French Paper Halloween Costume
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An adaptation of a paper costume described in La Mode Illustrée 1926
What a delight to have found this fun and relatively easy-to-make Halloween party costume!
Fortune Telling with Apples
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Bite the Apple
At the left is an example of a traditional Victorian-era Halloween game.
Apples are suspended by means of string from doorways, or in this case, a ceiling, at a height that allows them to be caught between the teeth. Then, with hands at their sides, the first player who successfully takes a bite from [...]
Bean and Nut Games
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Walnut Boats
Open English walnuts, remove meat, and in each half shell fasten short pieces of differently colored birthday candles, each of which is to be named for a member of the party and, after lighting, set afloat in a large pan or tub of water. The behavior of these tiny boats reveals the future of [...]
The Enchanted Pumpkin
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When your little brother or sister has a birthday party and you want a novelty for the tea table, try the “enchanted pumpkin,” and see what fun it will make for the guests.
It ought to be a prize pumpkin, and a big one. Scoop out all the inside. That will do well enough to make [...]
Web of Fate
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Long bright colored strings, of equal length, are twined and intertwined to form a web. Use half as many strings as there are guests.
Remove furniture from center of a large room - stretch a rope around the room, from corner to corner, about four feet from the floor. Tie one end of each string to [...]
