- Make clothespin bats to hang around your room.Hemera Technologies/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
Go batty this Halloween with a simple and fast Halloween craft. Create a colony of bats to hang all over your house. Get the template at Martha Stewart's website, then trace the template onto black construction paper using a white pencil. Cut out two bats for each clothespin. Use a pushpin to create eyes. Use glue stick to glue together the two cutouts at the wing tips. Spray paint clothespins black and let dry. Put glue on center of each clothespin and slip between the two cutouts. Pinch bats to clothespins and hold until set. Use clothespin to attach around room. - Decorate your tote with eyes and a nose to look like a cat.Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
All you need is some felt, decorative ribbon, Stitch Witchery and a craft knife to make your own trick-or-treat tote bag. Place two sheets of felt on top of each other and cut slits the width of ribbon along three sides. Weave the ribbon through the slits and tie together at top to make handle. Decorate with Halloween images cut from felt and attached with Stitch Witchery. - Place small toy spiders or bugs in soap.Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Getty Images
Make spooky soap to give out instead of candy, and be sure to keep some for your bathroom. The kids will love to play with these creepy critter soaps. Fill each cup of a silicone muffin mold with glycerin cut from the prescored lines on the block. Put muffin molds in microwave long enough to melt the glycerin. Take out of microwave and put on flat surface. Use tweezers to suspend small plastic toys (eyeballs, spiders, googly eyes) face down in melted glycerin. Let cool and harden completely, then gently pop out of mold. To give as treats, wrap in tissue paper and tie with ribbon. Be sure you tie on a "DO NOT EAT - THIS IS SOAP" note so parents and kids know what it is. And be careful to only give these to older kids, since little ones can choke on the toys inside. - Embelish a black t-shirt with lots of google eyes.PhotoObjects.net/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
Pick out a black or orange t-shirt (wash to remove sizing). Put a large piece of cardboard inside t-shirt (a pizza box lid works well) so shirt won't stick together. Glue assorted sizes of googly eyes all over front of t-shirt using washable fabric glue. Once glue dries, use glossy black, orange or glow-in-the-dark squeeze fabric paint to go around each eye for extra security. Add eyelashes to a few if you like. Wait a couple of hours, turn over and do the same to back (optional).
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