Some Enchanted Evening: Halloween Crafts for the Home

Dress up a window for the witching hour with a colorful striped awning and a few wickedly wonderful pumpkins.

Here's how: Cut enough sheets of colored art paper into strips to fit the width of your window (ours are 7 1/2 inches wide). Create a scalloped edge on the bottom of each strip by tracing around a plate. Lay out the strips in your desired color sequence, making the two outer strips longer than the rest, and tape them together along the seams. Length depends on size of window. Fold the top edge under about an inch, and tape that edge under the window molding.