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Dressing up your kid as Mickey Mouse with a Mickey Mouse ears hat is perhaps the most well-liked halloween outfit for children and older children. You might already have acquired the most charming Mickey Mouse costume and are now thinking about tactics on the right way to create the perfect Mickey Mouse ears hat. Below is a catalogue of some of the most simple steps in making a Mickey Mouse ears hat which will match your awfully attractive Mickey Mouse costume. In making your child's Mickey Mouse ears hat, you'll need an old hat, a black construction paper, felt fabric, a hot glue gun, and a stitching machine with a black thread. There are countless methods in making a Mickey Mouse ears hat.

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This technique is the nearest to the normal Mickey Mouse hat and it typically requires only a little work and effort. Step one is to take a bit of black felt fabric and place it on a flat working surface. Measure your child's head rim by utilizing a tape measure. This could give you an idea on how loose or fit your hat must be. The following step is to take the correct measurement of your child's head rim and use the half that measurement to draw a semi-circle on the felt fabric. As an example, if the rim measures twenty-two inches, then you have to draw a semi-circle which will measure eleven inches. Cut this shape out of the felt fabric and do it to another half. Then, take the 2 semi-circles which you have made from the felt fabric and put them together by using glue. Be certain that both the sides of the felt fabric are facing one another and secure them by stitching their outer edges. After stitching two inches of the fabric, leave a space to make for the ears. Do the same with the opposite side. After you've finished stitching, take the hat and flip it inside-out and check what you have done so far. The felt fabric must be facing upward and you should finish up with an ideal circle.

By this time, you can fit the Mickey Mouse ears hat to your youngster so you can size it and assure the hat would completely fit. Now the hat is finished, you can start making the ears. Take the construction paper and cut 2 circles with diameters equal to five.

In employing a construction paper, irrespective of what color you select, ensure that the material is made from strong elements and elements. Place these 2 circles on the leftover fabric. With the traced line of the paper, cut the felt to form a circle. Employ a glue gun and stick the paper on the felt fabric and let it dry. Take the 2 Mickey Mouse ears and attach them to the opening that you have left in the hat. Flip the hat inside out and use your stitching machine to stitch the leftover portion of the hat that's closed to the ears. Your Mickey Mouse ears hat is now complete.

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The custom of wearing Halloween costumes was started a very long time ago. It was believed by the people from that time that the barrier between the physical and spiritual realms would lapse that day, allowing many evil spirits to come back from the dead and cause mischief and mayhem.  So, they would dress themselves up in masks and make-up to confuse the spirits, and, hopefully, hide their identity. Supposedly, they were emulating the dead, and dressing themselves as ghosts, zombies, and demons.

Though those costumes are still well used today, people have made quite a list of classics. Vampires, witches, and mummies kept the scariness in Halloween costumes. But along with those, there are cowboys, pumpkins, cheerleaders, football players, and humorous mockeries of celebrities that have made the holiday a little lighter.

Lately, others have decided to make their costumes more original. This is probably due to being tired of seeing 10 pirates, 11 ghouls, and 18 superheroes in one night. They were motivated to really make people notice. Some have dressed up as certain food items, others as electronics, and some just come up with their own thing all together.

Following is a list of lesser worn, but some still decently recognized Halloween costumes,

* The Generation: To pull of this look, you select a decade, 80's, 60's, or any other time period, and dress as the norm for that generation. Be a hippie, wear a poodle skirt, or go find yourself some uncomfortable spandex, and learn air guitar. Either way, these can usually bring quite a few giggles.

* The Shocker: This is the one where you think of the most offensive and unexpected outfit you have ever heard of, and then you wear it. People who go for these costumes have been the same who have dressed as Nazis, Hitler, Jesus, KKK members, and tampons. You wear these at your own risk.

* The Personal Joke: This costume is where you imitate someone you know, or perhaps take something a friend or 2 know about and do your best to dress as it. It's most likely that no one else will know what you're supposed to be, but that's why it's personal.

* The Partner/Group Costume: You must have another person who can “complete” you for these Halloween costumes. Try to dress as something you could wear on your own if at all possible, like a jigsaw piece. Together with the others, you complete the puzzle, or the plug and an electrical outlet.

* The Chameleon: This one requires patience to make sense, not like that's a big deal on Halloween. You paint yourself to match the area exactly where you'd like to sit or stand for a while. It's a Halloween costume that needs very little effort to pull off, after the disguise is on. When you do start moving, you can just keep it on and be dressed as that area.

Almost always, the best outfit is the one you just know works. If you can't be different, be classic. Most of all just have fun with whichever of the Halloween costumes you decide to wear.

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It seems that each year there are more gross recipes for Halloween that emerge. You have probably already tried many of these for parties, or just for fun, if you have kids. Nothing seems to bring more giggles than gross names for food, unless it’s the way some of this food looks.

If you really want to cause shrieks of disgust and excitement this Halloween, try serving Boogers on a Stick. Even the name is enough to make you gag. While this may not be a well known treat, it is definitely gross to look at. It’s quite entertaining to watch the faces of your guests when they first lay eyes on this special food.

There are a few gross recipes for Halloween that can get complicated to make, but this is not one of them. To create Boogers on a Stick you will need pretzel sticks, an 8 ounce jar of Cheese Whiz (or any other brand), and about 3 or 4 drops of green food coloring. Heat the Cheese Whiz in your microwave just until it melts. Take it out and let it cool for a few minutes. Add green food coloring, stirring slowly until you have the perfect color of green “boogers.” Dip the pretzels into this lovely mixture one at a time until you have a nice green Booger on the end of the pretzel. Lay them on sheets of wax paper and let them cool completely. Serve them on a colorful plate.

This is one of many gross recipes for Halloween that really seems to catch on once people have seen the results. Actually, this particular recipe is used for other occasions besides Halloween. They can be used for birthday parties, sleepovers, or just about any other gathering that involves children.  Preparation of this edible treat can be used as part of the party fun. Kids love helping to create those boogers. Even the adults get in on the laughing and screaming while making these.

If part of your Halloween celebration includes parties, you will most likely see more gross recipes for Halloween. However, they will have to be REALLY gross in order to top Boogers on a Stick. This has all the required ingredients for bulk amounts. It costs very little to make them. Preparation only takes minutes. They are fun to put together. Best of all, they are so much fun to make that you will have all sorts of volunteers when you announce what you are making. These disgustingly named treats may just be the perfect party food.

I understand there are different viewpoint on this???

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.

The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.

By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.

Someone please tell me why the kids have to tell you the last minute that you have been volunteered to supply chips, dip, soda, etc for their Hallween party at 9pm the night before?!? Or worse yet homemade cookies? Am I the only one going thru this?

It is frustrating when kids don't tell us until the last minute (usually they know in advance but just forget until the night before). Don't stress out.....there are 24 hour markets and I would just pick up homestyle cookies in the morning. There is no need to rush around at 9 p.m. baking cookies. Just be sure to bring them in their package in case there are any food allergies (they main contain nuts).