Country Living's Handmade Halloween: Ideas for a Happy, Haunted Celebration
Six-year-old Rosalind Faires gives the low-down on a new book filled with Halloween project ideas.
By Rosalind Faires, Fri., Oct. 29, 1999
Text by Zazel Loven
Photography by Keith Scott Morton; illustrated by Amy Leonard
Hearst Books, 112pgs., $19.95
Handmade Halloween is a project book. There are things in the book you can make yourself for Halloween. I think the people that would like this book are people that are big fans of Halloween. Like me. Another thing you need to be to enjoy this book is a hard-working person who takes their time.
It tells you in the book how you can make a kind of invitation to a Halloween party. I made the card that says on the front "Boo." I knew how to make the card by looking at the photograph. It was easy and fun at the same time and I liked what I did. It looked exactly like the photograph did in the book.
I especially like the front-door scarecrow. It looks beautiful and inviting. It looks like a big project. I think it would take at least a family to make this scarecrow. I like it because the scarecrow has a smile on its face and so do the brooms that he is holding. The brooms both have faces, and the scarecrow is holding the brooms!
Chapter Two is mostly about jack-o-lanterns. It is about many different ways to make jack-o-lanterns. The different thing about some of the jack-o-lanterns is some of them didn't have faces; some of them had lightning flashes or stars carved on the pumpkin. Also, I had never seen people use the top of the pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern face. And they were the funniest jack-o-lanterns of all! For the noses they used the stems!
There are some tasty-looking cookie recipes at the back of the book. There are also other Halloween recipes that people might like to try if they like Halloween food.
The book also has photos of Halloween costumes that you make at your own house. My favorite is the fairy costume. If I was a big fan of fairies, I would be this kind of fairy for Halloween.
I'm probably going to try some of the other projects in the book this year and other years to come. I really like this book and if you like Halloween things and you like to do projects, you will like this book, too, I am sure.
