Ideas for Halloween

Ideas for Halloween

For a great outdoor display that gives the effect of glowing
faces floating in the dark, hang Jack O' Lanterns at various lengths from plant
hangers.

Garnish Halloween martinis with three
candy corns speared through a toothpick, instead of onions or olives.

Ladle punch from a traditional black
cauldron with dry ice for a smoky "graveyard" effect.

Serve roasted and salted pumpkin seeds
with drinks instead of peanuts or pretzels.

For a ghoulish side dish, fill a
carved-out pumpkin with steamed cauliflower combined with a creamy cheese sauce,
and use the top of the pumpkin as a lid - when the lid is lifted off for
serving, the cauliflower looks like the pumpkin's "brain."

If you want a great effect for a few pennies try this. Using
chalk, draw figures in your driveway that look like the figures drawn by police
in a crime accident. You can have a friend or relative draw around you while you
pose as the victim. You can purchase crime scene tape like that above at party
stores.

Take a teaspoon or so of black paste for
food and stir it into any
basic sugar cookie recipe. The dough will turn a rich black that's
perfect for making bat cookies.

Freeze gummy worms and other wiggly creatures into ice cubes. Float them
in your party drinks or make a big splash in a punch bowl.

Drop a pint of cherry tomatoes into a pot of boiling water, blanch
them for a minute and then drain and slip off their skins. Instant
bloody eyeballs.

For an eerie effect, hang glow-in-the-dark bats from the ceiling and turn
out the lights.

Clear out your fireplace and fill with orange and black pillar candles in
various shapes and sizes.