Oct 22
Total Time 1 hour Ages school-age
Looking for a festive decoration for your home this Halloween? Try conjuring up a few of these flapping craft foam creatures.
What you'll need
- Bat templates (download them here)
- Black craft foam
- Red sequins
- Black paper fasteners (or brass fasteners colored with permanent black marker)
- 10-inch piece of string or dental floss
- Short piece of ribbon
- A bead (optional)
How to make it
Click here to download a printable version of the flapping bat. To view the .pdf file, you'll need Acrobat Reader which is available for free from the Adobe site.
Cut 1 body shape and 2 matching wing shapes from black craft foam, punching holes where indicated. Glue red sequins to the head for eyes.
To attach the wings to the body, align the hole farthest from the rounded end of each wing with a shoulder hole. Use black paper fasteners (or brass fasteners colored with permanent black marker) to loosely attach the wings to the back of the body, as shown.
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Next, thread one end of a 10-inch piece of string or dental floss through the remaining wing holes and tie it in a loose loop, making sure the free end extends beyond the bat's head. Tie a bead to the end of the string, if you like.
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Tie a piece of ribbon through the hole at the bottom of the bat, then hang him upside down on a wall or window. To make the bat's wings flap, pull the hanging string.
Oct 22
Total Time 1 hour Ages school-age
Stationed on a walkway or porch, these homemade lanterns will extend a ghostly greeting and good-bye to all your holiday visitors.
What you'll need
- Clean plastic gallon milk jugs
- Black permanent marker
- Craft knife
- String of 50 clear low-wattage holiday lights
How to make it
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Draw ghost eyes and mouths on the jugs. Tip: Leave the caps on while you do this, so the jugs don't dent.
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Use the craft knife to cut a half-dollar-size hole in the back of each jug (a parent's job).
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Arrange the ghosts near each other and string the lights between them, stuffing several bulbs into each of the jugs.
Oct 19
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Oct 19
When you purchase a pumpkin for your Halloween jack-o-lantern, buy an extra one and make these light-yellow cookies.
Yield: Makes 4 dozen.
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup pumpkin, steamed, drained, and mashed
- 2-1/2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. Cream sugar and shortening, beat in eggs and vanilla, and stir in pumpkin. Sift dry ingredients and stir into pumpkin mixture. Add raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake about 15 minutes.
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