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Spooktacular Craft Ideas for Your Halloween Monster Bash

Get glowing reviews on Halloween party decorations with fluorescent ink jet cartridges

(ARA) - If you want to add a personal touch to your Halloween party this year, try creating decorations instead of buying the same boring ones from department stores.

It's scary how creative your Halloween Boo Bash can be with creative crafts designed using DayGlo ink jet cartridges. New DayGlo ink jet cartridges have inks enhanced with patented DayGlo technology that brighten colors and create black-light effects for "boo"tiful Halloween creations.

Kids and adults alike will get rave reviews on their monster bash with easy and fun projects to express their frightening creativity. Here are just a few ideas to make your party a smash:

Interesting Invitations

Use eerie fluorescent colors, creepy clip art and frightening fonts for spooky Halloween effects to make your invitations stand out. Create your own envelope seals by printing glowing colored clip art onto sticker paper.

Perfect Placemats and Place Cards

Get the kids involved in pre-party creations by designing personalized placemats and place cards for each guest using DayGlo colors. Laminate each placemat to protect against spills.

Spooky Signs and Dangling Décor

Print colorful pictures of ghosts, goblins or scary words in bright fluorescent colors. Cut out each shocking image and hang on the walls or suspend from the ceiling using fish wire. Replace incandescent bulbs with black light bulbs. Then, turn out the lights and get ready to be frightened!

Frightening Food Labels

Turn plain party foods into ghoulish grub by placing small name cards made with DayGlo colors next to each dish. Simply add eerie adjectives, such as "creepy cupcakes" or "horrific hot wings" to your treats and hungry little monsters will be "goblin" up the goodies in no time!

Ghoulish Games

Entertain miniature goblins and ghosts with easy to make games such as "Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin." Print a vibrant-colored jack-o-lantern (minus a nose) for your target. Print and cut out silly nose shapes for blindfolded youngsters to pin on the pumpkin for loads of laughter!

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DayGlo ink jet cartridges are available at various office and computer superstores, and mass merchandisers. The cartridges can also be purchased on the DayGlo Web site at www.dayglostore.com. For more information on DayGlo ink jet cartridges, visit www.dayglo.com. Courtesy of ARA Content, www.ARAcontent.com

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