Halloween Ideas from Pinterest

DIY  Halloween decorations

Halloween is next week! eeek! We’ve got our elf uniform pressed and ready and a sleigh’s worth of candy to pass out. Now we just have to finish decorating. We love decorating for Halloween. I’ve found tons of DIY Halloween decorations and have been making Elf Bob help me. 🙂 Here are a few of the decorations we’re planning to make and a few more we just really wanted to share.

Scary pumpkin carving

How to: 

-Carve the top and take out all the seeds
-Cut out eyes
-When cutting mouth, make one side wider than the other (enough to fit fake leg in)
-Use old jeans, a sock and shoe to make fake leg.
-Stuff jeans with grocery bags, paper or fluff.
-Use fake blood to make it spooky

SoloCup Eyes

Decorate solo cups with eyes. Great for parties.

How to:

-Glue plastic eyes to orange solo cups

Oozing Stairs

Glowsticks on the front steps for Halloween night!

How to:

-Break glowsticks over your steps
-Let the glowsticks ooz down and drip

Pumpkin and Ghost wine bottles

Decorated wine glasses for Halloween. Easy for the porch and they won’t go bad.

How to:

-Get the labels off your wine bottle using olive oil
-Paint the bottles – use orange for pumpkin and frosted glass for the ghost
-Use vinyl to cut out faces
-Glue face pieces to glasses

Trunk or Treat ideas

Trunk or Treating is becoming more popular. Decorate your car for the occassion!

For more ideas, this Pinterest board has over 75 Halloween Ideas!

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Halloween Treats

Who doesn’t love treats?! I know I do! yuummmmy!! Rudolph and I are always getting fussed at for eating too many sweets but they’re just so yummy! We make sure to brush and floss our teeth to make up for all the candy. Here are some delicious Halloween treats I just had to share.

Frankenstein rice krispies

Ingredients:

-3 tablespoons butter or margarine
-1 package (10 oz., about 40) regular marshmallows or 4 cups miniature marshmallows
-6 cups Rice Krispies® or 6 cups Ready-To-Eat Cereal Cocoa Krispies™
-Canned frosting or decorating gel
-Assorted candies

Cute ghost strawberries

How to:

-Wash strawberries and pat dry
-Melt white chocolate
-Dip each strawberry in the chocolate mixture.
-Place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet, allowing excess chocolate to form the ghosts’ tails. Immediately
-Press chocolate chips into coating for eyes.
-Freeze for 5 minutes.
-Dip a toothpick into melted chocolate and draw a mouth on each face. 

plastic spiders frozen in ice cube trays for Halloween

 

How to:

-Cut off ring part of plastic spider rings
-Put spiders in ice tray and freeze

Witch’s Broomsticks

How to:

-Pierce the bottom of your peanut butter cup with a toothpick, helping to create a hole for the pretzel to go into.
-Stick your pretzel into the hole, but not too far as you don’t want it to come out the other side.

Halloween Kitty Cookies

 

Ingredients:

-2 cups sugar

-1 cup  Butter, softened

-3 Eggs

-1 tablespoon vanilla

-3 cups all-purpose flour

-3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa

-1/2 teaspoon baking powder

-1/2 teaspoon baking soda

-1/2 teaspoon salt

 -Candy corn

 -Red cinnamon candies

For more Halloween Treat ideas, check out this Pinterest Board with lots of ideas.

From all of Santa’s elves to you, we hope you have a wonderful and happy Halloween.

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Pinterest Halloween Ideas from Santa’s Elves

Halloween is just around the corner and we elves couldn’t be more excited. Halloween is our second favorite holiday, after Christmas of course! It’s one of the few occasions we can dress in full elf uniform and not get funny looks. Nothing sparks my holiday spirit more than putting on my green and red stockings, Santa hat and elf shoes. I simply love it.

Halloween is such a creative holiday. There are so many different decorations, costumes, and treats to choose from.  Since Pinterest and DIY are huge this Halloween season, I’ve put together some of my favorite spooky ideas from my Pinterest board for you to enjoy. Maybe you and your family can try a few!

Halloween Decoration- Crepe Paper Streamer Mummy Door:

This is a super cute and easy to make Halloween decoration for your front door.

What you need:

• Crepe paper streamers- white
• White paper for eyes
• Black marker to color pupils

 How to:

• Wrap white crepe paper streamer around door to create mummy look.
• Cut 2 large circles from white paper for eyes
• Color in 2 smaller circles on the eyes to make pupils
• Tape eyes to door

Family Halloween Costumes

This post has 8 family costumes with instructions listed.  My favorite one is the Willy Wonka family. They even included the dog! I wonder if we could dress the reindeer as Wonka bars? …… hmmm.

Are you doing a family costume set this year? We want to know what your ideas are.

Halloween Hand print and Arm print Craft

Who doesn’t like arts and crafts? This is a fun and easy craft that kids love because it involves paint. You can display the prints as art or put away as a keepsake. Fun for the whole family.

What you need:

• Black construction paper
• Green construction paper
• Glue
• Yellow paint for moon
• Brown paint tree
• Black paint eyes and mouth
• White paint for ghost print

How to:

• Trace a small glass to make a circle and paint it yellow to make a moon
• Trace child’s hand and arm and paint it so it looks like a leafless tree
• Trace Child’s foot prints on green construction paper. Then cut out foot print and glue in place.
• Use a black thumbprint to make the ghosts’ mouth and use black finger prints to make the eyes

A Healthier Halloween Treat

Halloween is all about candy, candy, candy so here is a healthier treat that still looks fun and is delicious!

How to:

• Pineapple on bottom
• Mandarin oranges in the middle
• Topped with cool whip or whipped cream

There you have it. Some of my favorite Halloween treats, crafts, and ideas. I’m off to create a mummy door and make that delicious Halloween parfait.

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