The Monster Track Attack

Halloween means monsters, and to give your sidewalks a creepy touch, mark them with orange monster tracks. With a little help from you and your child's best friend, this decorating idea can be lots of fun.
Make it!
Using a knife, cut feet from 2-inch hard plastic foam. Cut two ¼-inch wide parallel slits in the center of each foot. With scissors, cut matching feet from green fun foam and 1-inch thick soft foam, cutting slits in the green foam only Use a cool-temperature glue gun to adhere green feet to hard plastic foam feet.
Tie one on.
Thread a length of hook-and-loop fastening tape through slits on each shoe; separate the tape the tape and crisscross the ends on top to secure around kids' shoes. Glue soft-foam feet to bottom. Ask kids to step into a pan of thinned tempera paint and let the stomping begin!

Dreadful Decor
Turn your home into a haunted house!

Wind Socks
Draw a face on a medium-size white trash bag with black permanent marking pen. Untwist and open up a clothes hanger. Knot the corners of the trash bag around the hanger. Push the end of wire into the ground.

Photo Face Scarecrow
Using KODAK Picture Maker, transfer pictures of scary faces onto T-shirts. Wrap the shirts around broom heads. Tape the broom handles together in an "X" to form the legs. Tape a long stick across for the arms. Dress in crazy clothes!

Weird Windows
Trick-or-treaters will do a double take when they see what's in the window. Take some funny or creepy pictures of your family. Take them to a KODAK Picture Maker and enlarge them. Then simply tape them onto both sides of your windows. Leave a space so you can peek out--when you go to the door, put on a mask and look through the window. You may startle your guests or make them laugh!

Silly Sock Spiders
Hang colorful but creepy crawlies

Slip a 4-inch plastic-foam ball into the toe of a large adult-size sock, then add a 2¾-inch foam ball into the sock. Next, maneuver a piece of thin dowel into the sock to join the balls and hold them together. Cut off excess sock remaining, leaving ½-inch of fabric. Use a thin dowel to push the excess fabric into the small foam ball. For the head, take a silly picture of a friend or family member and cut out the face (be sure to get double prints so you can keep one for your scrapbook). Attach the face to the body with hook-and-loop tape. For the legs,  coil 16 chenille stems around a thin dowel. Wrap one end on two coils through the same pony bead to make a leg. Add a 15mm bead for a foot. Make eight. Push the legs into the large foam ball. Push a U-shape chenillestem into the spider to attach a hanging string.

The Stick Shtick
Turn a few sticks into skeletons

Stick Skeletons
Gather sticks from the trees in your yard. Drill tiny holes in the sticks where "bones" intersect and secure with wire. Drill a hole through the neck and thread with a long hanging wire. Form the head from modeling material. Push onto skeleton's neck; remove and let dry. Glue head to neck. Spray-paint shape with white. Cut out a picture and attach it to the head with pins.

Leaf Bag Spider

All you need for this yard decoration are a few branches, some leaves and a big black trash bag. Have the kids rake up some leaves, fill and tie the bag and then put a face on it using plastic container lids and a marker. Cut a mouth out of cardboard and color it with a marker. Finally, add legs by poking branches in the ground and wiring them together at the joints. To top it of, use old shoes and socks for feet.