•Halloween Chain *Orange and Black construction paper Cut orange and black strips of paper, three to four inches long and one-half inch wide. Form a circle with one strip and glue or staple ends. Take next strip and loop it through first circle, again glueing or stapling ends. Continue on making as long as you like, alternating colours. •Tombstones *Styrofoam sheets *Thick Black Marker Cut Styrofoam shapes into shape of tombstone. Write epitaph on Styrofoam with black marker. Prop up against doorways or walls. •Eye Masks *Inexpensive eye masks *Sequins *Feathers *Buttons *Dried beans Have kids attach a variety of items on hand to the masks with glue to make their own decorated eye masks. •Monster Masks *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 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. •Halloween table cloth *White paper table cloth *Sponges *Tempera acrylic paint *Markers * Stickers *Halloween cutouts On white paper tablecloth decorate with assorted shapes cut from sponges. Glue on Halloween cutouts or stickers. •Creepy spiders *Crab shells •Black spray paint Purchase crab shells at a local market. Spray paint black and use as decorations on Halloween night. •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. •Bone mobile ~Bone shaped dog biscuits ~White spray paint ~String ~Coat hanger Spray paint dog biscuits white on both sides. Once dry tie together with string in a variety of patterns. Hang from coathangers or crossed dowels. •Barnyard Bash Invitations: Cut out animal shapes on construction paper and write the party information on these. Hand deliver to your guests. Decorations: bales of hay, bunches of dried cornstalks, autumn leaves, pumpkins, gourds, dried corn cobs. Serve food in western bandanas attached to sticks. Be sure to make a scarecrow. Carved out pumpkins make great serving dishes or chip bowls. •Witches, Wizards and Goblins Invitations: Buy several cheap plastic magic wants. Print out invitations on white paper with important information. Scroll up around want. Tie with orange and black ribbon. Hand deliver to guests. Decorations: String Christmas lights around the entrance way. Hang silver and gold stars through out the party area. Mylar gold and silver balloons can also be hung. Cut out ghost shapes in Mylar and hang. Glow-in-the-dark tape attached to walls, doors, lamps etc. is nice when lights are low. Grave markers can be made from Styrofoam sheets - use felt-tip markers to make inscription. •Cats and Bats Invitations: Cut out the shape of cats or bats in construction paper. Write important party info on these. Hand deliver to invited guests. Decorations: Have guests enter through a cat door (place a dark blanket over half the doorway and let guests crawl through). Hang black crepe paper and cobwebs everywhere. Hang black silhouettes of cats and bats throughout the house. Black balloons are a nice touch. •Monster Mash Invitations: Buy inexpensive eye masks at party store. Write important party information on mask and hand deliver to guests. Decorations: Bats hung everywhere! Make a coffin out of cardboard and leave at entrance way for kids jackets etc. to be placed inside. Hang black and green crepe paper or streamers. •Nightmare at the Haunted House Invitations: Cut out tombstone shapes on construction paper. Write party info in the form of an epitaph. Hand deliver to guests. Decorations: Hang spider webs, plastic insects, phony tombstones, ghosts, balloons, witches and bats. Use back and white candles (out of reach of children). Hang ghosts made from white pillow cases. Use white balloons with black eyes drawn on them with markers. Ask florist to save dead flowers and wreaths that would be thrown away. Create a headless heathen by stuffing old clothes with newspaper and prop up at front door. Dry ice makes a special affect at these parties. • TRICK OR TREAT CHANT Knock, knock Trick or treat Knock, then knock some more. Knock, knock Truck or treat Let's see who's at the door! IDEA: You could do this as a Halloween game. A few children could leave the room, and , one at a time, knock on the door and come back in. They could be hidden with a sheet and respond: "It is I at your door!" The children could then guess the Friendly Ghost by his/her voice. •Jack-O'-Lantern with Glowing Eyes Carve your pumpkin as you would normally, then place sections of a lime with rind removed in the eye cut-outs. With a lit candle inside the eyes will glow green. • Take a Trip to a Pumpkin Patch Going to the pumpkin patch is always fun for little ones! Help your child observe how the pumpkin is growing on the vine. Point out the variations in color, size, shape, quality and weight. • Pumpkin Custard Make pumpkin custard from the meat of the pumpkin. Use recipe for pumpkin pie filling, pour in custard cups, place in a baking pan. Fill pan with one inch of hot water. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. • Halloween Costuming Costumes for toddlers and preschoolers should be of the non-frightening nature, such as pumpkins, cats, cartoon characters or painted faces. Young children are unable to tell what is real or unreal, so they can be very uncomfortable wearing or being confronted by ghosts, goblins and witches. Masks are not recommended for young children due to their visual obstructions, and quite oftenpumpkins, cats, cartoon characters • Feed the Spider This is a revised version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. On a large piece of white butcher paper or tag board, draw a spider web with a black felt pen. Draw a large spider on the web, at a place of your choosing. Cut out various shapes of green, brown, orange or yellow contruction paper for bugs. Allow the children to decorate their own bugs with crayons or felt pens. (You can also use Creepy Crawlers TM.) Place a piece of double stick tape on the underside of the bug. Explain to the children how they will be blind-folded and will try to feed the spider with the bug, and that the bug closest to the spider will win a prize. It is usually best to demonstrate with an older child first. • Have You Seen.....? sung to "The Muffin Man" Have you seen the pumpkin man, The pumpkin man, the pumkin man Have you seen the pumpkin man, Who lives in the pumpkin patch? Have you seen the old black witch, The old black witch, the old black witch, Have you seen the old black witch, Who lives in the haunted house? Have you seen the scary ghost, The scary ghost, the scary ghost, Have you seen the scary ghost, Who lives in the old ghost town? Have you seen the big black bat, The big black bat, the big black bat, Have you seen the big black bat, Who lives in the cold dark cave? Yes, we have. We've seen these things, Seen these things, seen these things, Yes, we have, we've seen these things, We saw them on Hallowe'en! • PROJECT PUMPKIN Convert your classroom into a pumpkin paradise; then provide lots of opportunities for your young P.I.'s and Pumpkin Investigators to explore and experience pumpkins! • Pumpkin Muffins 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar or honey 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup canned pumpkin 1/4 cup melted butter 1/2 tsp nutmeg Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease the muffin pans. Measure and mix the ingredients. Batter should be lumpy. FIll the cups 2/3 full and sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon sugar over each muffin. bake 18-20 minutes. Makes 12. • Pumpkin Punch Scoop out the inside of a large pumpkin. Put a mixing bowl inside. Fill the bowl with apple cider, orange punch or any other beverage. • Orange Milk Sherbet 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 3 cups milk 2 cups half & half 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup orange juice 1/4 cup lemon juice 3/4 tsp salt yellow & red food coloring. In a saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over 1 cup of the milk. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin dissolves.Set aside. In a large bowl, combine the rest of the milk with the remaining ingredients. Gradually stir in gelatin mixture. Pour into cake pans, cover with foil. • Paper Plate Owl Need: paper plates (the kind with the ridged edges), circles of orange construction paper for eyes. V-shaped pieces of orange construction paper for bills & claws, a magic marker, brown tempera paint, & glue. Using the magic marker, draw cutting lines on each paper plate at 10, 2, 5 and 7 O'clock, & along the inner edge of the ridges (these will be the wings). Have the children cut their plates on the lines, then have them paint the pieces of the paper plate with brown tempera paint and let dry. Staple the owl's wings to the bodies for the children (or use brads for more moveable wings). Have the children glue the eyes, beaks & claws onto their owls. • Wise owl Glue the following on blue or black paper or fabric: 1/2 walnut shell for body, curly pretzel for head, 2 beans for eyes, straight pretzel for perch, two round oat cereal pieces for claws, a red bean for a beak. • Witches' Hats Bugles brand snack spread cheese round crackers Spread cheese on crackers. Top each cracker off with a bugle to complete the effect. • Garbage Bag Ghost large white garbage bag permanent black marker newspaper strong string Stuff one corner of a large white garbage bag with crumpled newspaper to form a head. Twist shut,folding other corner down and secure with string. Draw a face on the ghost with permanent markers. Let face dry. Cut bottom part of bag into 3-4" wide strips. Attach string to top of head with wide tape; knotting string so it doesn't pull out. Make lots and hang them indoors or out.*Please note: please be careful of plastic bags around small children. No one should ever put a plastic bag over their own or anyone else's head or use this craft as a "costume" . • Halloween has come at last. Witches goblins big black cats. Funny faces round about people laugh and people shout....BOO! • Up against the moon so high see the ugly witches fly Pumpkin faces laugh at me I'm as scared as I can be. • There was a small witch on a Halloween night who wanted to see if her hat was on right she looked in the mirror and gave a loud scream for she really looked like a very bad dream. • Jack'olantern...jackolantern you are such a funny sight As you sit by the window looking out at the night You were once an orange pumpkin growing on a slender vine Now you are a jackolantern see the candle light shine. •Halloween Candy Holder This is a great craft that the children can use to go trick or treating with, or you can use it as a decoration. Take a large can (coffee can, spaghetti sauce can..) & wash thoroughly, making sure to remove all outside paper & stickiness. Paint the can with one coat of white paint & let dry.  Then paint the can with a coat of orange paint - let dry.  Then either with black paint, or a black marker draw the face of a jack-o-lantern on the can.  Punch two holes into the top edges of the can on opposite sides. (Use a hammer and nail) Tie string or twine to make a handle.   Optional: Use smaller cans, fill them with candy & stuff & use them as party favors at a Halloween party. • Wise Owl Cut an owl from brown and tan construction paper. Make eyes from orange & yellow pieces of construction paper. Tear up small pieces of newspaper & glue to the chest area for a mottled feather look. • A fistful of ghosts With a flick of the wrist, a handprint becomes a ghost! Make a paint pad from a folded, wet paper towel & white paint. Press the little finger side of the hand onto the pad & then onto background paper with a bit of a swish. The little finger makes a head & the bottom of the hand creates the ghost! • Hand print bats: Paint both hands & put side by side (Bat wings). Add googly eyes. • Foot print ghost: Paint foot & add eyes • Egg carton spiders: Use paper machie egg carton, cut one egg holder out & paint black, insert pipe cleaner legs. We discuss numbers 1-8 • Oreo cookie spiders: Use oreo cookie for a body & licorice legs to the cream filling part of the cookie. •JACK-O-LANTERN JAR Use a large glass jar, the big fat pickle jars are best for this. paint the jar orange with poster paint, then add eyes and other features using black electrical tape. Put a candle in it and you have a pretty jack-o-lantern to set in the window. • JACK-O-LANTERN JELLO Slice the top off an orange and scoop out pulp. Cut eyes, nose and mouth in orange so that it looks like a jack-o-lantern. Fill with orange jello. • MARGARINE TUB JACK-O-LANTERN Cover a small margarine tub, with the lid on, with orange crepe paper. Turn on side using flat top for face. Make face by gluing on black paper features. • NAPKIN GHOSTS Take two white paper napkins. Roll one into a ball and place it in the center of the opened flat napkin. Gather up flat napkin around ball making head of ghost. Tie a string around neck of ghost and hang from ceilling or in front of windows. • NAPKIN GHOST TREAT For a treat, wrap the napkin around a sucker or Tootsie Pop tying a string under candy to form head and dot two eyes with a felt tip pen. •PAPER BAG MASKS Very simple or very elaborate masks can be made from grocery bags. Start with crayons, markers, scissors and glue, and let your imagination go wild. • WITCHES BREW Put dry ice in punch on halloween and it will make it smoke like a real witches' brew. The kids love it. We even put dry ice in our swimming pool one year - it gave it a very eerie, swampy atmosphere. • The Witch Rides Tonight-- Game (tune; Farmer in Dell) The witch rides tonight The witch rides tonight Heigh-ho, it's Halloween The witch rides tonight! The witch takes a cat... The cat takes a bat... The bat takes a spider... The spider takes a goblin... The goblin takes a skeleton... The skeleton takes a ghost... The ghost scares them all... • This Old Ghost (tune; This Old Man) also use obvious actions This old ghost, he played one, He played peek-a-boo on the run With a boo! boo! boo! and a clap, clap, clap This old ghost is a friendly chap two: peek-a-boo in a shoe three: peek-a-boo behind a tree four: peek-a-boo near a door • Old Mother Witch Old Mother Witch is coming to town Coming to town, coming to town Old Mother Witch is coming to town So early in the morning. This is the way she rides her broom... This is the way she wears her hat... This is the way she stirs her brew... This is the way she pets her black cat... This is where she has her wart... This is how she scares you BOO... Old Mother Witch is going away... •For This Is Halloween (tune; 10 Little Indians) One little skeleton hopping up and down, One little skeleton hopping up and down, One little skeleton hopping up and down, For this is Halloween. Two little children playing trick or treat... Three little pumpkins standing in a row... Four little goblins running all around... Five little witches flying through the air... •We're Not Afraid (tune; Twinkle, Twinkle) Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats, We're not afraid of this or that. They are only make-believe, Funny costumes on Halloween. 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Form a circle with one strip and glue or staple ends. Take next strip and loop it through first circle, again glueing or stapling ends. Continue on making as long as you like, alternating colours. *Tombstones *Styrofoam sheets *Thick Black Marker Cut Styrofoam shapes into shape of tombstone. Write epitaph on Styrofoam with black marker. Prop up against doorways or walls. *Eye Masks *Inexpensive eye masks *Sequins *Feathers *Buttons *Dried beans Have kids attach a variety of items on hand to the masks with glue to make their own decorated eye masks. *Monster Masks *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 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. *Halloween table cloth *White paper table cloth *Sponges *Tempera acrylic paint *Markers * Stickers *Halloween cutouts On white paper tablecloth decorate with assorted shapes cut from sponges. Glue on Halloween cutouts or stickers. *Creepy spiders *Crab shells *Black spray paint Purchase crab shells at a local market. Spray paint black and use as decorations on Halloween night. *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. *Bone mobile ~Bone shaped dog biscuits ~White spray paint ~String ~Coat hanger Spray paint dog biscuits white on both sides. Once dry tie together with string in a variety of patterns. Hang from coathangers or crossed dowels. *Barnyard Bash Invitations: Cut out animal shapes on construction paper and write the party information on these. Hand deliver to your guests. Decorations: bales of hay, bunches of dried cornstalks, autumn leaves, pumpkins, gourds, dried corn cobs. Serve food in western bandanas attached to sticks. Be sure to make a scarecrow. Carved out pumpkins make great serving dishes or chip bowls. *Witches, Wizards and Goblins Invitations: Buy several cheap plastic magic wants. Print out invitations on white paper with important information. Scroll up around want. Tie with orange and black ribbon. Hand deliver to guests. Decorations: String Christmas lights around the entrance way. Hang silver and gold stars through out the party area. Mylar gold and silver balloons can also be hung. Cut out ghost shapes in Mylar and hang. Glow-in-the-dark tape attached to walls, doors, lamps etc. is nice when lights are low. Grave markers can be made from Styrofoam sheets - use felt-tip markers to make inscription. *Cats and Bats Invitations: Cut out the shape of cats or bats in construction paper. Write important party info on these. Hand deliver to invited guests. Decorations: Have guests enter through a cat door (place a dark blanket over half the doorway and let guests crawl through). Hang black crepe paper and cobwebs everywhere. Hang black silhouettes of cats and bats throughout the house. Black balloons are a nice touch. *Monster Mash Invitations: Buy inexpensive eye masks at party store. Write important party information on mask and hand deliver to guests. Decorations: Bats hung everywhere! Make a coffin out of cardboard and leave at entrance way for kids jackets etc. to be placed inside. Hang black and green crepe paper or streamers. *Nightmare at the Haunted House Invitations: Cut out tombstone shapes on construction paper. Write party info in the form of an epitaph. Hand deliver to guests. Decorations: Hang spider webs, plastic insects, phony tombstones, ghosts, balloons, witches and bats. Use back and white candles (out of reach of children). Hang ghosts made from white pillow cases. Use white balloons with black eyes drawn on them with markers. Ask florist to save dead flowers and wreaths that would be thrown away. Create a headless heathen by stuffing old clothes with newspaper and prop up at front door. Dry ice makes a special affect at these parties. * TRICK OR TREAT CHANT Knock, knock Trick or treat Knock, then knock some more. Knock, knock Truck or treat Let's see who's at the door! IDEA: You could do this as a Halloween game. A few children could leave the room, and , one at a time, knock on the door and come back in. They could be hidden with a sheet and respond: "It is I at your door!" The children could then guess the Friendly Ghost by his/her voice. *Jack-O'-Lantern with Glowing Eyes Carve your pumpkin as you would normally, then place sections of a lime with rind removed in the eye cut-outs. With a lit candle inside the eyes will glow green. * Take a Trip to a Pumpkin Patch Going to the pumpkin patch is always fun for little ones! Help your child observe how the pumpkin is growing on the vine. Point out the variations in color, size, shape, quality and weight. * Pumpkin Custard Make pumpkin custard from the meat of the pumpkin. Use recipe for pumpkin pie filling, pour in custard cups, place in a baking pan. Fill pan with one inch of hot water. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. * Halloween Costuming Costumes for toddlers and preschoolers should be of the non-frightening nature, such as pumpkins, cats, cartoon characters or painted faces. Young children are unable to tell what is real or unreal, so they can be very uncomfortable wearing or being confronted by ghosts, goblins and witches. Masks are not recommended for young children due to their visual obstructions, and quite oftenpumpkins, cats, cartoon characters * Feed the Spider This is a revised version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. On a large piece of white butcher paper or tag board, draw a spider web with a black felt pen. Draw a large spider on the web, at a place of your choosing. Cut out various shapes of green, brown, orange or yellow contruction paper for bugs. Allow the children to decorate their own bugs with crayons or felt pens. (You can also use Creepy Crawlers TM.) Place a piece of double stick tape on the underside of the bug. Explain to the children how they will be blind-folded and will try to feed the spider with the bug, and that the bug closest to the spider will win a prize. It is usually best to demonstrate with an older child first. * Have You Seen.....? sung to "The Muffin Man" Have you seen the pumpkin man, The pumpkin man, the pumkin man Have you seen the pumpkin man, Who lives in the pumpkin patch? Have you seen the old black witch, The old black witch, the old black witch, Have you seen the old black witch, Who lives in the haunted house? Have you seen the scary ghost, The scary ghost, the scary ghost, Have you seen the scary ghost, Who lives in the old ghost town? Have you seen the big black bat, The big black bat, the big black bat, Have you seen the big black bat, Who lives in the cold dark cave? Yes, we have. We've seen these things, Seen these things, seen these things, Yes, we have, we've seen these things, We saw them on Hallowe'en! * PROJECT PUMPKIN Convert your classroom into a pumpkin paradise; then provide lots of opportunities for your young P.I.'s and Pumpkin Investigators to explore and experience pumpkins! * Pumpkin Muffins 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar or honey 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup canned pumpkin 1/4 cup melted butter 1/2 tsp nutmeg Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease the muffin pans. Measure and mix the ingredients. Batter should be lumpy. FIll the cups 2/3 full and sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon sugar over each muffin. bake 18-20 minutes. Makes 12. * Pumpkin Punch Scoop out the inside of a large pumpkin. Put a mixing bowl inside. Fill the bowl with apple cider, orange punch or any other beverage. * Orange Milk Sherbet 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 3 cups milk 2 cups half & half 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup orange juice 1/4 cup lemon juice 3/4 tsp salt yellow & red food coloring. In a saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over 1 cup of the milk. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin dissolves.Set aside. In a large bowl, combine the rest of the milk with the remaining ingredients. Gradually stir in gelatin mixture. Pour into cake pans, cover with foil. * Paper Plate Owl Need: paper plates (the kind with the ridged edges), circles of orange construction paper for eyes. V-shaped pieces of orange construction paper for bills & claws, a magic marker, brown tempera paint, & glue. Using the magic marker, draw cutting lines on each paper plate at 10, 2, 5 and 7 O'clock, & along the inner edge of the ridges (these will be the wings). Have the children cut their plates on the lines, then have them paint the pieces of the paper plate with brown tempera paint and let dry. Staple the owl's wings to the bodies for the children (or use brads for more moveable wings). Have the children glue the eyes, beaks & claws onto their owls. * Wise owl Glue the following on blue or black paper or fabric: 1/2 walnut shell for body, curly pretzel for head, 2 beans for eyes, straight pretzel for perch, two round oat cereal pieces for claws, a red bean for a beak. * Witches' Hats Bugles brand snack spread cheese round crackers Spread cheese on crackers. Top each cracker off with a bugle to complete the effect. * Garbage Bag Ghost large white garbage bag permanent black marker newspaper strong string Stuff one corner of a large white garbage bag with crumpled newspaper to form a head. Twist shut,folding other corner down and secure with string. Draw a face on the ghost with permanent markers. Let face dry. Cut bottom part of bag into 3-4" wide strips. Attach string to top of head with wide tape; knotting string so it doesn't pull out. Make lots and hang them indoors or out.*Please note: please be careful of plastic bags around small children. No one should ever put a plastic bag over their own or anyone else's head or use this craft as a "costume" . * Halloween has come at last. Witches goblins big black cats. Funny faces round about people laugh and people shout....BOO! * Up against the moon so high see the ugly witches fly Pumpkin faces laugh at me I'm as scared as I can be. * There was a small witch on a Halloween night who wanted to see if her hat was on right she looked in the mirror and gave a loud scream for she really looked like a very bad dream. * Jack'olantern...jackolantern you are such a funny sight As you sit by the window looking out at the night You were once an orange pumpkin growing on a slender vine Now you are a jackolantern see the candle light shine. *Halloween Candy Holder This is a great craft that the children can use to go trick or treating with, or you can use it as a decoration. Take a large can (coffee can, spaghetti sauce can..) & wash thoroughly, making sure to remove all outside paper & stickiness. Paint the can with one coat of white paint & let dry. Then paint the can with a coat of orange paint - let dry. Then either with black paint, or a black marker draw the face of a jack-o-lantern on the can. Punch two holes into the top edges of the can on opposite sides. (Use a hammer and nail) Tie string or twine to make a handle. Optional: Use smaller cans, fill them with candy & stuff & use them as party favors at a Halloween party. * Wise Owl Cut an owl from brown and tan construction paper. Make eyes from orange & yellow pieces of construction paper. Tear up small pieces of newspaper & glue to the chest area for a mottled feather look. * A fistful of ghosts With a flick of the wrist, a handprint becomes a ghost! Make a paint pad from a folded, wet paper towel & white paint. Press the little finger side of the hand onto the pad & then onto background paper with a bit of a swish. The little finger makes a head & the bottom of the hand creates the ghost! * Hand print bats: Paint both hands & put side by side (Bat wings). Add googly eyes. * Foot print ghost: Paint foot & add eyes * Egg carton spiders: Use paper machie egg carton, cut one egg holder out & paint black, insert pipe cleaner legs. We discuss numbers 1-8 * Oreo cookie spiders: Use oreo cookie for a body & licorice legs to the cream filling part of the cookie. *JACK-O-LANTERN JAR Use a large glass jar, the big fat pickle jars are best for this. paint the jar orange with poster paint, then add eyes and other features using black electrical tape. Put a candle in it and you have a pretty jack-o-lantern to set in the window. * JACK-O-LANTERN JELLO Slice the top off an orange and scoop out pulp. Cut eyes, nose and mouth in orange so that it looks like a jack-o-lantern. Fill with orange jello. * MARGARINE TUB JACK-O-LANTERN Cover a small margarine tub, with the lid on, with orange crepe paper. Turn on side using flat top for face. Make face by gluing on black paper features. * NAPKIN GHOSTS Take two white paper napkins. Roll one into a ball and place it in the center of the opened flat napkin. Gather up flat napkin around ball making head of ghost. Tie a string around neck of ghost and hang from ceilling or in front of windows. * NAPKIN GHOST TREAT For a treat, wrap the napkin around a sucker or Tootsie Pop tying a string under candy to form head and dot two eyes with a felt tip pen. *PAPER BAG MASKS Very simple or very elaborate masks can be made from grocery bags. Start with crayons, markers, scissors and glue, and let your imagination go wild. * WITCHES BREW Put dry ice in punch on halloween and it will make it smoke like a real witches' brew. The kids love it. We even put dry ice in our swimming pool one year - it gave it a very eerie, swampy atmosphere. * The Witch Rides Tonight-- Game (tune; Farmer in Dell) The witch rides tonight The witch rides tonight Heigh-ho, it's Halloween The witch rides tonight! The witch takes a cat... The cat takes a bat... The bat takes a spider... The spider takes a goblin... The goblin takes a skeleton... The skeleton takes a ghost... The ghost scares them all... * This Old Ghost (tune; This Old Man) also use obvious actions This old ghost, he played one, He played peek-a-boo on the run With a boo! boo! boo! and a clap, clap, clap This old ghost is a friendly chap two: peek-a-boo in a shoe three: peek-a-boo behind a tree four: peek-a-boo near a door * Old Mother Witch Old Mother Witch is coming to town Coming to town, coming to town Old Mother Witch is coming to town So early in the morning. This is the way she rides her broom... This is the way she wears her hat... This is the way she stirs her brew... This is the way she pets her black cat... This is where she has her wart... This is how she scares you BOO... Old Mother Witch is going away... *For This Is Halloween (tune; 10 Little Indians) One little skeleton hopping up and down, One little skeleton hopping up and down, One little skeleton hopping up and down, For this is Halloween. Two little children playing trick or treat... Three little pumpkins standing in a row... Four little goblins running all around... Five little witches flying through the air... *We're Not Afraid (tune; Twinkle, Twinkle) Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats, We're not afraid of this or that. They are only make-believe, Funny costumes on Halloween. Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats, We're not afraid of this or that.