Popcorn is a popular treat handed out on Halloween, and is always a favorite at parties! If you’re looking for more than just plain popcorn,   Popcornopolis is a premium gourmet popcorn retailer who specializes in the best-tasting flavored popcorns, caramel apples, candied nuts and confections. They’ve even designed high-tech “cones” to hold their product which will guarantee their legendary “just-popped” taste.

Their best-selling items include Gourmet Zebra Popcorn, Best of Popcornopolis Gift Basket, 3-Way Popcorn Chocolate Lovers Tin, and Gourmet Caramel Popcorn. Plus, all of their “Create-Your-Own” items are wildly popular.

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Kids of all ages are looking forward to Halloween – it’s hard to say who has more fun with it – little kids or older ones (or the adults!). It’s the time when they can play tricks on other kids and older people and they also get a chance to ask for candies and other treats from the different houses they visit while dressed up as their favorite character du jour.  During Halloween Season, you will often see lawns decorated with pumpkins and spooky props including monsters, vampires and coffins. Some people even use lighting and sound effects to help make their yards extra scary.

If you would like to put pumpkins on your lawn, you might be looking for designs for pumpkin painting.  Decorating pumpkins with paint is not that hard (I think it’s easier than carving!). When the Halloween season is near, you can start looking for excellent decorating ideas. You can decorate the pumpkins together with your family and closest friends.

First and foremost, you have to shop for a pumpkin that preferably has a relatively flat bottom surface. It doesn’t have to be really flat; even only a slightly flat surface on one side will do, depending on the decoration you want to paint on it. You will need to keep this in mind especially if you have smaller kids joining the painting session, but if everyone is a little bit older, usually most any pumpkin will do.

Once you’ve purchased the pumpkins, drop by your local discount or craft store. Acrylic paints are more suitable for pumpkin painting. You should get several different colors especially if you have kids helping out so that they can create their own crazy designs and color mixes.

Before you start the painting session, you first must determine the design. You can create scary designs or even funny designs. You can find a lot of designs on the Web even if you log on for just several minutes. You just have to type the words ‘pumpkin painting’ and many results will be displayed on the screen.

You can even paint silly or famous celebrity faces your pumpkins. While this is more difficult because you have to concentrate a little more on the details – give it a go and see what you come up with.  Sometimes, the goofier, the better!  Then you can put wigs and ties on that the pumpkins to accentuate the face.  (Hair is a great way to cover up any “boo boos”).  To make a good celebrity face design on the pumpkins, you simply have to put the distinguishing feature of the celebrity and exaggerate it a bit.

You can also make other designs besides faces – you can make monster designs, animal designs and many others. Pick something that you’re interested in so that it will be a lot easier to paint on the pumpkin (your creativity will come to you easier if it’s something you like).

Aside from the acrylic paints, you will need to have several different sizes of paint brushes and small containers where you can mix different colors. Sit someplace comfortable and be sure to spread lots of newspapers around. Put the paints, brushes, and other materials over the newspaper where everyone can reach them easily. Give each family member a pumpkin and then have some fun!

This can be an exciting activity for the whole family and friends for the upcoming Halloween. You can even put lights inside the pumpkin heads (if you’ve carved them out of course) to make the design more visible at night. Do your pumpkin painting a day or two before Halloween. This way, you’ll have time to prepare for your costumes, treats, candies, and other things that you will use for this very special occasion. Enjoy pumpkin painting with your family and friends.  This year’s Halloween will surely be extra memorable – and don’t forget to take pictures of your creations!

Food for thought:  use this adult size brain mold to make realistic looking, yummy edible “brains” with your favorite dessert gelatin!  The mold comes with directions and a recipe for a flesh tone brain, but you can make your brains in any color and flavor you want to suit your scary Halloween theme!

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It’s a time for children to dress up as princesses and pirates and go from house to house, calling, “Trick or Treat!” Their eyes will get big as they are rewarded with treasures and sweets. And perhaps you will celebrate Halloween by going to a costume party or a haunted house. But did you ever wonder where all this holiday gaiety came from and what it means? Author Silver RavenWolf  reveals the answers in Halloween: Customs Recipes and Spells. The book begins by sharing the history of where this harvest holiday came from. Did you know it was originally called Samhain? Samhain means “the end of summer”. Learn what the ancient people did to celebrate this holiday and how the ideas about it have changed over the years.  Did you know it has really become wildly popular in the U.S. only over the last 100 years? It’s true! You’ll also find out why ghosts and skeletons, jack-o’-lanterns and vampires are associated with October 31 of each year. (more…)

If you’re planning on having the scariest Halloween bash on your block this year you might want to spruce up the old place a bit beforehand.  This book, written by Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell offers lots of ideas for spooky tips.  The projects in this book are not intended for children but for the creative adults who want to handcraft their very own Halloween home haunt and graveyard fun!

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You may think that Halloween is only about ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. However, there is much more behind this spooky holiday.

For Pagans the world over, Halloween is a time of magic and divination–a night for honoring ancestors, celebrating the harvest, and ringing in the New Year.

In A Witch’s Halloween, bestselling author and Wiccan High Priestess Gerina Dunwich dispels the myths of this holiest of Pagan holidays and its most famous celebrants.

A Witch’s Halloween tells you all that you need to know about this sacred holiday, from the history, folklore, myths, and spells to Sabbat rituals, recipes, divination,  Halloween superstitions–and much more.

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