Here’s a great recipe for kids taken from the Better Homes and Garden website. A pound cake edged in crushed cookies and worm-shaped fruit snacks makes the coffin, while marshmallows rolled in green-colored sugar form the monster.
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After you select a theme for your Halloween party, you need to select a date, time and location for the event. Next, it’s time to create a guest list. Once you’ve decided on your guest list, you’ve got to provide them with the details.
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A scarecrow costume offers a tribute to the season. If you plan on dressing up with a group of family or friends, this fits nicely with the Wizard of Oz theme.  To make a scarecrow costume, you need the following materials:
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Theme parties make for a fantastic Halloween celebration. Theme based Halloween parties are a great way to create a special ambiance, but require extra planning for you and your guests. So, make sure to give them plenty of advance notice. You also want to let your guests know that “Halloween costumes strongly encouraged”, rather than “costume required” or “costume optional”. This way, your guests will likely dress in costume, but won’t feel embarrassed or unwelcome if they don’t like getting dressed up.
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These creepy witches take the cake — cupcake, that is.  With candy hair, called grounds, and even warts on their noses, these delicious characters will be gobbled up quickly by little ghosts and goblins.
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Halloween is truly a fun time of year to let loose and have some wicked fun.  And there’s no better time to host a party.  In fact, the number of adults attending or hosting a Halloween party seems to grow every year.  This is not surprising since Halloween is the one night of the year that grownups can dress up as anything they want and have a spooky good time.
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Looking for a real haunt for Halloween?  Want something more authentic than the neighborhood kids running around screaming boo?  We’ll keep reading…
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One of the things that make Halloween so wonderful is that you can dress up, display Halloween crafts and scare all the folks you want in the spirit of fun. Decorating your home, car or office is the first step in setting the mood for Halloween and can be accomplished with just a little patience and some creativity.
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A heavenly dessert, harvest squares also make devilishly good bribes for trick-or-treaters and are a real Halloween treat.
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Everyone remembers “The Munsters” television show.  Who didn’t get a laugh out of Herman Munster’s antics as Frankenstein?  But Herman can’t take all the credit for the popularity of Frankenstein or the Frankenstein Halloween costume.
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