This is a great craft for teachers to use in the classroom. After the students have made their pumpkin pouches, they can hang them from their desks making it an ideal holding spot for treats and such.

You will need two paper plates – one for the base and then half of the other one for the pouch, orange construction paper or orange paint, green construction paper, and black paint or black construction paper.

Begin by stapling the half plate to the bottom of the other plate. It works best when you have the Styrofoam plates that are slightly deep to give the best pocket effect. You can also hole punch between both plates and have the child “sew” them together with orange or black yarn.

Paint or color your pumpkin orange. You can also do a modge podge technique by having the child tear the orange construction paper into pieces and then glue them on with a mixture of ½ water and ½ white glue. Let dry completely.

Cut out eyes, a nose, and a mouth from the black construction paper. You can also choose to paint these on if you want. The front of the pouch is where the mouth should go. Make a stem from the green construction paper and either glue or staple to the top.

• 1 red bell pepper
• 12 mozzarella sticks
• 1 COOKED pizza crust
• Pizza sauce

Spread pizza sauce on cooked crust. Form fingers by slicing mozzarella sticks in half lengthwise, then width wise. Put a notch in the rounded tip. Cut pepper lengthwise and then again width wise, so it looks like a fingernail.

Arrange cheese (fingers) on pizza crust and place fingernails in the notch. Heat until cheese just starts to melt.

• 6 ounce package blueberry Jell-o mix
• 16 ounce carton small curd cottage Cheese
• 16 ½ ounce can blueberries in syrup

Prepare Jell-o according to package directions. Chill until firm. Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Drain and set aside the syrup from the blueberries. Add the berries to the cottage cheese and mix well.

Add food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice grayish color when blended.

To serve put a couple of spoonfuls of Jell-o (congealed brain fluid) on a plate, some of the syrup on that, and a scoop of the cottage cheese & blueberry mix (brain matter) on top. Serves six.

This Halloween costume is made up of only a cone shaped headdress crafted from silk. Select silk or some type of shiny material from the color that you choose. Use construction paper and create a cone which will fit the top of your dog’s head, then glue or staple them together.

At this point glue the fabric to the paper cone leaving a kind of long train which will float across your dog’s back. Be sure it’s not long enough to step on though. Include a string or elastic band going beneath your dog’s chin and now you have a little princess!

This is a super easy craft for even little kids to make. All you need is a paper plate, some orange paint or an orange marker, black and green construction paper, glue, an ice cream stick (craft stick), and some string.

Take the plate and color or paint it completely orange. Let dry. At this point, there are two ways you can approach this. You can choose to make it just a hanging pumpkin or make it into a mask. If you just want a hanging decoration, cut out eyes, nose, and a mouth from the black construction and glue on the front.

You can also make it into a fun mask by cutting out the eyes. If you like, you can also cut out the nose and mouth.

Out of the green construction paper, cut out two leaf shapes to glue at the top for the stem. If you like, you can trace your child’s hand and use those as the leaves. This gives the pumpkin a personal touch and makes it really cute!

For the hanging pumpkin, punch a hole in the top, put some string through the hole, and hang! If you are making a mask you can either glue the craft stick at the bottom or punch a hole in either side of the plate and put a piece of string through each hole which you will tie at the back!

Using a colorful bandana, tie it around your dog’s neck and set a little cowboy hat on top of his head. Guarantee the cowboy hat is small and lightweight with a thin stretchy headband. You can actually end here or based on your dog’s size, include a kid’s play gun holster around his lower body in front of the hind legs.

Use red felt and cut it in a lady bug shape. Now add a tie on the top that will go around your dog’s neck. Using black felt, cut out circular dots and sew these to the red bug shaped cape. Create a little cap to suit your dogs head and include little bug eyes and antennae. Stitch a strip of narrow elastic to the cap so that it will remain on your dog’s head.

This is the easiest of all ghost crafts. All you need is a white sheet, a balloon, a rubber band, and a black marker. If you want to hang your ghost, you’ll also need some string or a broken rubber band.

Blow up the balloon and place it inside the sheet. Draw a scary face on your ghost, and you are done! To insert string for hanging, just run a threaded needle through the top – don’t pop the balloon! You can also use some string at the bottom to drape him open.

And that’s it – easy as pie!

Pick a white pillow case which is about a foot longer than your pet. Using a tootsie roll as an example, sew brown and red fabric onto the middle of the white pillow case. From white fabric cut out the text “Tootsie Roll Pup” and stitch the text to the brown fabric. Cut out 4 openings for the dog’s legs to pass through leaving approximately 4 to 6 inches of pillow case on both ends. After you have positioned the Halloween costume over your dog, insert lightweight padding and tie up both ends using string. Keep it comfortable… so don’t tie it too tight.

Purchase a small football jersey of your favorite football team and put it on your dog with his or her front legs in the arm openings. Finally you’ve got a genuine team player!