If you are anything like my wife and I you must love Halloween and all the fun this first holiday of the holiday season brings. With the economy the way it is we've been hit pretty hard and it has left us to be more resourceful in ways we'd never thought about before. Holidays don't need to break the bank, you can do all the stuff you want to do without spending a dime. Here I'll give tips on some of the things we've done to make our Halloween fun for the whole family and without spending over twenty dollars.

Ok here is a real cheap way to make a cool glowing decoration for your Halloween

You will need these items:

• Get some one gal milk containers
• Small white trash bags
• Black permanent markers
• Scissors
  
• Glow sticks or Christmas lights

Using your scissors cut out the back bottom back of the milk carton under the handle just enough for an opening to be there. Draw a face on the front side with your marker. Place the lights inside and cover the carton with a plastic bag with the corner sticking up at the top.

You will need these items:

• Round river rocks (dollar store item for a bag)
• Glue-gun and glue sticks
• Pipe cleaning wires (craft store)
• Googly eyes (craft store)
• Black paint and other cheap paints

Using you black paint, paint the body of the rock black. Using your glue gun place and glue the pipe cleaners under the body of the rock. Glue your eyes onto the rock. You can then paint designs on the rock or place glue bumps around the back of the rock.

 INGREDIENTS

1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups white sugar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS

Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch bundt pan. Cream oil, beaten eggs, pumpkin and vanilla together. Sift the flour, sugar, baking soda, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and salt together. Add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix until just combined. If desired, stir in some chopped nuts. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Take orange frosting and cover the outside.

Cake Top:
Frost an icecream cone the night before and stick it in the freezer. When the cake is cool and frosted place the cone on the top.

Well there are some suggestions. Leave comments on the stuff you like to make for Halloween. Remember it's about fun and getting your place decorated is half the fun for us. Thanks and Happy Halloween!

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