1. It’s the credit crunch so you probably look like a ghost anyway. Just add some strategically placed red lipstick and, hey presto, Dracula.
2. Ghosts are easy: smear faces in honey or syrup and dunk in bowl of flour. Instant ghost. Remember to tell people to close their eyes and mouth during the dunking. Raw flour is not tasty.3. Sheets come into their own at Halloween. Either buy some very cheap at a charity shop, preferably without Winne Poohs on them unless you plan to put fangs on every single Pooh or use the ones now on your beds. It means you won’t have to wash them for another week and, who knows, they will probably look no worse after a day on ghost duty than they did before.
4. Invest in face paints and go wild. It saves on doing anything else on the costume front other than cutting a hole in a sheet.
5. Combine costumes from last year or other costume parties for something original, eg, a Dracula witch or a mouse ghost.
6. Collect twigs for the witch’s broomstick. This combines gardening and clearing up the park with witchcraft.
7. Make a spell book and use up all the leftover mouldy ingredients in the back of your cupboard. Guaranteed hours of fun, eg, make a poultice of death. Remember to cackle a lot while everyone is mixing.
8. Invest in cheap torches for maximum effect. They make any face painting/costume look much, much scarier.
9. Decorate sweetie bags with lanterns, etc, made from old sweetie papers. Use Halloween to get rid of sweeties you have stored from previous parties. If you end up with more sweeties after Halloween than you get rid of you have lost the game and must do a forfeit eg wash the sheets for mummy.
10. Ensure you and your partner, if you have one, dress up too and join in the fun. Make sure you have the least taxing costume, eg ghost mummy, and that your partner wears something really uncomfortable like a pumpkin. Make the kids keep nagging him till he gives in. It will make Halloween all the more entertaining for you.
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