Vampire Soap Dispenser Glow-in-the-Dark Window Designs Mummy Pin

Project from Halloween Ideas on Home & Garden Television
October 9, 2001

Kathy Ross, a children's craft book author, shows how to make some creative Halloween party decorations.

Vampire Soap Dispenser

Materials:

2 liquid soap dispensers (with red soap, or use red food coloring, just a drop or two for each)
2 rubber bands
piece of plastic foam
magic marker
black garbage bag

Steps:

1. Secure the two soap bottles together with a rubber band.

2. Cut a piece of foam in a circle to serve as the vampire face. Draw a face on the foam with a magic marker.

3. Press the two spouts through the face where the fangs should appear. Take the face off and draw a mouth where the two "teeth" protrude.

4. Reattach the face, then wrap the bottles with a piece of black garbage bag (securing with a rubber band around the necks of the bottles) to serve as a cape for the new vampire.

Glow-in-the-Dark Window Designs

Materials:

magic marker
clingy plastic wrap
glow-in-the-dark paint
tape

Steps:

1. Simply draw designs on the plastic wrap--spooky eyes, ghosts, etc. with glow-in-the-dark paint.

2. Secure to the inside of a window with tape. When the lights are out, only the shapes will show up, not the imperfections of the plastic wrap.

3. Use the paint to outline shapes on a child's treat bag so that it shows up better at night.

Mummy Pin

Materials:

white shoelace
ice-cream spoon
small google eyes
school glue
scissors

Steps:

1. Wrap a shoelace around a wooden ice-cream spoon by holding one end of the shoelace in the middle of the spoon and beginning to wrap around from the bottom.

2. Before completely covering the spoon, allow for a space for two google eyes and glue them in, then wrap them so that they "peek" out.

3. Snip the shoestring with scissors and glue the loose end to the back.

Reprinted with permission of Home & Garden Television, hgtv.com.