Halloween Crafts, Party Ideas, Recipes, and Info

If you don't can't or don't want to carve a pumpkin, try these easy, inexpensive, and last-minute ideas for decorating real or artificial pumpkins. Get inspiration for what to do with your pumpkin. None of these ideas require carving or gutting a pumpkin.

I love Halloween—every year, I make new DIY decorations and publish tutorials so others can follow along. This tutorial includes instructions and accompanying images to help you create large, spooky eyeballs to include in your Halloween display.

In the spirit of the upcoming spooky holiday season, here are some great and easy DIY costumes for your dog this Halloween that hopefully won’t end up shredded on the floor.

Every year, my family gets together to celebrate Halloween. Here are seven of our favorite Halloween party games and activities with instructions and pictures.

This article explores the origins of Halloween costumes as well as their social and religious significance throughout history.

We, white people, feel entitled to don the garb of any and all cultures, but it's often inappropriate. Here's a list of racist Halloween costumes that we absolutely should not wear.

One of the spooky traditions of Halloween is to decorate the house full of haunts and tricks! Here are three DIY Halloween crafts that are easy to make.

All over the world, humans celebrate the cycle of life: birth, adulthood, procreation, and death. However, death has always been of particular interest to people worldwide. How we deal with death is sometimes manifested through celebrations. This article will take a somewhat jaunty look at this.

I always wanted to have a go at knitting design, and one day decided to try. My design ethos is that with the simplest of knitted shapes (i.e. minimum shaping and a little imagination), you can produce some amazing creations. Here are instructions for how to knit your own Halloween mummy doll.

Every child's Halloween party should be full of imagination and fun. Here are some great, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy Halloween games!

This article includes step-by-step instructions and process photos to help you make your own DIY Woody Halloween costume. Woody is the cowboy toy from the "Toy Story" film franchise.

I made a Buddi doll for my Halloween yard display this year. It is based on the character Chucky from the horror movie "Child's Play" (2019). I've included step-by-step instructions with photos so you can follow along and make your own.

The fascinating history and origin of Halloween. Trick or Treat, Jack-o-lanters, and Halloween itself.

Pennywise is the clown from the movie "IT" that terrorizes and kills the children, so he is a perfect addition to my Halloween display. Here are step-by-step instructions with my own photos to help you make a Pennywise decoration for Halloween.

A brief history of Halloween that includes the symbolism of bats associated with the holiday.

This article includes step-by-step instructions for making a DIY Clark Kent/Superman costume. Photos of the costume I made for my son are included to help you follow along with the process.