GHOST HUNTERS

It's the season of glow sticks, but they aren't just sticks to put inside a pumpkin or around one's wrist anymore. They are now the cheap and easy product to make everything hauntingly cool! Here's a ton of ways to use those bags of glow sticks and make easy, impressive, and inexpensive crafts - Glow sticks are epic in their unlimited fun -  Doll heads? Remove the eyes and have fun!  No dangerous candles needed - These glow pumpkin lights above are described here ( LINK ).  This would be an awesome touch to front porch steps -  Toilet paper interior rolls or cut up paper towel rolls, scissors, glow sticks, and some bushes to put them in -  Balloons, water, glow sticks, stockings -  Vases with fake eyeballs and glow sticks.  Water jugs or paper maiche pumpkins made over top a balloon that was popped once it was hardened - Toadstools -  White balloons, cheesecloth, glow sticks, fishing wire -  Pumpkins or watermelons - carving - glow sticks in...

Halloween masks of the 70s and 80s were plastic store-bought variety, but prior to that, folks made their own masks often times. Some of the masks they came up with were very unsettling. I believe they are much scarier than any "realistic" werewolf and clown masks of today. Part of the charm was that these masks were vague. What exactly where these people dressing up as? And the emotionless blob-shaped faces were robotic and unsettling. They were just enough human-like but then something "other" that was indistinguishable. The basis for a mask is easy. Craft stores and even online at Amazon , you can get a basic mask to work with.  You will want to texture it. This can be done with strips of cut fabric like an old t-shirt, and a mix of half Elmer's glue mixed with half water. Dip the strips, take off excess liquid, start slapping them on the mask. You could also use newspaper instead of fabric, or cheesecloth if you want a weird texture, even pantyhose for fine ...