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Inexpensive and easy-to-make Halloween crafts are fun activities that kids enjoy and adults can use for some cheap Halloween home décor. We are suggesting some of the items that you can enjoy making with your kids as they learn to do things the Halloween way. These Halloween relics will be a storehouse of quality time you are spending with your kids and fun holiday moments that you will remember every time you see them. Trying something new on holidays will not make your children more artistic, creative and innovative, it will give a boost to their imagination too.

They will become better observers as they try to use things in a different way to give them a new look that resembles something they have in mind. Halloween crafts also give way to some hilarious and funny situations that make interesting family stories that you and your children can share with your grandchildren and in family gatherings later. You can create professional-looking decorative items, using simplest of techniques and most of the common household things or even trash. Children can carry some of the things they make as an accessory or a prop with their Halloween costume or as a plaything and show them off to their friends.

Wear an all green dress and put inflated green balloons all over your body with help from a friend using masking tape. Wear a long straw hat and glue leaves on its top. Become a walking-talking grape tree in just a matter of half an hour. Christmas tree is another easy costume that you can make at home this Halloween. Make a long cylinder from the green felt with holes for your hands and neck. Sew seam at the lower end of the fabric and put a hoop in the seam to give it a flared up shape. Thread a long lace in the hem on the neck and draw the strings to give the fabric a conical shape. Wear brown jeans with this and you are now ready as a basic fir tree. Use small unbreakable ornaments and garlands to decorate the tree costume and stitch them in place.

Battery operated Christmas lights can make you shine while sparkling halos can be made for the forehead using pipe cleaners brushed with glue and rolled in sparkling dust. You can improvise using butterflies, nests with eggs or fake snowflakes. Small girls also look angelic as little flowers and sisters can wear similar dresses in different colors and be a bunch of flowers in the party. They can wear tie-dye shirts with bell-bottom jeans and can either wear ‘flower halo’ in their hair or glue flowers on their headband and go to the party with a big smile. There are also scary tree costumes available in the market, where the arms fit into the branches of the three. There is a bat-shaped hole in the bark of the tree and a mesh for one’s face.

Boys can wear a black suit, white shirt and a black tie and put dark sunglasses and hey, you are ready as ‘Man In Black’ or even a CIA agent. Slick back your hair and wear black church shoes for a complete look. Black jacket and jeans can be used in several innovative ways to make several different interesting costumes for Halloween parties. Tall and slender boys can turn into Abraham Lincoln by putting on their black jeans and jacket and a beard cut out from fake fur. A top hat completes the look of Abraham Lincoln and it is very easy to make. Take an ice-cream bucket lid and glue a coffee can on its top, right in the center. Make two holes above the year and tie an elastic string to keep the hat steady on the top. Now spray black paint to make the hat you need.

If you take out the beard of Abraham Lincoln and add a black cape, you can become a magician in a jiffy. Your athletic kid may like to show off his muscles like a rebel of 1950s in a white t-shirt, a removable tattoo on his arms, black jeans, sunglasses, loafers, white socks and slicked back hair. A high school letter jacket or a windbreaker from that time frame will add more authenticity to their dress up. If they have a date, she can wear a white blouse and a poodle skirt, which can be made very easily. It is a circle around the waist and has a finished hem and perhaps some appliqué work. Accessories will include saddle shoes and a scarf.

Your flexible son, good in gymnastics and martial arts may like to show off his skills as a Ninja, wearing black pants and a black shirt and sash around the head. Zorro looks smart too in his black pants and loose black shirt, red sash around waist, black mask and a cardboard sword. White shirt, black pants, red sash around the waist with a circle showing ‘danger’ sign with two bones and a skull in the center and perhaps covering one eye with cover can make your son look a cruel pirate. Just wearing black leather jacket and black jeans and using hair sprays in many colors to make the hair stand up in weird styles in all colors make your son a punk rocker this Halloween. Imagine the surprise of everyone, when a naughty kid turns up as a priest wearing black pants, button-down shirt and black shoes. White cardstock can be used to make priest’s collar that can be tucked under the collar points. A rosary in hand and a Bible in the other complete the look. Grave and calm will be the keywords for this costume.
 

Newspaper girl is an easy and interesting dress up idea for girls. Wear a black (black and white leotards are even better) dress clinging to your body. Make pleated skirt out of newspaper to wear on your waist on your short skirt. Paste newspaper pleats to collar, cuffs and hat. You can even prepare an umbrella pasted with newspaper to use as a prop. Use newsreader style to talk to people, for you are a newspaper, even if you walk and talk. As it is Halloween time, you may use cruel and bloody pictures to highlight the mood. Hula set is another good option for the beach-themed or tropical-themed Halloween party.

String fresh flowers or take multi-colored fake flower strings to make a headband, garland and two bracelets. Wear a hula skirt along with a short top above the waist covered with fresh flowers. Chinese traditional dress in red and yellow colors, silky black hair pressed to give straight look of the Asians or the bun behind with wooden sticks to hold the bun and rouge to highlight the cheekbones, will transform you into a Chinese doll. Wear a long gown and drape a cloth in the fashion of Statue of Liberty. Make the headpiece using ice-cream cones glued to a headband and painted white. Carry the torch with painted fames and you are ready.

You can also dress up as Ace of Hearts to go to the Halloween costume party. It is easy to make too. Wear a red shirt and trousers. Cut white poster boards to cover the girl’s body. Make holes at the top of each board and string ribbon through them so that they can be draped easily over the red shirt and trousers of the girl. Red socks and white shoes can be worn along with this dress. Glue two large red hearts in the center of each white board. To the top left and right bottom corners of the boards, paint large red A’s. You can also paint face white and make red heart on the cheek.

Become a search engine using a crochet top and pants or preferably staple any type of netting cloth that you can land hands on and attach bits and pieces of net from your clothing. Staple signs and logos of some popular Urls or website addresses on the netting along with popular keywords such as ‘romance’, ‘horror stories’, ‘my beloved vampire’ and others and behold! you are a search engine in a minute. You can look like a nerdy boy from 50s by wearing a white shirt, black pants with gallus, white socks and black shoes. Put a bowtie and big, black-framed eyeglasses and you look exactly like a nerd. If you want to be a nerd in a prom, add a satin jacket to the ensemble with a red rose or handkerchief in the pocket.

Geeks love anything related to computers. So, why not try a computer costume this Halloween. Take a big cardboard box and make hole for neck and arms in it. Paint a computer screen on it. You can add a keyboard painted on a cardboard sheet and attach it to your waist. Cover your head with a small-sized cardboard box and paint in the gray or black color. Alternatively, you can take a long cardboard box, such as that of a refrigerator, and paint cell phone on it. Let the face be visible from cell phone’s screen and have a sign for the guests pasted just below your face to sms their names, addresses and phone numbers to your haunted mobile, so that you visit them at night. You can write other messages too related to Halloween theme.

Scary Halloween costumes do not always need to make holes in your pockets. Be creative and use these simple, ready-to use ideas that will help you to make your very own costume at home. Always remember just like right accessories can make or break a dress similarly right props go a long way in making a costume effective or just silly. Wear masks to bewitch your beautiful face in that of an old hag and use hats and sticks that go with your costume. In this section, we are presenting our collection of costume ideas for Halloween this year.

There are simple dresses that you can improvise at home using basic clothes that are easily available such as those that are suggested in ‘Men In Black’. There are some sexy costume ideas for girls, cute and easy-to-make Halloween costumes for babies and infants, costumes for geeks and nerds, costumes for young girls and teens and tree costumes that look environmental friendly but can be suited to a dark theme to match with the spirit of the holiday season. Note: - Try whatever you may, but even if you are desperate, most societies will not accept you posed as a Nudist or in New Born Baby Costume.
 

Halloween is the night of supernatural and paranormal events and activities. Superstitions, spells and charms are quite popular on the night of Halloween when spirits are believed to roam the earth freely. Irish women and girls check the loyalty and faithfulness of their lover by keeping one nut each named after the lovers and one nut of the girl’s name on the bars of the grate. Nuts that crack or jump denote that the lover whose name the nut has is unfaithful and will not be loyal to the girl. If the lover’s nut burns or catches fire, it shows that the lover has true love or respect for the girl. If the girl’s nut and the lover’s nut burns together, it means that they will be married. One of the other popular spell of Halloween ceremony is known as Luggies. In this, three dishes are taken. One is empty; one has dirty water in it while the last one has clean water.

These dishes are arranged on the hearth and the people are blindfolded and taken to the dishes and they have to dip their fingers into one of the dishes, one by one. Those who dip their fingers in clean water will marry a virgin; those who dip in dirty water will marry a widow or widower while those who find empty dish are destined to be a bachelor or a spinster. Change the position of the dishes every time a person is about to dip, so there can be no cheating. Another popular Halloween charm says that if you eat a salted herring on this night just before you sleep, you will be visited by your future husband or wife who will come to offer you water to quench your thirst in your dream.

If you slip outside alone at midnight and sow a handful of hemp seed saying, “Hemp seed, I sow thee, Hemp seed I sow thee; And he that is my true love, come behind and harrow me”, you will see your future husband or wife harrowing, when you look over your left shoulder. Another spell to see the face of your true lover is to wet a shirt-sleeve on Halloween night and hang it up near the fire to dry. Lie still in bed and watch it closely till midnight and you will see that your future partner will appear to turn the sleeve. These spells may not be true but they still intrigue young minds into experimentation and give them hopes in their quest to meet their lovers and spouses.

Pagans originally considered most of the Halloween symbols that are commonly associated with witches and wizards or evil entities sacred, thousands of years ago. When Christianity adopted Halloween as one of their own festivals, they started interpreting these symbols as signs of wickedness, devilish or associated to Satanism so that people turn away from the paganism and its practices. We are discussing some of these symbols that are still used on Halloween but the legends of their origin are faded by dust of time. They are:
Cats: Egyptians considered cats sacred and their Goddess Bast was considered the divine Mother of all cats. This Goddess was believed to live in the city of Bubastis, which was also considered sacred and was well known for its elaborate festivals and joyous festivities. Greek Goddess resembling Bast was known as Artemis while the Roman Goddess with similar traits was known as Diana. In the Middle Ages, Diana was thought to be the Queen of Witches and thus, cats were thought to be related to witchcraft and considered as common pets of the witches. Today, cats have become one of the popular emblems of Halloween and black cat is often associated with misfortune and ill omens.
Masks: In the ancient ages, Egyptians often used masks to impersonate their deities. Egyptian art includes elaborate masks that cover the entire face of the wearer that were believed to embody the deities and divinities and anyone who used to wear these masks were believed to manifest these pagan deities in human form. Mask was known in Teutonic as ‘Grim’, which was also a common part of the names of the deities. In Medieval ages, Christian churches forbade wearing of masks to avoid such practices but people continued to wear them on pagan festivals and celebrations adopted in Christianity such as Halloween and Carnivals.
Owls: Owl represents the Wise Woman of the village, also known as cunning healer and herb Mother or Crone of the village. It had once been associated with myriad forms of Goddess of Wisdom and Mortality such as Athene, Anath, Blodeuwedd, Lilith, Minerva and Mari (the Goddess having eyes like an owl and who seems to stare). Mari could take the shape of the owl at will too. Today, owls are associated with witches, especially at Halloween. Harry Potter’s world created by J. K. Rowling also portrays owls being the pets of witches and wizards and being used by them as means of communication.
Triangular Cakes: In English Witchcraft, it is believed that the ceremony of Cakes and Wine is a must after every meeting, where the high priestess distributes crescent or triangle-shaped small cakes and biscuits to the communion. As recently as in the 20th century, people from rural Scottish used to bake triangular cakes for Halloween and the woman who baked these cakes were called ‘the Bride.’ Next year, an old woman known as ‘Caillech’ or ‘Auld Wife’ who was believed to be an incarnation of the Crone, replaced the Bride in baking these magical cakes.