Abracadabra Hats

I'm a huge fan of Halloween, so the second those cute little holiday recipe magazines hit the stands, I'm buying them up! I found this recipe a few years ago in one called "Halloween Food, Fun and Crafts". Again, this isn't the greatest picture, but I hope you get the idea.

Ingredients

I package (8 oz) crescent dinner rolls
1/2 tsp dried basil
16 pepperoni slices
2 cups pizza or marinara sauce

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Separate dough and place individual pieces on work surface. Gently shape each piece into long triangle. Sprinkle triangles evenly with basil.

Cut pepperoni slices into crescent shapes using a small cookie cutter or knife. Partially roll up bottom of the triangle to create the brim of the hat.

Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Meanwhile, warm pizza sauce in small saucepan over low heat. Serve hats with sauce for dipping.

Serves 8

Creepy Hands

I thought I'd start off the month with a fun Halloween idea. You'll have to excuse the terrible picture - I took this a couple of years ago and wasn't nearly as good with the camera as I am now ;)

This isn't a new idea, so it's likely that you've seen these before, but I think it's a lot of fun for kids. I made these for Andrew to take to his preschool class on his sharing day and it was a big hit.

All you need is some plastic skeleton hand bags - I always find mine at the dollar store, some candy corn and popcorn. I use a Whirly Pop to make my popcorn; it's easy, fast and makes a ton of popcorn all at once.

First, put the candy corn in each finger (I used 2 per finger) and then put the popcorn in. It's a little tedious, but I found it worked best if I filled the fingers with popcorn individually and then then hand. Tie off the bag with some ribbon or twist ties and you're all done!