Take strips of newspaper and soak in paper mache. Cover
entire balloon
and allow to dry over night. You may do as in the
Great Ghost idea
and cover entire balloon in large sheets of paper or
instead hang white streamers from the underside of the balloon. Paint the
balloon white
and draw on eyes or paint eyes. Attach string to top
for hanging.
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Black yarn
Small square of cardboard
Black pipe cleaners
Googly eyes
Red construction paper
Glue
Wind yard around and around cardboard square until heavily
covered.
Using a small piece of yarn tie securely at the center,
cut edges and
remove the cardboard. Insert three pipe cleaners into
the knotted
center and bend to form legs. Glue on eyes if desired,
or cut out eyes
from red paper. Use thread or yarn to hang spider.
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Cardboard egg carton
Black pipe cleaners
Black tempera paint, marker or crayon
Red construction paper
Glue
Thread or yarn
Using paint, marker or crayons, color the cup sections
of the egg carton.
Cut each egg cup apart. Push pipe cleaner legs into egg
cup and bend
to shape legs. Cut red paper and glue on for eyes. Use
thread or yarn to hang.
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Tissue paper
Cotton ball
Rubber band
String
Place tissue paper over a cotton ball and secure under
ball with rubber
band. Draw eyes on with marker. Tie a string around neck
and hang
or use as a finger puppet by hooking over a finger with
rubber band.
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Plaster of Paris bandage (available at pharmacies)
Vaseline
Water
Cut strips of Plaster of Paris bandages about 2-inch
lengths. Grease your face
or friends face well with Vaseline (tie hair back). Dip
strips into bowl of
water, one by one, and squeeze out all water before applying
to face. Repeat
strip by strip, overlapping by about ½ inch. Smooth
out the strips as you go.
Leave breathing holes and eye openings.
The entire process should take 10 to 12 minutes from
Vaseline application
until peeling off face. The mask will separate from face
as it dries. In about
15 to 20 minutes the mask will be ready for painting
and decorating as
desired.
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Trick or Treat Bags
Brown paper lunch bags
Felt-tip markers
Halloween stickers
Cutout pumpkins, ghosts, bats, cats
Glue
Decorate the brown paper bags with assorted Halloween
designs. Larger
brown paper grocery bags can be decorated and used for
trick or treating.
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Fold filter into a pleat on each side ( like a teabag
), add about a
tablespoon of herb mixture into bag. Fold over neatly,
and staple
string to bag. Make a small tag listing ingredients (get
as creative as
you like) and staple tag to other end of string.
Drop into bath water, relax and enjoy.
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Combine dry ingredients. Combine almond oil,vitamin E
and fragranced
oil, mix into dry ingredients. Take tsp sized blobs and
form into balls
with your fingers. ( Mixture is VERY crumbly,so do best
you can).
Place these on wax paper and let harden for 2 to 3 hours,
then re-shape
again. Let dry completely,about 10 days. Store in an
air tight container.
To use:-drop 1 or 2 into bath,lie back and enjoy!
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Place all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix. In a glass
bowl combine the oil
(melted), then add fragrance and colourant.
Slowly add the wet mixture to the dry, and mix to combine.
Shape as desired.
Let bombs dry and harden for 1 to 2 days,the longer the
better.
Multiply recipe by 8 for 12 muffin sized bombs.
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