What to give for Halloween?

The traditional English holiday Halloween, or All Saints Day, is loved by residents of many countries. Young people and children joke, have fun from the heart and give each other funny presents. What to present on Halloween to friends and family, what gifts to make with your own hands for children and adults, read this article.

An obligatory tradition is to give sweet gifts to friends on Halloween. Delicious presents should be scary on the outside and sweet on the inside. You can order from confectioners or buy in specialized stores the following sweet products:

• cookies with a decoration in the form of brains;

• in the form of scary faces and pumpkins;

• with ghosts and bats;

• skull cupcakes;

• cakes - graveyard mounds with a tombstone;

• caterpillars, spiders and other arthropods from jujube;

• chocolate candies in the form of skulls.

You can make a festive treat yourself. An excellent gift would be a bouquet of sweets or a pumpkin decorated with chupa-chups. You can bake traditional English cookies with your own hands. The recipe for the most popular dish of Halloween lovers - Witch's Fingers cookies will help you.

For cooking you will need:

• flour - 350 g;

• sugar - 200 g;

• butter or margarine - 230 g;

• baking powder - 1 tsp;

• salt ½ tsp;

• a bag of vanilla sugar;

• almond;

• cherry, strawberry or cranberry jam - 250 g;

• cocoa and cinnamon optional.

Cooking.

1. Whisk together sugar, flour and egg.

2. Add flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla sugar to the mass.

3. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and quickly to keep the butter from melting.

4. Cover the dish with the dough with cling film and refrigerate for 40 minutes.

5. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and line the baking sheet with baking paper.

6. Remove the dough from the refrigerator.

7. Roll the sausage about the size of your middle finger.

8. To reshape the toe, squeeze the sides lightly, forming a slight bulge around the joint.

9. Make the base of your finger thicker and the tip thinner.

10. With the help of almonds, we make a nail at the end of the finger, gently pressing the nut into the dough.

11. Use a knife to make small notches on the workpiece, simulating finger folds.

12. Form the remaining fingers and place on a baking sheet 2 cm apart.

13. Bake cookies 20 minutes until golden brown.

14. Let the items cool down and start decorating.

15. Sprinkle cocoa on your fingers to make them look unkempt.

16. Dip the base of the cookie into the jam.

17. Leave the same sweet "bloody" marks on the joint and in the nail hole.

18. A delicious gift for Halloween lovers is ready.

Halloween is a comic holiday where it is customary to fool around and play pranks on friends, so gifts and souvenirs should match its spirit.

It is usually customary to give:

• T-shirts with skeletons, witches and other evil spirits;

• eerie holiday accessories - belts, headbands and headbands, gloves, handbags, nail stickers;

• makeup and cosmetics to create afterlife images;

• attributes of black magic - plastic frog legs, rubber lizards, magic balls, brooms and hats of witches;

• creepy masks - images of vampires, maniacs, ghosts;

• jewelry in the form of skulls and bones;

• key rings and fridge magnets with holiday symbols;

• mugs and cups with a thematic pattern;

• candles, lanterns and candlesticks in the shape of pumpkins and skulls;

• phone cases with creepy drawings.

On the eve of the holiday, be sure to visit the joke store. Shocking boots with full toes, from which dirty toes, false brains and scars, rubber skulls with eyes protruding from their sockets, will delight thrill-seekers.

You can make an unusual Halloween present with your own hands if the banal souvenirs from the store seem boring to you. A list of interesting and easy ideas will help you make the right choice:

• witch dolls made of yarn or fabric will appeal to your girlfriends;

• present a funny rag sorcerer or vampire to a friend or boyfriend;

• a pillow-dummy with themed embroidery is useful for any girl;

• a furry black cat, soft and fluffy, will charm the girl;

• lanterns carved from pumpkin will be appreciated by your friends;

• small tangerines, painted like pumpkins, give to your brother, dad;

• cookies or nuts with comic "terrible" predictions will cheer you up in the company;

• a knitted cover for a mug in the shape of a pumpkin will be very useful for a friend;

• a photo frame decorated with figures of mummies, black cats or witches, where you can insert a photo from the holiday, will come in handy for your sister, brother;

• candlesticks made of glass jars, painted with stained glass paints, will delight all fans of the holiday.

A good gift option is to make a festive room decor from scrap materials for the party with your own hands. Creating a special atmosphere and mood for Halloween is a pleasant surprise for all its participants.

You will need a small pumpkin, table and stationery knives, a tablespoon, fork, scotch tape, alcohol, cotton pads, a candle, a pumpkin pattern, a little patience and time.

Progress.

1. Wash and dry the pumpkin with a towel.

2. Moisten a cotton pad with alcohol and wipe the vegetable thoroughly with it to degrease.

3. Use a knife to cut off the top of the pumpkin (cap). Remove all contents with a spoon and knife.

4. Glue the template to the pumpkin with duct tape, and carefully pierce the pattern along the contour with a fork.

5. Make cuts in the product with a knife according to the pattern outlined with a fork.

6. Let the flashlight dry for 10-12 hours, insert a candle inside, and cover it with a lid.

7. The Halloween gift is ready.

Children are great lovers of the holiday, they take part in any merry sabbath with pleasure, and also make gifts to friends and parents with their own hands. Guys can make the following gifts on their own or with the help of adults:

• black cats and plasticine spiders;

• greeting cards for mom, dad and sister;

• paper garlands in the form of bats, pumpkins;

• cobweb window stencils;

• wreaths from the decor to decorate the door.

Little participants of the holiday can draw a colorful picture as a gift or make cute pumpkins out of paper. To make a gift you will need:

• orange and green paper;

• scissors;

• glue;

• jute rope.

Progress.

Use orange paper to make 4 strips 4 cm wide:

• 2 strips 22 cm long;

• 2 strips 18 cm long;

• 1 strip - 14 cm.

Fold each strip into an accordion. Glue the accordions together, from large to small.

Glue a rope tail and a couple of green paper leaves to the top of the pumpkin. The gift pumpkin is ready.

Older children will make a wonderful soft pumpkin with their own hands as a gift. You can play it, use it as a keychain, or give it to your mom as a needle case.

Prepare:

• synthetic winterizer;

• brown or orange felt, thin felt or fleece;

• scissors;

• needle and thread;

• a cinnamon stick for the ponytail.

Stages of work.

1. Cut out a piece of fabric measuring 21 cm by 39 cm.

2. Cut the fabric in half.

3. Sew along the narrow edge.

4. We tighten the upper edge of the workpiece with a thread and a needle.

5. We fill the product with padding polyester and sew it up, leaving a hole for the stalk on top.

6. Using a harsh thread or jute rope, we pull our pumpkin.

7. Cut a leaf out of felt and cut a hole in it to pass a cinnamon stick into it.

8. Put a drop of glue into the hole and insert the pumpkin-leg cinnamon.

9. We decorate the pumpkin with a leaf.

10. The work is ready.

It is very easy to arrange packaging in the form of a witch's broom for small souvenirs and sweets with your own hands.

You will need:

• paper bag - you can get it at a candy and tea store;

• black or brown cocktail tube;

• glue;

• decor - stickers or beads in the form of pumpkins or bats, bright orange ribbon.

Progress.

• Cut the bag into thin strips, but not completely.

• String or glue beads in the form of pumpkins on the tube, or attach another decor.

• Put a present on the bottom of the bag, stick bats on it.

• Insert a tube into the middle, and tie the bag tightly in the middle with a ribbon.

• Gift wrapping is ready.

An interesting idea is to hide small souvenirs in a balloon.

You will need:

• bright orange balloon;

• threads;

• green crepe or crepe paper;

• black marker.

Stages of creation.

• Put prepared presents in an empty balloon. They should pass freely through the neck of the ball.

• Inflate the balloon and tie with threads.

• Cut a green fringe from a small piece of paper.

• We tie it with threads to the top of the ball.

• Draw a traditional Halloween grimace on the ball with a marker.

• Gift wrapped in an original way.

Watch the video below to learn how to properly wrap your Halloween gifts.