Spice Skulls
Helen Altman cast these skull forms from different spices and glue. They’re amazing to see in person! They’ll be at the Dead or Alive exhibit in NYC until October 24.
Halloween
Make: Projects Halloween roundup
With Halloween just two weeks away, costumes, house decor, and party plans are well in the works. We’ve been busy entering a bunch of the projects we ran in the Make: Halloween Special Edition into Make: Projects, our new projects library. Take a look at our Halloween project offerings, which includes the animatronic Flying Crank […]
CRAFT Pattern: Pumpkin Cozy
If you carve your Halloween pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern too early, it’ll be shriveled and rotten by the time of the big night, and that’s no treat! Knit this pumpkin cozy in the meantime. This project is great for practicing increases and decreases. Adjust the size by knitting fewer or more increase rows and easily […]
Halloween Bento Lunches
How cute is this sandwich from Cool Mom from Vancouver? Her Flickr account is packed with great Bento ideas, no matter the season. Via Just Bento Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food — whatever you create for Halloween […]
Spooky candy bowl with a DIY capacitive touch sensor
We’ve blogged this before, but it’s a great project so we’re revisiting it. It’s a creepy candy bowl that uses an aluminum foil capacitor to trigger an array of LEDs and scare the kiddies. The guys who created this project sell a “NerdKit” — an ATmega168-controlled project board, but it’s easy to see how you […]
Make a spooky jack-o’-lantern, quick
Halloween’s almost upon us, and it’s time to carve up some jack-o’-lanterns. I have great respect for people who take hours to lavishly carve pumpkin masterpieces. I also have very little time to make my own pumpkins. My kids and I just want to get them carved, set a candle inside, and move on to roasting the seeds as quickly as possible. So I decided to forgo the knife and use a cordless Dremel Multi-Max oscillating tool to make quick work of Mr. O’Lantern. Follow the steps below and you too can crank out an army of chilling, thrilling Halloween pumpkins in no time.
How-To: Blood Slide Candy
Learn to make your own Dexter-inspired blood slide candies over at forkable. [via Street Anatomy] I spent the last week thinking about the Martha Stewart lollipops, and how they could be made more scary. I tried to brainstorm more gruesome fillings but it wasn’t creepy enough. Then I started thinking of what’s really scary. Serial […]