Halloween!

As you all know, Halloween is approaching! Are you ready to go trick or treating or hand out candy to excited kids and teens? Which ever you are doing you should have not only yourself, but your house, prepared! Halloween is a fun, candy-filled, spooky holiday so go find your Halloween bins! The best time to shop for new decorations will probably be after Halloween; everything should be on sale since the stores will be trying to get rid of it. But it's not a bad thing to buy some stuff during this time!
       If you have younger children they will probably be begging for a new costume, so why not? Well, first how about you look through what you have! They probably don't want to be something they have already been, but you can probably find something to throw together. Have some plain old masks? How about digging out the glitter glue or something and writing on it or decorating it with something you have on hand? Otherwise just get some face paint type stuff. Put your creative mind on and go searching. Pintrest or WeHeartIt are some good places to start for ideas.

Maybe you are looking into be creepy this year. Or maybe you are tired of being scary, and just want to be something unique.. Maybe you even just want to throw together a bunch of random stuff and not even know what you are. It's Halloween, so who cares what you are! Just remember... no trick-or-treating if you're not dressed up! So have fun this Halloween, and stay out of trouble.

As for your house you should get the outside and maybe even the inside decorated. If you can a good idea would be to theme your decorations off of your costume. Here are some creative ideas...

As for this last photo you may be able to guess what it is. To make this simple decoration all you need is:

  -White milk jugs (you get to recycle this way too!)

  -Black Sharpie marker

  -Battery powered lights, or even plug in ones would work

Take your white milk jugs; on each draw or funny or scary face with the marker. For battery powered lights, just put them inside the jug, and turn them on at night. For plug in lights you will need to cut a hole in the side of your jug, as close to the bottom as possible. Make the hole as big as you need so that you can work with it. Then run the lights through the jugs, bunching some lights inside the jug. The lights will run along the ground this way, but that is okay. It will still look very cool!