Monthly Archives: October 2011

Gimbals Jelly Beans – Halloween Candy

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Have a Magical Jack and the Beanstalk Halloween with Gimbals Jelly Beans

Take your guests right into the world of fairy tales this Halloween by recreating well-loved tales right in your own home. With Gimbals jelly beans and various decorations that keep with the theme, you can easily breathe life into one of the world’s favorite childhood classics: Jack and the Beanstalk.

Recreating Jack’s world isn’t very difficult. With a little imagination, along with some basic arts and crafts skills, you can create a fantasy world that even the giant would envy!

Use unused lamp stands or columns as your beanstalks and decorate them with green art paper for the leaves and crepe paper to make the stalk. You can even dress up as the giant and greet each visitor with a hearty bellow of “fee-fi-fo-fum!”

To complete the experience for every child, create a bag of magical beans using different flavored Gimbals jelly beans. With all these done, you can be sure that your costumed guests will have a Halloween to remember in a world of whimsy and storybookfantasy!

Wax Lips – Wax Fangs

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Play a Fun Game of “Vampire or Not” with Wax Lips and Fangs

Nothing beats a Halloween party that comes complete with games to play! If you’re hosting one this year, keeping your little guests entertained should be top priority. With wax lips and fangs, you can set up a game of Vampire or Not? that’s sure to be a hit for the night.

Vampire or Not? is a simple, yet fun-filled game where a “vampire hunter” is chosen to guess which kids are vampires, and which kids are not. Children find out what role they play with a draw of cards. Afterwards, each child in the game, except for the vampire hunter, is given either wax fangs or lips.

When the hunter goes around the kids to make his guess, all the kids will need to hide their identities by keeping their wax lips or fangs in their mouths.

If a hunter successfully finds the vampires, you can reward him with extra candy. You can even up the ante and make it more fun for all the kids with special prizes for hunters who have the most correct guesses or sneaky vampires who couldn’t be caught!

There are a lot of creative ways to keep your guests entertained the whole night. By knowing which games and candy they’ll love, you definitely throw an awesome Halloween party without too much trouble.

Wax Fangs – Halloween Candy

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Turn Your Doorstep into the Ultimate Vampire’s Lair with Wax Fangs and Other Halloween Gimmicks

Go all out with your decorations and gimmicks and make your home stand out this Halloween! Creating the perfect hangout for any creature of the night becomes easy with wax fangs, little cups of fruit punch “blood”, and decorative details to complete a vampire’s lair.

Creating the traditional Transylvanian effect on your front porch can be done with a few toy bats to linger before your door, cotton cobwebs to accent the door frame, and electric candles on elegant candelabras by the windows. Dim the lights in the room before the front door to give your home a chilling aura that makes everything fall into place.

Finally, a vampire’s lair is never complete without its resident lord or lady, so throw on an elegant black outfit, make your skin pale and ashen with powder, and wear fake fangs. As soon as your doorbell rings, greet your trick-or-treaters with a haughty vampire laugh and present them with a tray full of wax fangs and bloody fruit punch.

With a complete gimmick this Halloween, you will surely impress both your little costumed visitors and your neighbors!

Getting a Bite of Autumn with Mini Snickers Bars

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Creamy caramel, roasted peanuts and melt-in-your-mouth chocolate make for a combination that’s simply delightful for autumn! When it comes to capturing that right blend of savory-sweet flavor, nothing beats Snickers. Mini Snickers bars are the way to go if you really love the snack bar’s flavor but want just enough to satisfy your taste buds.

So why are Snickers so great for fall? Simple: the season is meant for enjoying the harvest. Fall also usually calls for heavier desserts, inspiring all sorts of pies and lavish pastries. But if you don’t have the time to spare for all the kitchen work, snack bars like Snickers hit the spot perfectly with that sumptuous blend of salty and sweet. There’s simply no other candy bar that does the same!

With Halloween and Thanksgiving fast approaching, mini Snickers bars also make great sweets for everyone to enjoy: from the neighborhood trick-or-treaters, to family and friends who stop by to celebrate the holidays with you. You can never go wrong with an autumn classic!

How to Decorate for Halloween

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Halloween is just around the corner and that means it’s time to start decorating for the scariest day of the year! Even if you are on a tight budget, that doesn’t mean you can’t make some pretty scary Halloween decorations!

Everybody is familiar with classic jack-o-lantern; we’ve all been carving pumpkins since we were little kids. This year why not add a little something extra to set your pumpkin apart from all of your neighbors. Check out these innovative pumpkin designs.

Ever thought of turning the pumpkin sideways and using the stem as the nose? How about making fanged pumpkins by using wax vampire fangs? And finally, my favorite; check out this super cool pumpkin scarecrow!

Want your house to be the scariest on the block? All you need is a couple basic materials and an imagination, and you’ll hear kids screaming with delight all night! Firs thing you will need: black lights. These light bulbs are inexpensive and will add an eerie affect to your entire yard, not to mention they look really cool.

Now that you have your black light it’s time to make your dummy. All you need for this is some of your old clothes and either pillows, blankets, or towels. Simply stuff the pillows and blankets into your old clothes and arrange them to look like a person. Put this dummy on your porch and watch as unsuspecting kids walk to your door and are tricked by your clever dummy!


Finally head to your local Halloween store and pick up a CD filled with scary songs to add background noise that is sure to unsettle surprised trick-o-treaters. All this can be homemade or store bought for relatively inexpensive, so there is no reason not to be prepared for this upcoming Halloween season. Just make sure you have a reward for all those little trick-o-treaters that you just scared! Here are just a couple of candy and chocolate mixes that are sure to please. M&M’s anyone? Or do you prefer Hershey’s or Nestle? Chocolate not you thing? Don’t worry, Candy Direct has a Fun Mix that is sure to please!

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Halloween Mix – Party Favors

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With kids (and even adults!) coming up with creative ways to dress up this Halloween, why not reward them with a special Halloween mix pumpkin bouquet to bring home?

Overflowing with all sorts of candy favorites, this basket makes a super-sweet trophy for the scariest ghoul, the wickedest witch and the most hideous monster at any party. To create a bouquet perfect as a Halloween trophy, fill the basket up with all sorts of spoils that are sure to appeal to every child and child at heart. Aside from classics like candy corn, Reese’s chocolate, and M&M’s, you can also consider other spooky delights to tantalize the taste buds like sour brite crawlers and black licorice strings.

Don’t just have one bouquet ready, though. If you’re planning to throw a Halloween shindig, it’s a must to have lots of awards to make sure that everyone has a great time. It’s not too hard to get the perfect Halloween mix bouquet when you know the right place to find it!