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Try Facepainting For Halloween

Linda — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:30:17 +0000

Can you believe how fast this year is passing by? Halloween will soon be here, and what a great time to do some facepainting. You can come up with so many great ideas and designs. The supplies are inexpensive, and facepainting is a great way to add to and enhance a Halloween costume.

Consider the safety factor also. With facepainting there is no need for a mask to block one’s view. With so much traffic nowadays, it pays to consider every aspect of what we and our children are doing. Have fun and be safe!

Halloween Crafts

Linda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000

When Halloween comes around, we all realize that kids just want to have lots of fun. You can keep them busy with plenty of Halloween crafts and activities. In short time you’ll have them playing, laughing, thinking, and learning. What better way is there to keep them entertained?

Crafting and activities that involve the entire family are great ways to bond with each other and share quality time, while having a great time too. Put away the video games, turn the television off, and just get busy being creative. Make it enjoyable for all involved, and you’ll be glad you made the effort.

Halloween Ideas

Linda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000

Halloween is a fun time for kids and adults alike. It’s a time for all ages to enjoy, whether trick or treating or passing out treats to all the ‘creatures’ who come to the door. Perhaps you are hosting a Halloween party or attending one. Regardless of your involvement, there are numerous Halloween ideas to make this special occasion even more special.

Halloween parties are popular at this festive season of the year, I can remember parties which my mother hosted in our basement years ago. I remember playing games and bobbing for apples. (Do they even do that anymore?) I particularly recall one party when my brother and our cousin (both very masculine) dressed as twin Victorian belles in their frilly pink dresses with pantaloons. What fun we had!

Costumes come in any and all categories (butterflies, clowns, ghosts, witches, skeletons, mummies, pirates, scarecrows, princesses, just to name a few.) Some people wear masks; others paint their faces.

Candied apples, caramel apples, candy corn, caramel popcorn balls are a few of the treats that are abundant at Halloween time. Crafters are busy at this time of year making costumes, painting faces, carving or painting pumpkin faces along with, perhaps, baking and decorating the house.

Halloween is the beginning of the most enjoyable time of the year, ushering in Thanksgiving, followed by Christmas, and then the New Year celebrations.