Do-it-yourself Halloween: making costumes, food and fun - Courant.com

If the thought of making your children's costume is front lace wigs scarier than facing down an evil demon, relax. Do-it-yourself Halloween projects can be as involved or as simple as your skill, time and patience will allow.We've collected no-fuss party and costume ideas to unleash your wicked inner spirit. Look around your home and in your closets for ghoulish inspiration. That way, the build-up to Halloween can be just as spook-tacular as the holiday itself. Creepy treats: haunted pizza Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts Yield: 16 to 20 servings1 (16.5-ounce) roll refrigerated sugar-cookie dough4 (3.5-ounce) containers vanilla pudding2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs or 20 chocolate sandwich lace wigs cookies finely crushedAssorted whole vanilla wafers and graham crackersBlack decorator gel icingAssorted candies, such as jelly worms and candy corn1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 12-inch pizza pan. With lightly floured hands, pat the sugar-cookie dough into pizza pan.2. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.3. Spread vanilla pudding over baked cookie. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Cover and chill.4. Meanwhile, decorate wafers and graham crackers with decorator gel icing.5. Press wafers and graham feather hair extension crackers into pudding and arrange candy and jelly worms on top of cookie crumbs.Note: Adapted from: From Better Homes and Gardens posted on Recipe.comSpider popsThese creepy treats are so versatile. You could set out a plate of them on your Halloween table or you could place them all over your Halloween table to decorate it. Or you could hand them out to trick-or-treaters.To make each one you'll need: