Halloween Candy Poppers

These party favors are sure to be a favorite at your Halloween party- or hand them out to Trick-or-Treaters!

What You Need:

* Crafts knife; ruler
* Empty cardboard tubes from paper towels
* 3 to 4 sheets of tissue paper in a Halloween color
* Transparent tape
* Decorative Halloween stickers
* 4 chenille stems in assorted Halloween colors (pipe cleaners work too!)
* Candy
* Paint pen in a Halloween color

How to Make Them:

1. Use a crafts knife to cut two 3-inch lengths from the paper-towel tube. With scissors, cut a 5-x-12-inch rectangle from a stack of three or four sheets of tissue paper.
2. Center the two tube lengths on one long edge of the layered tissue paper, leaving a 1/4-inch-wide space between the tubes. Secure each section to the edge of the tissue paper with a piece of transparent tape. Roll the tissue paper around the paper-towel tubes and secure with Halloween stickers.
3. Twist together two chenille stems. Gather the excess tissue paper at one tube end and secure with the twisted stems. Fill the tube with candy.
4. Close the remaining end in the same way. Coil the ends of the chenille stems.
5. Cut triangles into the tissue paper ends for a jagged look. Trim the popper with additional Halloween stickers. Use the paint pen to make triple-dot patterns around and between the stickers.

Webbed Chandelier

Recycle an old umbrella as a haunting light fixture. Remove the fabric covering;  stretch spider webbing over the ribs.
Decorate with plastic spiders and battery-operated lanterns attached to the ribs with bent wire or S hooks.
Tie rope around the handle, and hang from the ceiling with a plant hook or cup hook.

Black Widow Chair Covers

Planning a Halloween gathering? Try this inexpensive way to “slipcover” your chairs with netting. If you’re entertaining this Halloween, you’ll definitely want to create this spellbinding chair decoration for your party.

It takes only two inexpensive supplies and will be done faster than you can say “Boo!”

Supplies

* 4 yards black tulle 45 inches wide (for each chair)
* 3 yards orange satin ribbon (each chair)
* Scissors

Instructions
1. For each chair, cut the 4-yard length of black tulle in half to make two 2-yard lengths.
2. Drape the first two yards over the front and back of the chair so it will cascade to the floor.  Next, drape the other two yards from side to side over the back of the chair so it also reaches the floor.
3. Gather tulle around the seat base of the chair with orange silk ribbon and tie a simple bow at the back of the chair.
4. Trim the length of the tulle to rest evenly on the floor around the chair.