Halloween Wizard Ornament
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 Wizard ornament with blue hat! |
Congratulations – You’re done!! |
But wait – there’s more.
Tomorrow we’ll make a black cat from a paper plate! Cool!!
Activities
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 22 – Crashed Witch
Make crashed witch in school
- Choose a place to nail the witch, a wall, a door, a tree or a pole.
Begin to make your witch!
- First you need legs, and a pair of striped tights or long socks work great!
- Stuff the feet with paper or old fabric and
- insert two pieces of wood of equal length.
- Add shoes. Preferably laced shoes so you can tie them tightly to the ankles.
- Make sure your legs are of equal length – then nail them to the tree.
- Using a pair of rubber gloves, stuff the fingers to make the hands look realistic.
- Then attach them to two more lengths of wood, using rubber bands.
- Insert the wood with the hands attached into the sleeves of a shirt or sweatshirt
- best to do it wood stick first from the wrist to the back with the hand going into the sleeve last.
- Nail the “arms” to the tree.
- We added a cape but you can use a black trash bag for her cloak.
- Above that attach a wig or lengths of yarn for her hair.
- And on top of that – nail a black witch’s hat to the tree.
- Finally – attach a broom to the back of the witch.
- You can find brooms cheaply at craft stores and in some supermarkets
And there you have it – a crashed witch.
Viewed from either the back or front, it’s very funny.
Tomorrow – a wonderful wizard ornament!
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 21 – Glass Spider Web Plate
Glass Spider Web Plate
What you need:
- Clear glass plate
- Black glass paint.
This hack is simple and fun.
What you do:
- 1. Wash the plate and dry it so there are no water spots on it.
- 2. Turn it over.
- 3. Using the black glass paint draw lines on the back to create a spider’s web.
- 4. Turn the plate back over and admire your work!
Glass Spider Web Plate
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 20 – Witch’s Legs Book Mark
Witch’s Legs Book Mark
What you need for a pair of witch’s legs book marks.
- Fancy patterned straws
- Glitter construction paper
- Template for witches’ shoes
- Glue
Directions:
- Cut the straws in half and then squash them so they lie flat.
- Fold the construction paper in half and cut out the shape of the shoes through both sides of the paper.
- Glue the shoes.
- Then carefully put a small amount of glue into one end of the straw and put the top of the shoe in that end.
- Press down or use a paper clip to hold in place until the glue is dry.
Witch’s Legs Book Mark – shoe and leg
Witch’s Legs Book Mark
Witch’s Legs Book Mark!
Tomorrow – a spider web plate
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 19 – One-Eyed Eggs
One- Eyed Eggs
What you need:
- 12 eggs
- mayonnaise
- cilantro
- stuffed olives.
Directions:
- Hard boil 12 eggs.
- When cool, peel them under running water.
- Carefully slice the eggs in half lengthwise.
- Scoop out the cooked egg yolks into a small bowl.
- Add 2 tbsp mayonnaise or wasabi mayo (for a kittle kick) and some chopped cilantro.
- Mix.
- Using a teaspoon scoop a ball of the the egg yolk mixture and place in the empty egg white halves.
- Top with a slice of stuffed olive to look like an eye.
One-Eyed Eggs – easy for all the family to make
One-Eyed Eggs – look great in a circle!
Tomorrow – it’s legs all the way!
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 17 – Halloween Witch Ornament
Halloween Witch Ornament
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Confatulations – You’re done!! |
But wait – there’s more.
In the same family we’re going to make a Wizard and a Bat! Stay tuned!!!
Tomorrow – Chocolate Spider Balls.
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 18 – Chocolate Spider Balls
Chocolate Spider Balls
- Preparation time: 1 hr + 3 hr chilling the cake.
- Cooking time: 50 mins.
What you need:
For the Cheese cake:
- 3 packages (8 oz) cream cheese, soften at room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 eggs
For the Chocolate coating:
- 8 o.z. chocolate confectioners coating.
Garnish:
- 1 bag of mini pretzel sticks, white frosting.
Serving size: 24 spiders.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar together, then mix in sour cream.
- Add flour, vanilla and salt.
- Add eggs one at a time, mix well but do not over mix.
- Pour the mixture in a 9-inch baking pan.
- Bake under 350F for about 50 minutes or until the edge is slightly golden brown.
* NOTE: Do not over bake! Otherwise a tough film of cheese will form on the surface. It wouldn’t be pleasant to eat or make into cake balls.
- Cool the cake then put it in the fridge to cool for 3 hours or overnight.
Decorating the cake balls:
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
- Use a ice cream scoop to scoop out balls of cheese cake, about 1.5-inch diameter; gently roll the balls so the cake is packed well.
- Break the pretzel sticks into 0.5-inch fragments. Stick 4 little sticks into one side of the cake balls and another 4 on the opposite side.
- Put the chocolate coating in a microwavable bowl, and melt it in the microwave as directed on the package.
- Dip the balls in the melted chocolate. Use a fork and a spoon to hold and turn the balls.
- Put the coated cake balls on the lined baking sheet and refrigerate until the chocolate is set.
- Dot the eyes using white frosting.
Another fun recipe tomorrow – one-eyed eggs!
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 16 Coloring Pages to Download
Download Heckerty’s Coloring Pages!
Do you like to color in? Most kids do. And that includes kids of all ages.
Don’t tell anyone but some big kids like to color in too!
We have lovely coloring pages to download and color in. The images come from all the Heckerty stories:
Those stories are: Meet Heckerty, Heckerty Cook, Zanzibar’s Birthday and Heckerty’s Valentine.
We hope you enjoy the pictures and that you color them in with lots of bright colors!
To download – click on an image!
Coloring Pages – Zanzibar’s Birthday Party
Heckerty’s Valentine – Shall we ring or knock?
Heckerty’s Valentine – Heckerty and Zanzibar
Zanzibar’s Birthday
Tomorrow – one of the coolest Hacks we have – we make a Halloween Ornament Witch!
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 15 Rubber Band Jewelry
Rubber Band Jewelry in Orange and Black
What you need:
Loom or substitute with an adapted plastic fork
Orange rubber bands
Black rubber bands
If you have a rainbow loom, you can make the bracelet with it.
If you don’t have one – here is a quick and easy way to make one!
You need a plastic fork.
Rubber Band Jewelry from a simple plastic fork
Remove the middle two tines
Rubber band jewelry – make a figure 8 with the first band and then add two more bands without twists.
Take the first rubber band and make a figure 8 putting one of the circles of the twisted rubber band over one tine and the other one over the second tine. Add two more rubber bands – bring one side of the bottom rubber band over the top of the tine – and do the same on the other side. Add another rubber band. Again – pull the bottom rubber band – one side at a time over the tines – add another rubber band. Continue until there’s enough to make a bracelet.
Rubber Band Jewelry – lift both sides of the bottom band into the middle, and add another band.
Use one of the c clips that came with the rubber bands to join the two ends together.
Other great Halloween combinations are orange and green,
orange and purple, and purple and black.
Rubber Band Jewelry in orange and green
Rubber Band Jewelry- make a necklace too
Tomorrow – download coloring pages!
Heckerty’s Halloween Hacks – Day 14 – Paint a Spooky House
Paint a spooky house!
What you need to paint a spooky house:
Wooden bird house to paint from craft shop
Painter’s tape
Black paint
Purple paint
Orange paint
Wooden slim coffee stirrers from Starbucks/Einstein’s etc
Foam Halloween stickers
Buy a plain birdhouse to paint a spooky house
Remove the little perch from the house.
We cut ours off and sanded the area so that the paint would go on flat.
Paint the roof of the house black being careful to paint along the sides of the roof too.
When the roof is dry, apply painter’s tape on the edges to stop the purple paint landing
in the wrong place.
Paint the walls of the house purple.
First paint the roof black and then the walls purple when you Paint a Spooky House
Paint a black door on to the front.
Carefully paint the wooden stirring sticks a muddy brown.
Break them unevenly into pieces.
Make a fence around the house using broken wooden stirring sticks.
When the paint is all dry – remove the painter’s tape.
Decorate the house with lots of Halloween foam stickers.
Your spooky house – painted
And next — Rubber Band Loom Jewelry – in Halloween Colors!