Couple ideas for a fun Halloween

By: Serena Scott Thomas

I don’t know about you but I am so tired of all this Halloween hype.  I know my 13 yr. old daughter still loves it, but frankly I can live without wasting money on costumes whose only scary feature is how attractive they might be to sexual predators and the oh-so-inevitable thumping sugar hangover.

I always enforce a large healthy dinner of Shepherd’s Pie and steamed broccolini, which coats the stomach with a thick layer of good carbs and dulls the appetite before the sugar frenzy begins.  Other effective strategies to lessen the pain of this seasonal excess are from one of my favorite websites,  Recyclebank, which offers intriguing ways to make your Halloween a more financially and environmentally savvy holiday.  Use these tips to jump-start your imagination.

Make “spider webs” with pillow stuffing. Those “cobwebs” that are sold in Halloween shops are pretty much the same as the fiberfill or cotton stuffed in throw pillows, quilts, and plush toys. If you’ve got a throw pillow that’s worse for the wear, rip it open and use wisps of the cotton batting as cobwebs to cover furniture or to stretch over the corners of windows.
Find some naturally spooky decorations outside. Take a walk in the park and raid the farm stand for creepy-looking dead branches, pumpkins and gourds. You might also use old clothes and some straw to make your own scarecrow — the head could be a pumpkin or a white pillowcase with a creepy face drawn on with fabric markers.

Make some Halloween crafts out of trash. Cut up egg cartons to make bats, make a witch out of a plastic spoon, or use decoupage or paints to decorate a cleaned plastic food container, like a large yogurt container or a gallon milk jug with the top cut off, for a trick-or-treat candy dish.

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