Home, Spooky Home
Boo! All the fright stuff you will need to makeover your home this Halloween.
By Robin Tarnoff, Lauren DeBellis and the Editors of Parents.com
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Alison Miksch
Friendly Ghosts
A row of goblins welcomes trick-or-treaters to your door.
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Alison Miksch
Cats and Bats
Black paper silhouettes in a window look amazing -- and they're super-easy to make.
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Alison Miksch
Creepy Critters
Mini pumpkins are the perfect size for making scary spiders.
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Alison Miksch
Treat Tree
Invite kids to help themselves to these mini buckets-o'-treats perched on an eerie black tree.
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Alison Miksch
Witching Hour
Hang a row of cute felt-covered witch hats on your front porch.
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Alison Miksch
All Dressed Up
Put away the knife and decorate your front-door pumpkins with things from the craft closet: glitter, rhinestones, masks, and more.
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Alison Miksch
Pumpkin Caddy
Forget the treat bowl: Store your candy inside a wide-grinned pumpkin instead.
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Alison Miksch
Eyes See You
A black marker, fluorescent-green foam circles, and some double-stick tape turn trees into mysterious lawn creatures.
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Alison Miksch
Nose Job
Instant face-lift -- set your pumpkin on its side and use the stem as the nose.
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Alison Miksch
Tricked Out
You'll be the most popular house on the block!
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Andy Lyons
Haunted Mansion
Paint a creepy haunted mansion on a pumpkin and carve out the windows and a full moon behind it.
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Jason Wilde
Cat Walk
Make a menagerie of cats to line your stoop. Create ears by cutting triangles out of colorful card stock and tape them to toothpicks. Leave enough room at the bottom of the toothpick so that you can poke it into the pumpkin to hold the ears in place. Paint on the background color and face details and poke the ears in place once dry.
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Blaine Moats
Flower Power
Give pumpkins "hair" with autumnal flowers or a swath of greens.
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Josh Titus
Bat's So Cute!
These cute little guys can be made with old socks!
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Andy Lyons
Hang-O-Lanterns
Bend a handle out of thick wire or a clothes hanger and use it to hang small jack-o-lanterns along an outdoor path.
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Alexandra Grablewski
Mummies Love Candy
Make a spooky candy dish with plastic water bottles, gauze, and googly eyes.
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Andy Lyons
Super Spidey
Use a stamp or a stencil to add a big black spider to a pumpkin side, and instead of the usual eyes and mouth, carve in the spider's sticky web.
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Greg Scheidemann
Spooky Silhouette
Inside, make a spooky family tree by cutting a tree shape out of black paper and affixing "family" silhouettes to the branches. Is that a witch in your family tree?
Copyright © 2008 Meredith Corporation. Originally published in the October 2007 issue of Parents magazine.What do you think of this story? Give your opinion!
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