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HALLOWEEN The Jackson SunPage 7B Sunday, Oct. 18,1992 fun makeyp Dress up your house Making pumpkin ni3SkS Here's how, using easy-to-f ind materials. Gannett News Service Speckles of gold and red have crept into the edges of the trees. The night breezes have turned chilly and thoughts are turning to ghosties and ghoulies. October is here.

That's right, Halloween is j. r-" coming. You still have time to get out and make your house appropriately scary for the trick or treaters who will be without makeup it is unfinished. Makeup is the perfect way to complete the illusion. Abbott says the average American kitchen if full of "spooktacular" Halloween makeup ideas: Apply cake mascara or dark eye shadow with a moist sponge to create sideburns, beards, mustaches or an overall dark complexion.

Chalk mixed together with shortening and applied to the face can turn your children white as ghosts. To create animal whiskers, take angel hair pasta or very thin spaghetti, spray it black, then apply it with eyelash adhesive, which is made to be used on skin. One alternative is to use straw from a broom. Make eyebrows disappear using two applications of a thick paste of facial soap and water. Cover it with foundation and draw new shapes in place of the eyebrows.

Yarn or "crepe wool" from a hair bun applied with a mixture of flour and water can create a flowing beard. Cut off the end of an old nylon stocking or use a swimming cap to create a bald head. Glue on bits of crepe wool and you have a frightening wig. Want to create oozing sores? Coat the arm with baking soda, then spray it with vinegar. Lipstick mixed with yellow eye shadow can create bruises.

"No one says you have to look pretty on Halloween," Abbott says. To make those nifty little electric bolts on Herman Mun-ster's neck, Abbott suggests using styrofoam packing peanuts or lightweight cork. Paint them black with watercolor and adhere each right to the skin with a mixture of flour and water. Parents should be sure to supervise all makeup application and when the little "Mun-sters" have returned from terrorizing the neighborhood, Abbott suggests using baby shampoo to remove makeup and glue. It works easily, gently, and painlessly.

From wire reports Hollywood makeup artist offers inexpensive tips to create the perfect Halloween look. LOS ANGELES Spaghetti, flour and chalk are some everyday household items parents can use to turn their children into little "Munster" this Halloween. One Hollywood makeup artist says it's not necessary to buy expensive makeup kits to create scary faces. "Master makeup artists all learned their craft by improvising with whatever makeup kits they had available," says Larry Abbott, a 30-year veteran of movies including "Planet of the Apes" and such classic television programs as "The Mun-sters." This Halloween Abbott is a spokesperson for Hostess Munster Packs specially marked packages of cupcakes offering free Halloween masks based upon characters from the mid-1960s TV series. No matter what the costume, knocking on your door.

Why leave all the fun to the kids? Here are some tips on dressing up your house and yard: A cemetery is an easy, and frightening, tableau for the yard or porch. You have two options for tombstones. The cheaper is a Materials Inexpensive children's sunglasses Poster board in various colors Scissors; glue Instruction I Enlarge pumpkin patterns onto tissue paper to the desired size. Trace pumpkin outlines onto poster board; cut out. Trace eye shapes on wrong side of mask and cut out shape within this area.

Cut shape for nose. Pop plastic lenses from sunglasses. Glue sunglasses to wrong side of mask. I Cut facial shapes from tissue paper pattern. Trace onto assorted colors of poster board; cut out.

I Glue shapes to masks. Lisa Young, Gannett News Service 1 1 1 1 II i-i Vr Source: Holiday Cralts Author details pumpkin projects, facts for kids TTTTTTTT Wouldn't you like to take 50 of your closest friends to a private movie showing at Regal Cinemas? Enter The Jackson Sun's Preview Movie Trivia Contest and register to WIN! Look for details and entry blanks in Thursday's Preview magazine. Brought to you by: ITS piece of plywood from the lumber store. Saw it into the shape of a tombstone and paint it Stake it into the ground, or saw a board to size and nail it to the bottom for a stand. The more expensive material is styrofoam insulation board, the material of choice, which can also be purchased at builder's stores.

It is easier to cut and the edges can be sanded to give the look of hewn rock. For an added touch, layer a bag of landscaping dirt in front of the tombstone to create a "just-buried" effect. Plastic hands poked into this dirt create a "buried-too-soon" look. To make a coffin from plywood, just cut it into the shape of a coffin for the bottom. Nail 2-foot-by-4-foot boards to the inside edges of the bottom, cut the side panels from plywood sheets and nail these to the 2-foot-by-4-foot boards.

Fluorescent paint and fake blood add a garish look to your basic ghoulish black tombstone. Both these can be purchased at party shops. Black lights to make your fluorescent paint glow are available in both tube and incandescent bulb styles. You can make bodies from old clothes picked up at garage sales. Stuff children's pajamas the kind with the feet with foam packaging peanuts, then put a broom handle down one of the legs and up the back to make them stand up.

A foam wig stand with an old Halloween mask over it makes a good "head" for the beast Gloves stuffed with packaging peanuts form the hands, old shoes the feet Spiderwebs, the old Halloween standby, can be picked up at party stores in a wad of cotton form. Stretched out and tacked to the corner of a window they resemble spider webs. Make your own by stretching string between the corners of a window and then knotting and twisting additional strands into a web pattern. This makes a web strong enough to hold rubber spiders. ing maple pumpkin cookies.

Some of the best ideas are the most simple like serving up soup in a pumpkin tureen. There's also the basics on carving up jack-o'-lanterns. Safety tips are included. The drawings are lively and the instructions are down to the last detail. Throughout the book (Storey Communications, there's a sprinkling of pumpkin facts, poems and pilgrim lore.

For example, the pilgrims baked the pumpkin in the ashes of a fire. When it was cooked, they removed the top and added honey and maple syrup to the warm pumpkin inside! As the early settlers said: "We have pumpkins at morning, And pumpkins at noon, If it were not for pumpkins, We would soon be undoon." By JANICE HUGHES The Associated Press Everything's coming up pumpkins. And that means more than jack-o'-lanterns in Jennifer Storey Gillis' book, "In A Pumpkin Shell." Paint 'em, bake 'em, dry 'em, use 'em as a soup bowl. Make music with the seeds. Grow them square.

Storey Gillis does a great job explaining to kids how to grow pumpkins. Choosing seeds, pulling weeds, (watch out for that stem!) it's all there. And if you do end up with a big harvest, or if you just buy at the local store, Storey Gillis is full of easy, inexpensive ideas. Among the 20 or so pumpkin projects: stringing together a pumpkin seed necklace, making a seed tambourine and, in the food category, cooking up nutty pumpkin waffles and bak 61 SMSBft 71 CONRAD DRIVE 668-2687 ft mm MOTLEY'S HARDWOOD FLOORS JtKL Residential Office Commercial 27 Year Experience CUSTOM STAINING FINISHING Polyurethane Finishes Clean Wax Hardwood Parquet Pre-flnlshed Laying Sanding Reflnlshlng Contractors Rates FREE ESTIMATES CORDUROY PRINTED All Work Guaranteed Vernon Motley References 422-5875 H8E JesterConor 45" wasnou Jackson peg- 60- SUEOECLOTH cashable Polyester. ENTIRE STOCK CHALLIS mm to $9.98 yd.

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