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Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs present a wide array of Halloween craft projects, including costumes, masks, gifts, pumpkins, and decorations, all of which can be made of ordinary materials found around the house. Original. ... Read more

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Great Crafts
The crafts in this book are great. There are so many projects in this book that everyone is bound to find one they like. Some are so simple that they are almost ridiculus. Even if you do not think you are a crafty person you will find a craft you can do in this book. As a pre-school teacher I have used various crafts in this book as patterns for larger or more detailed class projects. This is a great buy at a good price.

Spook-tackular crafts found here for all ages.
Whether you are a school, public librarian or someone who works with children, this creepy craft book is for you.Spiders, skeletons, ghosts, witches and more are all created from easily found materials. You can makethe projects easier or harder depending on what age group you are workingwith.Get craftin' with your kids with this boo-tiful book.Other booksin the series are just as great. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ... Read more

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Cool ideas for personalizing any Halloween party

From spooky to whimsical and everything in between, Halloween Tricks and Treats is a treasure-trove of neat ideas and helpful how-tos for adding a personal touch to your Halloween parties and celebrations. You'll get instructions for throwing Halloween parties that are festive for the whole family and learn how to make Halloween decorations that will transform your home into the spookiest place on the block. Plus, you'll get tasty recipes for Halloween treats, easy-to-follow craft projects, and step-by-step instructions for making handmade Halloween costumes that are clever, creative, and fun. Geared toward families and jam-packed with great ideas, you'll get

• Halloween party ideas and kitchen-tested recipes
• Instructions for making handmade Halloween decorations and holiday crafts
• Halloween costume patterns and ideas for kids' games

Halloween Tricks and Treats shows you how to have imaginative Halloween celebrations that are achievable for any level of crafting ability.

Craft Excerpts from Halloween Tricks and Treats

Scary Sculls

Furry Spiders

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Customer Reviews (5)

LOVE this book!
Very nice book on great ideas for Halloween! Of course it does not include ALL of B&G's ideas, because they want you to visit their website and buy their magazines, etc...but for me, this is perfect. LOVE it!!

A bit simple
Not that I did not like it at all, but I expected much more, maybe because I am not American and I was not sure what I was buying. There are some nice ideas, but in general, nothing that I have not seen around before and no easy projects to do with kids or so...

Hallowgreat!
Love this book as an addition to my Halloween collection. Great inspiration and ideas! A lot of pumpkin themed ideas so if you're decorating with pumpkins, it's a great book!

Terrific inspiring book - full of inventive ideas!
I am a working mom with not much free time so I was looking for a book with quick and easy craft ideas that I could make with my young daughter. This book is full of great inventive ideas for making simple and cute decorations for the home, easy costumes ideas and yummy snacks that are Halloween themed. We plan on making some of the decorations this weekend. And we are bringing the moody monster muffins and creepy crawlers to a friend's party!

Had high expectations...
Don't get me wrong, i did enjoy this book. But i expected a little more out of Better Homes and Gardens. I ordered this at the same time as Matthew Mead's Monster Book of Halloween and to be honest i got a lot more ideas out of Matthew Mead's book. I collect Halloween decorating books so i might be overly critical. I do think this is a good book for anyone starting a collection or for a family as well. Lots of cute ideas! ... Read more

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It's never been easier to celebrate Halloween--the fastest growing holiday for crafting, decorating and parties. This book is jam-packed with quick and easy craft ideas perfect for beginners and busy families. Both parents and children will enjoy more than 35 delightfully creepy projects, including:-Fun decorations-Easy party favors-Adorable gifts-Tasty recipes-Creative party ideas

These spooky projects are inexpensive to complete and most include easy-to-follow templates or patterns. Whether they want to throw a full-fledged party or just make their homes more festive for the holiday, readers will appreciate the wealth of ideas and inspiration on every page! ... Read more

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Fresh spin on Halloween crafts
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I loved this book!Some of the ideas I had seen elsewhere, but she put a fresh spin on things.The crafts here are more cute than creepy, if that is what you are looking for.many would be great for your children, some are for adults with more craft experience - a nice spread of ability levels.Instructions are very detailed and step-by-step.One of my favorite craft books.

Good Halloween Craft Projects to do with Your Kids
Halloween is my absolute favorite season I and love crafting, so I bought this book, hoping for some fresh, new ideas.The crafts are pretty basic and simplistic, which would be great for one-on-one time with your age 8 and over kids, but if you're a seasoned crafter, you may be disappointed. ... Read more

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Using colour photographs and step-by-step instructions, this book contains over 50 Halloween projects and ideas. These range from table decorations, to floral arrangements, wreaths, invitations, wall hangings, entry decorations, party gifts, pumpkin decorating and others. ... Read more

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Great crafts!
It's loaded with different types of crafts for Halloween.My friends say I'll have the coolest house for the holiday next year.Can't wait to get started.

HUGELY DISAPPOINTING
This book is a compendium of all things tacky and country. Based on the only other review of this book, I assumed it would be a cut above the average country schemed, unsophisticated fare that is so prevalent. WRONG! This book is not for people looking for a more graphic, modern take on Halloween. Instead, it regurgitates all the hackneyed, non-visionary stuff so readily available now. The designs remind me of finding bits and pieces of scraps and putting them together in the most uncompelling, hodge-podge way. If you like country, you'll probably enjoy this book. If not, I suggest you seek elsewhere...

Brings you right in the mood
Best book I have seen to make halloween decorations for your home and garden.The pictures will bring you right in the mood and you just can't wait to get started on your crafts. This book is a "must have" onyour bookshelf.

This is a winner
I love this book!My favorite is the ghosthouse but all the projects in the book are ideas with a sence of humor and once youve started you don't want to stop.This book is a "must have" essential for everyone wholoves halloween. ... Read more

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Do you want to make your own haunted house? Haunted houses are a fun and scary part of Halloween. Follow storyteller Randel McGee as he explores Halloween in Paper Crafts for Halloween. Learn to make a flying bat, sitting black cat, goofy goggles, and even a haunted house! ... Read more

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Contains recipes and crafts grouped conveniently for five Halloween theme parties. ... Read more

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Great Creative Halloween Ideas
My Very Own Halloween is a great book for children to use to create treats to eat, as well as crafts to decorate for the occasion. Each food/craft has a list of the items required to create it. Then it shows a numbered list of descriptive steps to follow. There's a photograph of every creation and suggested menus combining the creations. ... Read more

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Add some inexpensive fun to your Halloween gatherings this year. Whether you are a parent or a teacher, you will find this book an invaulable source of craft ideas for keeping fun in this holiday.

Here are just a few of the ideas in this book:

* Edible Crafts
* Party Games for Kids
* Halloween Scrapbook Ideas
* Halloween Crafts For Preschool Kida
* Learning Pumpkin Carvving
* Coloring Pages, Paper Crafts, Outdoor Decorations and much, much more. ... Read more

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All new diabolical ideas from the bestselling author of Extreme Pumpkins- the ultimate guide to reviving the grisly true spirit of Halloween.

From baking hemorrhaging desserts to burying family and friends alive, the outrageous projects in this guide will inspire readers to transform the house, the yard, the kids, and the wardrobe for the scariest Halloween ever. Some of the spooky ideas include:

• Alligator in the Leaf Pile
• Toilet Bowl of Candy
• Fog Your Yard
• Buried Alive
• Turning a Garage into a Haunted House
• A Cake that Bleeds
• Costumes to Disturb and Amuse

For any fan of Halloween, this extreme celebration will spook, inspire, and help freak out the neighbors. ... Read more

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originality at halloween
This is a great book for the Halloween freak (I am one), who has probably already seen almost everything published in this category.The projects are unique and not too difficult; this saves time in an otherwise very busy month!They appeal to the younger folks as well; book is full of a variety of fun hints, too.Something for everyone, obviously put together by a very creative author.

save your money
I was very disappointed in this book.Any fan of Halloween over the years has heard or done everything that this book has to offer. Most of the ideas are very lame or just not practical. Nothing in the book is scary. The only thing that comes even close to creepy amounts to assembling a body out of expensive cuts of meat to form an edible "corpse" which turns out to be the main course for your supper. After looking at it lying on a sheet for hours, who could possibly eat it? Save your money.

OK
It was OK.I was a little disappointed, and expected more especially with regards to home decorations and food ideas.I do, however, plan to use the pumpkin puking guacamole idea, so that was worth buying the book. Just don't expect it to be as complete a guide as the product description touts.The pumpkin images were good though, and the tips for working with them were great.

Halloween Fanatics Unite!
What's not to love.AWESOME book of pumpkin ideas for the Halloween lover!A must read!

What to do when you're really really bored
I love this entire series and the author's website.Someday when I have enough time, I will build a vegetable monster but until then, it's great to thumb through the books and laugh like a mad scientist. ... Read more

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A collection of twenty Halloween projects. ... Read more

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Did you know that Halloween is America's second favorite holiday for creating crafts? With these delightful projects, anyone can make their next Halloween event "scream" with style! Decorate for indoor or outdoor Halloween parties, special family get-togethers, or the neighborhood trick-or-treaters with a variety of fast, fun projects for crafters at any skill level.

· Twenty projects include a table runner with matching napkins, fanciful fabric pumpkins, a wall quilt, painted glassware, party invitations and favors, luminaries, and a floor cloth

· Find a range of craft techniques, from sewing and stamping to patchwork and painting--there's even a lesson on perfect pumpkin carving

· Inspiring photos are filled with Halloween decorating and entertaining ideas for kids and adults alike

· Projects come from popular designers including Sandy Bonsib, Jaynette Huff, Linda Johnson, Little Quilts, Livia McRee, Jenni Page, and Sheila Haynes Rauen ... Read more

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Terrific, original ideas that won't break the bank!
Although the cover of my book is different from the one shown (I have the softcover edition), the crafts in this book are clever, easy to make and the directions are top-notch. Some of the crafts require kit purchases (haunted bird house & candy corn candles), but everything else can be crafted from scratch. I especially liked the witch's hat invitations, the cat banner and the cardstock lanterns, lit with glow sticks. I own every Halloween craft book (with the exception of Martha Stewart's) that Amazon offers and this is right at the top of the pile when it's time to think about Halloween. Enjoy! ... Read more

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Within these colourful pages, readers will find fifty beautiful, vintage looking Halloween crafts and party recipes and learn how to use them to create a special holiday. Detailed, step-by-step instructions allow all crafters to create these unique projects, including "Instant Ancestors" (faux gravestones) and a scarecrow wreath -- many could even become family heirlooms. Most projects are quick and simple, requiring not much more than a glue gun, sewing and painting. More than 100 beautiful photos show the finished craft as well as guide the reader throughout the creation process. Features: 50 upscale, beautiful, vintage looking Halloween crafts and party recipes; Stunning photos and detailed illustrations; Anecdotes about Halloween past and present.Amazon.com Review
As a regular on TV's Bewitched, Kasey Rogers (Louise Tate) has the right pedigree to produce Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decor. She and coauthor Mark Wood have dreamed up some pretty innovative approaches to such timeworn Halloween delights as pumpkin carving, table decorating, and party giving. Rather than limit carving to traditional orange pumpkins, they offer devilish red imps made of bumpy gourds and green glow-stick eyes, or a jaunty goblin king carved of green hubbard squash. A decrepit old butler figure presides over the "graveyard tea," and the "harvest of skulls" centerpiece features a tower of grinning plastic skulls topped with drippy black (electric) candles. A quartet of simple recipes makes up the "Boo-fey," along with two versions of punch contributed by another Bewitched alumnus, Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay). The home-snapshot quality of the photographs is the one weak spot in this otherwise commendable book. Still, enough details are generally visible to help clarify the occasionally confusing directions, and the step-by-steps are mostly adequately explained. A source list provides contact information for the harder-to-find items. --Amy Handy ... Read more

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Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decor by Kasey Rogers
This is an excellent book, full of ideas and easy to understand instructions on how to create each project.Kasey Rogers was "Mrs. Tate" on the original "Bewitched" and she and Mark Wood (actor/singer/artist) have put together a wonderfully elegant (if you prefer elegance and mystique over skulls and horror Halloween . . . and I do) book.I also have another book by these authors as well:"Create a Bewitched Fall-o-ween: 45 Projects for Decorating and Entertaining."

Special note to Amazon:Thank you for going above and beyond to find this book for me.

Good Book For Staters
Great book with getting you started with Halloween projects.








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Good, but it tries hard to disguise the fact!
Since I live in Australia, and Halloween isn't a big deal here, I was looking for something inspirational with clear how-tos to get started with.When I first received this book I was disappointed, but it really started to grow on me!I actually ended up basing most of my decorating on ideas in this book, but I didn't realise it at first!The photos are grainy, and some of the instructions aren't all that clear, but once you get past that, it's not too bad!It has some good ideas for a Halloween first-timer like me, that will actually look a lot better than the photos in the book lead you to believe.Be warned though - most of the ideas involve pumpkins or gourds in one way or another! What this book really needs is a makeover - new photos, and a little re-working on some of the instructions, and it would be great.If glossy photos are your thing, skip this and try Martha Stewart's Halloween book instead, but this one is really a diamond in the rough.

Elegant, indeed, but with a sense of spooky fun!
Ideas with class, but practical. That's what I found in this delightful, pretty book. The materials recommended are, refreshingly, things I can actually get (and afford), right here in the isolated, imagination-starved desert of non-creativity where I live. It's so nice to see clearly written, well-conceived craft projects for Halloween that can really be done outside the major coastal metropolitan areas without paying for shipping and waiting six weeks for half the materials!

As far as the style, I grew up on Samantha and company, so it all has a "just right for a grown-up Halloween" feel to it for me. I grew out of gore years ago, but I still know that elegant does not have to equal stiff (as in some of Auntie Martha S's stuff ;->), and cheap doesn't have to equal tacky, if you just add a little personal talent of your own to spice it up. I already had the talent, now I have new ideas, with instructions, pictures, and even text that gently engages my own creative spirit! Lovin' this...

Je ne sais quoi...
After seeing how many 5 star reviews this book got I began to think there was something wrong with me.I didn't LOVE this book.One of the 1 star reviewers hit the nail on the head.There is just something about this book that I can't warm up to.The crafts were nice, different than most, but they were somewhat repetitive.Many, many pumpkin, squash, and gourd arrangements.There were a couple of other things interspersed, wreaths, figures, recipes.But mostly it was piles of pumpkins.And there was no joie de vive.Please excuse the French, but to say there was "no joy of life" in the book would sound a little stupid.Halloween is more a celebration of death.But most of the arrangements were dull.

The two sections that caught my eye were the 'Old-Fashioned Party Fans and Favors' in Chapter 7, and Chapter 8. I have a weakness for Halloween collectibles and retro designs.And Chapter 8 had good party advice, like sticking to a theme rather than jumping all around.

The authors are talented, and apparently have a feeling for the holiday, but I would like to see a little more fun, and a little less seriousness. ... Read more

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The Huge HALLOWEEN RECIPES & CRAFTS eBOOK for the Kindle contains 286 pages of traditional and creative Halloween Recipes & Crafts! Perfect for your Halloween party or for fun activity ideas for the kids! Here are just a few of the great recipes & ideas that you will receive:

• Edible Spiders
• Eerie Eyeballs
• Creepy Witches' Fingers
• Spooky Sandwiches
• Creepy Crispy Crunchies
• Witches' Brew
• Bleeding Human Heart
• Jack O' Lantern Burgers
• Eyeball Tacos
• Bat Wings
• Spider Cookies
• Edible Monsters
• Halloween Pumpkin Bread
• Scary Balloon Bats
• Halloween Pumpkin Family Centerpiece
• Nifty Halloween Magnets
• AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

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junk
dont bother, most pages are blank while other great tips are for cardboard tombstones and bobbing for apples. wow. i know just a dollar, but not worth a nickel. ... Read more

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Nothing new here
The book is cleverly laid out, with good illustraions and cute cartoons, but the craft ideas are really lame. If you're looking for interesting or unusual ideas, try Hocus Pocus: Halloween Crafts for a Spooktacular Holiday by Martingale and Company. Everything from invitations to decorations and food.

Wonderful photos....but the crafts...???
I bought this book at a deep discount thinking I would be able to whip up all kinds of wonderful Halloween spooky things to decorate my house with. The pictures on the front cover looked promising.
However, when I opened it up and looked inside, I realized that a lot of the crafts were very cheap. And I don't mean cheap as in money wise. I mean as in cheaply made, that they were not likely to last more than one season. It's my thought that if you put time and effort in to a display, you should be able to reuse it!
Another thing was the inclusion of wierd things like a pattern for a chameleon. Lizards in general are scary, but isn't Halloween usually reserved for snakes and toads? I don't find chameleons too intimidating, personally.
And a third thing was the bits of information in the book about the holiday...a few were incorrect, or were based on popular assumptions and not on actual research. Being that I'm a Halloween buff, I've researched this stuff so I know it's wrong, but maybe other people don't care that much. If not, the blurbs of info are entertaining.
I'm keeping the book because it has3 or 4 really cute projects that would come out nicely, and the pictures are great for other ideas (One gave me the idea to create a spooky birdcage with a raven in it.)
All in all...it's a good one to supplement if you have several other books on Halloween decorating, but I wouldn't suggest this be your only book.

Original Country Ideas
Well written, cute illustrations. Lots of beautiful photographs. This book is aimed towards the halloween Crafter. Many cute ideas that could be modified or expanded upon for details in the corners of your home haunt. Not a book for the serious hard-core haunter. ... Read more

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Host a magical Halloween with this collection of frightfully fun crafts! Most of these projects can be completed in an afternoon, from shimmering beaded spiderwebs to party crackers that open with a loud "pop!" to reveal a gush of goodies.

• Use easy sewing, stamping, and painting techniques to make 20 projects

• Decorate with mosaic lanterns, cauldron-shaped candles, and a festive banner for the front door

• Conjure up the perfect party with stylish invitations, etched glasses, pumpkin placemats, and candy-coated pretzels ... Read more

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Wonderful Halloween Craft Book
This is a great book for halloween crafts, full of creative ideas!There are wonderful pictures for each project.The directions are clear and make each project seem easy.I find it geared more towards kids, which is fine since I am looking for books for both children & adult party ideas.

One of the best halloween craft books
I have a few other halloween craft books but this is one of the best.Most of the crafts were easy enough for my children to do and great for school parties.

Most creative Halloween craft book in years!
If you're looking for something really different, check out this great book. I've made a few of the cards, the pumpkin placemats and the party crackers. There are so many great ideas in here, you won't know where to start!

I collect Halloween books and it's always a treat to find a good one. Several came out this year, but this one really takes the cake! Directions are clear, projects are just terrific. Enjoy! ... Read more