Treats aplenty

Inspiration

I got the last of the treats!  My grand plan is to have a cauldron with a fog machine and a green light, but also has a shallower bowl set into the cauldron that kids can reach in and grab a treat.  And then all the treats are going to be potential witches brew ingredients.  So.  I have spider (rings), witch fingers, sticky lizards (many colors), and what arrived recently glow in the dark eyeballs (bouncy balls).  It's looking good, there just might have to be some policing about picking one item...not one of each, as some kids tend to think.  I'm also thinking of making an open page spell book page prop that would include all of these ingredients and have it displayed next to the cauldron.  I have to figure out how I'd want to do it though.  There shall be sketching.

Hocus Pocus graves

I started in on the first step in the graves for this year's cemetery.  I splurged a bit and got the pink styrofoam that just has such a nicer cut and I've been cutting out transfer paper and putting down some of the gravestone info.  I'll probably end up with around 6-7 gravestones--the three sisters, the Binxes, Billy Butcherson, and I thought maybe one of the Salem witches.  Or possibly someone I'm forgetting.  So far so good--just lots of tedious transferring.  But I'd like to try to do each phase all at once--burning all at once, painting all at once, etc.  Just makes cleanup easier.  And graves are pretty much in my wheelhouse, I know how to do them at this point.  I am going to try a different base this year though--two block of wood on either side of the graves with long screws drilled through.  Hopefully they'll be weighty enough to combat the wind.

**UPDATE**

Forgot to update on these.  So I carved them all out, painted the lettering in white, and then painted around them with a darker gray.  I'm thinking the white lettering will light up a lot better at night.  It's actually rained a few nights and I originally accidentally left them in the rain, but it ended up being a good test for them.  None of them fell down (this will change in the grass), so the 2x4 wood was a good way to go.  They're ready to go in the front yard.