ with the brown frosting. then draw a thick ‘uni-brow’ right under the bangs. Place the two button eyes close together under the eyebrows.
  2. For the nose use two black dots. Next, for the mouth, draw a big filed in rectangle with the white frosting. then, use the chocolate icing to draw the lines for the teeth. Draw a couple of scars on each side of the face also with the chocolate icing and, lastly, insert a screw on each side of the Frankenstein cake face.

Graveyard Cake

  • Brown frosting (or white frosting with food coloring)
  • Crumbled chocolate cookies
  • Lady finger cookies (or any vanilla cookie that has a long shape)
  • Candy corns and candy pumpkins
  • Chocolate icing
  • Cool Whip or whipped cream
  1. Cover the cake with brown frosting, and then spread the crumbled chocolate cookies on top of it (like ‘dirt’). then, write messages such as ‘RIP’, ‘Here Lies Jason’ or draw simple crosses on the long vanilla cookies and scatter on top of cake to make ‘tombstones’. Sprinkle the ‘ground’ with the candy corns and pumpkins.
  2. Use the cool Whip to spray little ghosts on the ‘graveyard’ and draw the eyes and nose with the chocolate icing.

Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Cake

  • Orange, green and yellow frosting (or make your own by using white frosting and food coloring)
  • Chocolate icing
  1. Draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin with the yellow frosting on the cake. Outline them with the chocolate frosting. Cover the rest of the cake with the orange frosting using a knife to get in-between the small spaces.
  2. Draw the pumpkin lines with the chocolate icing from top to bottom in an arc motion.then, using the green frosting draw some leaves on top of the pumpkin; an optional stem can be placed on top as well, using a thick curved stick or anything similar.

These three cakes are very easy to make and will delight all party guests. They are not complicated and will leave plenty of time for the rest of the party decorating.

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