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Add your costumes and Halloween projects to the MAKE DIY Halloween pool! The deadline is 11/4 to win prizes! - Original link.

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Jeff writes in -

Carl and Jerry were Halloween Makers in the grand tradition. This story, from November 1960, explains how they built a very creepily effective severed hand for a seance, magnetically enabled so it can tap out messages by remote control on a glass tabletop.

A Carl and Jerry Halloween Story - Original link (PDF).

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This is it gang, it’s Halloween - We have a MASSIVE DIY HALLOWEEN contest this year! Makers and Crafters, enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. MAKE, CRAFT, Instructables and Popular Science have teamed up and there’s plenty of time to win! Here’s how to enter and here are all the great prizes!!!. If you’re in a hurry just add your photos to the MAKE DIY Halloween photo pool!

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As you may have known, Etsy has also been putting on a Halloween costume contest and they too have had many brilliant entries. But, as with any competition there can only be one (or a few in this case) winner.

Etsy costume contest winners - Original link.

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Here’s a commercial product (from FrightProps) that uses a blast of compressed air on a person’s ankle to separated them from their skin. If you have an air compressor, you could probably bodge up your own without too much trouble.

Ankle Blaster Air Cannon - [via] Original link

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It amazes us how creative some people get for Halloween. From truly tasteless to super creative. Even the props are getting more creative:

You can find out more about this costume idea as well as a bunch of others over at Cockeyed.com.

2007 Cockeyed.com Halloween Costume Contest - Original link.

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We’ve had TONS of response to our call for Halloween tips and tricks in our Flickr pool. From Tuscan Raiders:

To Duffman:

To creative pumpkin carving:

Plus there are pet costumes, props and accessories and whole bunch more. Better still, even though today is Halloween, people are still contributing!

DIY Halloween Flickr pool - Original link.

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Check out this ridiculously cool samurai costume made almost entirely out of Rubbermaid garbage cans.

Halloween Samurai 2007 - [via] Original link

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Looking for that last minute Halloween prop to make your entrance complete? How about this head in a jar?

All you need is a large jar, and a dead body. If the body isn’t available you might try a printer and Google.

Head in a jar - Original link.

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Since the “Kiss” group costume has been done to death we thought we’d share this original group costume idea:

It’s actually a a traveling exhibition of modern art.

Group costume idea - Original link.

PLAN A DIY HALLOWEEN from MAKE & CRAFT FOR 2008!

Get a start on Hallween 2008 with our DIY HALLOWEEN 2007 edition from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT brings you 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that’s made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects - Original link.

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