HOMEMADE HALLOWEEN MAKEUP, FACE PAINT, BRUISES AND FAKE BLOOD
Subject:
Halloween Craft
Grade:
All (with adult assistance for the young ones)
Age:
All (with adult assistance for the young ones)
Submitted by: Amanda Formaro, WebMom at FamilyCorner.com Magazine.
Dressing up for Halloween is so much fun! Enjoy it even more knowing
that you and your little goblins prepared their faces for the frightful
night. Face paint is inexpensive when you make it yourself, and it's
safer than a mask that can obscure vision. Try these ghoulish recipes
yourself!
Homemade Bruises
You will need:
- deep blue powder eyeshadow
- charcoal or smoke gray powder eyeshadow
- shimmery green powder eyeshadow
- make up brush
Using a blot of deep blue powder eye shadow, apply with a wet make up
brush. Use your fingertips to add blots of charcoal gray and blue
shadows. Touch up the edges with a shimmery olive green. Smudge the
bruise to complete.
Homemade Blood
You will need:
- 1/2 bottle of light corn syrup
- very hot water
- squirt of liquid soap
- red food coloring
- blue or green food coloring (optional)
Pour light corn syrup into a bowl and add hot water sparingly, adding
and stirring until you have the right consistency. Add a squirt of
liquid soap to make it the blood easy to clean off later. Tint with red
food coloring. You may add a drop of blue or green if you like to make
the blood a darker color. Store in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Smear on as needed!
Copyright 2000, Amanda Formaro
Recommended Books:
Halloween Costumes
As with the other books in the Singer series, this one offers great step-by-step instructions and detailed color photos that are fairly easy to follow and yield very polished results.
Crafts for Halloween
by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm
Black cats, ghosts, and spiders come to life in a simple, illustrated guide to creating the perfect decorations for Halloween, designed so that even very young children can use readily available materials to master these holiday crafts.
Biography:
Amanda Formaro is the entrepreneurial mother of four children. She and
her husband live in southeastern Wisconsin. She is also the owner of
FamilyCorner.com Magazine. Subscribe to her free holiday newsletter,
Family Holidays, by sending any email message to
holidays-on@mail-list.com or by visiting her website at
http://familycorner.com
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