Crafty Ideas & More

easy inexpensive Halloween Spookies

Easy to do and lots of fun. Halloween or any time.

Make your dried apple heads and sting them like garland. Hang the shruken heads around your door or place them on the table of goodies.

Dried Apple Heads
apples
whole cloves
a few grains of rice
1/2 C lemon juice
2 tsp. salt

Peel a large apple and coat with mixture of lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of salt to prevent browning. With a potato peeler or small knife carve out eye sockets, a nose, mouth and ears. Don’t worry about carving small details as they will be lost when the apple dries. Go for the big features and nature will take care of the rest.

Use whole cloves for eyes and raw rice grains for teeth (the faces also come out looking great without these extra props, just carve and let dry if you want to keep it simple).

Sit apples on a wire rack in a warm, dry place for about 2 weeks. Shape the faces as they shrink and harden. You can speed the drying process a little by drying in an oven set at the lowest temperature. However, the process will still take several days.

What are you waiting for? GO, go make them NOW!

Kids like GROSSY and YUCKY so why not give it to them.

Here are some gross looking great tasting recipes all kids big and little will enjoy.

Pigeon Poop
Made with white chocolate, mini marshmallows and pretzels, this is a yummy snack for Halloween.
INGREDIENTS:
5 cups of peanut butter crunch cereal
3 cups of Rice Krispies
2 cups of skinny pretzels/broken in half
2 lbs. of white chocolate
2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
PREPARATION:
Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl. Melt white chocolate in double boiler or microwave oven. Pour melted chocolate over the dry ingredients and spread out on wax paper to cool. Break into chunks.

Vampire’s Blood Shake
This blood-red shake is healthy and fun for your kids at Halloween.
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups plain yogurt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 package frozen starwberries or raspberries, thawed
ice cubes
1 pint strawberry ice cream
PREPARATION:
Mix yogurt, vanilla, and berries in the blender. Pour into tall glasses over ice cubes and top with a large spoonful of strawberry ice cream.

Kitty Litter Cake
1 spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 white cake mix
2 large pkg vanilla instant pudding mix, prepared (I like Bird’s® dessert mix)
1 large pkg vanilla sandwich cookies
green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls®

1 new kitty litter pan
1 new plastic kitty litter pan liner
1 new pooper scooper

Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans).

Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble.

Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in food processor, scraping often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix until completely colored.

When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. Important: mix in just enough of the pudding to moisten it. You don’t want it too soggy. Combine gently.

Line a new, clean kitty litter box. Put the cake/pudding/cookie mixture into the litter box.

Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls bury them in the mixture. Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly on top of everything — this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.

Heat 3 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake; sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Spread remaining Tootsie Rolls over the top; take one and heat until pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box, sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs. Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around for a truly disgusting effect!

Sewer Soda Recipe
1 quart Chocolate chocolate chip ice cream
3/4 cup Chocolate syrup
1 liter Club soda
tootsie rolls

Directions:
Let ice cream sit at room temperature untilit is easy to scoop.
Spoon ice cream into glasses until it is about halfway full. Pour or squeeze about 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup into each glass.
Slowly fill almost to the top with club soda and stir well with a spoon. Serve with a straw and tall spoon for excavating those luscious brown lumps.
Plop an unwrapped tootsie roll into each glass.

This recipe for Sewer Soda serves/makes 4

Edible Spiders
Royal Icing
16 oz powdered sugar (icing sugar)
3 egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
Beat until peaks firmly hold their shape, and the more you beat it, the firmer it gets.
Add black paste food coloring to get it as dark as possible
Form the icing into spider shapes on waxed paper. VERY FRAGILE but harden quickly.

FOR THE ADULT PARTY –

Savory Brain Shrimp Spread
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
8 ounces Philadelphia cream cheese, softened
1 (.25-ounce) envelope unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 cup water
1 bunch green onions, chopped
3 pounds cooked shrimp, coarsely chopped
(or 1 pound crab meat)
1 cup mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
Tabasco or creole seasoning to taste

Heat soup, undiluted, and mix in the cream cheese. Stir in softened gelatin and blend well. Fold in remaining ingredients and pour into a lightly-oiled brain mold. Chill until firm and serve with your favorite crackers.

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Cheap Halloween decorating ideas – kid friendly

Grocery Bag Ghost

Everyone loves free stuff and these are FREE to make!!!

Materials

- 2 white plastic grocery bags
- Scissors
- Black magic marker
- White thread and a needle

Instructions
Cut the handles off of one grocery bag. Save them.

If the bag has any store markings on the front, cut off the front of the bag.

Roll the second grocery bag and the front from the first grocery bag, into a ball. Place this into the center of the first grocery bag and bring the edges together to form the head.

Using one of the bag handles, wrap it around the head and tie into a knot. Fluff out the ends of the handle to form arms.

Use the magic marker to make eyes and mouth.

With threaded needle, insert needle through the head (into both bags so thread won’t pull out) to form a string to hang your ghost.

Make several to hang around the house or on the trees outside as yard decorations!

Fun for everyone to make and hang out on the tree!

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Boogers On A Stick – Just in time for Halloween

Don’t you just love the goofy gross Halloween recipes and ideas you can find? Well, I had to share this one with all of you! Enjoy!

Boogers On A Stick
Great for any halloween party!!!
Kids and adults will love it!

8 oz Jar cheez whiz
Green food coloring
25 To 30 pretzel sticks

Waxed paper
Long handled spoon
Platter

Melt the cheeze whiz in the microwave or on top of the stove, according to directions on the jar.

Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar.

Using a long handled spoon, carefully stir about three drops of green food coloring into the warm cheese, using just enough to turn the cheese a delicate snot green.

To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each pretzel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach an appealingly boogerish size, set pretzels, booger down, onto a sheet of waxed paper.

Allow finished boogers on a stick to cool at room temperature for ten minutes or until cheese is firm.

Gently pull boogers off waxed paper and arrange on a serving platter. Serves 5 to 6 booger buddies.

Sicko Serving Suggestion: Place a bowl of chunky red salsa in the center of the platter so that guests can turn plain buggers into bloody ones.

From the Book: Gross Grub by Cheryl Porter Random House ISBN 0-679-86693-0
Shared by Carolyn Shaw 10-95

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