HOW TO – Make Halloween Pumpkin Paper Ornaments
Hostess with the Mostess put up Vicki Shields’s directions for making these Halloween pumpkin paper ornaments. They are a quick and easy way to spruce up for Halloween.
Halloween
Computer costume from the 80s will make you revisit DOS
This holloween costume from 1981 looks like an evil demon took over this guy’s PC. Even in the days before Windows, you could still get a blue screen of BOO! computer costume from 1981, via OObject
Candy Corn Hat Pattern
More Halloween goodness with Material Whirled’s free pattern to make her knitted candy corn hat. [ via Lime & Violet ]
Crochet Indian Corn Pattern
Alicia of Create! has a free pattern to make this seasonal crochet indian corn. She’s also got the cute crochet pumpkin, ghost, and candy corn patterns and mini-versions in her shop.
DIY: Solar Powered Jack-o-Lantern
This pumpkin certainly is orange green. This is a great instructable that uses an old solar light to make a safe, environmentally friendly, light-up pumpkin. If you want to be really green, make sure to make a pumpkin pie from the ‘guts’ and compost the jack-o-lantern when you’re done. More about a DIY: Solar Powered […]
Halloween science grossology
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts had a special Grossology exhibit a while back. They still have a great related site up, with Foul Facts, Eeww Experiments, and Disgusting Downloads. I love the instructions for Edible Poop Cookies: “Shape the dough into turds. You can make flattened cow pies or little kitty turds.” Ew, […]
Halloween raw materials – Nasco Science
Nasco has tons of cool stuff, both fun and icky, from paper masks to preserved pig hearts. I think the range of items they carry is kind of surreal. Lots of disgusting decorating potential here!