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HALLOWEEN PARTY PLANNER Creepy Crafts Party Tips Pumpkin Carving Tips Halloween Activities Fun Facts Tricks for Treats The Derrick & The NewsHerald October 9, 2020 2 Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 The Derrick / The News-Herald PARTY PLANNING MADE EASY Looking for tips on how to pieces, and gummy worms. plan a Halloween party? Create Stockpile a variety of candy. a Halloween party planning Include various options such as checklist to ensure your chocolate, gummy candy, and Halloween celebrations have all sugary candy. of the necessities! Once you’ve planned your October fun with Decorations family and friends, review the Choose spectacular decorations checklist to make sure you’ve to accent your Halloween party covered all the Halloween party theme. Decide whether you basics. will create the Halloween party decorations yourself or purchase Here are the essential Halloween them from your local party party checklist items to help you store. Choose a spooky haunted get started with your planning: fun night for the kids. Make the with ghosts for a spooky haunted party complete with Halloween house themed party. Select house theme for the party. Add costume contests and lots of invitations with pumpkins for a decorations such as ghosts, Date candy. Hire a local band or DJ kids themed party. mummies in bandages, and Pick the perfect date for your to play music and entertain gravestones to your checklist Halloween party. Check with guests throughout the party. for planning a Halloween party. friends and family before you Food and Drink Serve delicious food and drinks Rent a fog machine from your finalize the details! Invitations to your Halloween party guests. local party store to add to the Plan a specific party theme or a Plan simple appetizers, drinks, haunted house effect. Create a Guests and Atmosphere classic Halloween party. Browse and, of course, candy. Decide spider’s lair with cotton cobwebs Make a list of guests for the selection of Halloween digital what drinks to serve based on the and pipe cleaner spiders. Time your Halloween party. Plan a invitations on Punchbowl for the guests. Mix cocktails and punch will be limited on the day of sophisticated Halloween party perfect design to complement for adult themed Halloween the party due to food and drink for adults or organize a family your theme. Choose invitations parties. Serve lemonade, preparation and socializing so juice, and other non-alcoholic make sure you decorate a day or beverages for a kids party. Join our Clarion team and receive Label the drinks with creative two in advance. - New Starting wage - Sign on Bonus Halloween names. 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They should never be left unattended. • Plan costumes that are bright and reflective. on decorative lenses will often make claims Consider adding reflective tape or striping to such as “one size fits all,” or “no need to At Home: costumes and trick-or-treat bags for greater see an eye specialist,” obtaining decorative • Remove tripping hazards to keep your visibility. contact lenses without a prescription is both home safe for visiting trick-or-treaters. Keep dangerous and illegal. This can cause pain, the porch and front yard clear of anything a • Make sure that shoes fit well and that inflammation, and serious eye disorders and costumes are short enough to prevent tripping, child could trip over such as garden hoses, infections, which may lead to permanent toys, bikes, and lawn decorations. entanglement, or contact with flame. vision loss. • Check outdoor lights and replace burned- • Look for “flame resistant” on the costume Pumpkins: labels. Wigs and accessories should also out bulbs. clearly indicate this. • Never allow small children to carve • Sweep wet leaves from sidewalks and pumpkins. Children can draw a face with steps. • Consider non-toxic makeup and decorative markers. Then parents can do the cutting. hats as safer alternatives to masks. Hats should For the best control while carving, the • Restrain pets so they do not inadvertently fit properly to prevent them from sliding over American Society for Surgery of the Hand jump on or bite a trick-or-treater. eyes. Makeup should be tested ahead of time (AAHS) recommends adults use a small • Although most animals are friendly, some on a small patch of your child’s skin to ensure pumpkin saw (sold with other Halloween can be dangerous; take precautions to there are no unpleasant surprises or allergic goods) in small strokes, directing the blade prevent animal bites. reactions on the big day. Toxic ingredients away from themself and others. The AAHS • More than any other age group, children have been found in cosmetics marketed to advises against using larger blades, which teens and tweens. between the ages of 5 and 9 are the victims can become lodged in the pumpkin and cause of animal bites―about 5% of all children • Avoid any sharp or long swords, canes, or injuries when pulled out. this age are bitten by an animal every sticks as a costume accessory. Your child can • Consider using a flashlight or glow stick year. Children ages 9 to 14 are next in line easily be hurt by these accessories if he or instead of a candle to light your pumpkin. as the most frequent victims of animal she stumbles or trips. If you do use a candle, a votive candle is bites. 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Making one the jack-o-lantern’s longevity. instead. • Scoop out seeds and stringy flesh last throughout the season is a trick of Some of the best methods involve with a large spoon or ice cream the trade even some veteran carvers inhibiting mold growth and CARVING TIPS scooper. struggle with. dehydration of the pumpkin. One trick • Draw your design on the pumpkin • Carve the facial features closest to People young and old head to pumpkin is to submerge the cut pumpkin in a with a water-based marker beforehand. the center first and work outward. Cut patches to pick out the ideal pumpkins. bucket of water for a few minutes after Mistakes are erased easily with a out the larger features in sections. damp sponge. Some prefer perfectly round ones, carving to moisten the flesh. Others • Use an X-Acto knife for details and while others like tall, oblong ones. say that spreading petroleum jelly on • Cut the top and any large areas with the tip of a potato peeler to make small Whatever the decision, the majority the inside of the carved pumpkin will a sharp, straight-edged knife. A dull circles and curves. of these pumpkins will be brought help. Commercial chemical products blade is not a safer alternative. • Remove carved portions by gently home and turned into jack-o-lanterns, that reduce the decay of the pumpkin • Serrated metal saws, now widely pushing them into or out of the or pumpkins carved with a design. may be effective as well. One can also available in carving kits, are a safer pumpkin. The key to having a jack-o-lantern try using a bleach-and-water solution alternative to knives and allow • Reattach a section that is accidentally ready and prime for Halloween to keep mold from growing. younger children to get in on the removed by using a toothpick to pin it action. haunting is carving it at the right time. Those who will simply allow nature back in place.