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As the light fades gets into the Halloween spirit by watching a really scary movie like The Shining, Poltergist, A Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween! The object of the game is to grab an apple in your mouth without using your hands. Pin the Wart on the Witch - draw a witch on a large piece of paper and make enough witch’s warts for all your friends. Then blindfold the players, spin them around three times or give them a drink or two and get them to pin the wart on the witch! More Halloween News

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Okay, this year is your year! You’re determined to take home the prize for the most creative Halloween costume this year, and you don’t care who gets hurt in the process! (Sorry, seasonal humor!) Let’s ponder a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing for ways to make this year’s costume one for the ages!

My best strategy for winning a Halloween costume contest is to be overtly original. If you buy your costume off the rack either online or off, you’re pretty much doomed to failure. If they’ve seen it, they’ve seen it! Originality is everything here, and you can’t afford to be like the crowd if you want to win the contest!

One great way to make a creative costume is to play off of a recent news story involving a famous person. Costumes of this nature will work out even better if the news story has been embarrassing or misfortunate. Consider some examples of just how you can pull it off. You could choose to dress up as Paris Hilton, well accessorized and dressed in a prison outfit. Other options could be Lindsay Lohan desperately searching for a fix, the Obama girl, or Michael Vick dragging a dead dog behind him on a leash.

This type of costume can work out extremely well. Unfortunately, it can also completely fail if other people are not able to recognize you easily. If you do not naturally look anything like the celebrity that you are trying to dress as, you will need to invest a lot of effort into your make up and hair so you can make the costume believable.

Not only that, but you need to be sold out to the idea of portraying this person. That means acting like they would act, talking like they would talk, and in general becoming that person for the duration of the party. (Or at least until the judging is done!)

Make sure you fit into this costume concept. If you’re trying to portray Will Smith when your body more closely resembles Norbitt, then we’ve got a problem from the get-go! Also, if your costume has you exposed more than you might be normally, make sure you can live with this. If you’re going to dress up as Brittany Spears and are uncomfortable showing the amount of everything she shows, then rethink your costume! If you look the least bit uncomfortable either in concept or execution, people will notice.

If you are going as a couple, just be sure and not do what everyone else has done before. Originality wins, particularly in couples contests!

Make sure you have some fun! That’s the bottom line here in all of this. If you come up with a great costume but aren’t enjoying both the process and the contest, then what’s the point?

Homemade children’s Halloween costumes can be fun to make if your children help, but you have to consider the cost and time you put into it if the children are not participating and learning how to do it with you. Sometimes it can be more economical to save your time and buy a ready made costume at the prices now available in the shops.

One way to ensure you do not spend excessive time on making a costume from the raw material on up, is to start with old clothes from the family closet or a thrift shop. That way, most of your effort goes into the fun part your children enjoy being part of - making the accessories and getting made up for the part.

Think about one simple example of a child’s costume: a scarecrow. More than likely, you can find an old pair of slightly ripped jeans, an old shirt, and a big straw hat that can serve as the key parts of the outfit. Then, add pieces of straw to the cuffs of the pants and the shirt, as well as to the bottom of the hat.

The details could include a bird sitting on the scarecrow’s hat and some creative face painting. The idea is to create a unique and interesting look.

A basic pirate costume could be made from little more than an old shirt and cut down old jeans, with a bandana around the head. Your main effort would go into setting up the accessories such as a broad belt and sword, an eye patch, face painting and artificial tattoos.

A basic low cost outfit of stretch pants and a long sleeved turtle top is another way to get the starting foundation for a costume. A black outfit like this needs only a black cape and a witch’s hat and you have the beginnings of a witch’s costume.

Other colors could become animal costumes with the addition of a tail, ears, mittens and some face paint. Some costume shops have partial costumes such as faces, noses, tails and ears available to add these features to your basic costume.

For a tiger, for example, some black fabric paint on a yellow outfit could be used to create stripes. A little stuffing under a yellow outfit and you have the beginnings of a plump Winnie The Pooh.

Now, a lot of people visit their physicians and emergency rooms with newspaper clippings and printouts from websites in hand and, invariably, they are convinced they have a grave, potentially fatal disease such as cancer and, almost invariably, they have some minor ailment, if anything. Just over a month later, she underwent a hysterectomy (removal of the ovaries and uterus) and then chemotherapy, which began on Halloween and ended on Valentine’s Day. The challenge, he said, is for general practitioners to diagnose ovarian cancer early, given the rather vague symptoms and the fact that those symptoms are virtually identical to other far more common conditions such as urinary tract infection and inflammatory bowel disease. He said making women aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer is important to ensure the illness is caught early when it’s treatable. An estimated 2,500 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 1,700 women will die from the disease in 2008, according to projections done by the National Cancer Institute of Canada. More Halloween News

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