Pink Coconut Cake
What You Need: White cake mix, sweetened shredded coconut, vanilla icing, red or pink food coloring, plastic bag, plate, adult assistant What you do: 1. With your adult assistant, prepare the cake mix according to the directions on the box (or, conversely, make a white cake from scratch). Before you pour the batter into the pan, add a couple of drops of food coloring and mix well – your batter will be pink! 2. Bake your cake. When it’s ready, have your adult assistant remove it from the oven and let it cool. 3. When the cake is cool, turn it out onto a plate. 4. Mix a few drops of food coloring into the vanilla frosting. Frost the cake with it. 5. Put your shredded coconut into a plastic bag and add a couple of drops of food coloring. Close the bag and shake it well to distribute the color. Spread the coconut onto a plate and let it dry. 6. When the coconut is dry, pat it onto the sides of the cake and onto the top. 7. Enjoy sharing your sweet (and pink) cake!
Sweet Owl Cookies
Hoo loves cookies? I do, that’s hoo! What you need: - 3/4 cups butter, softened - 1 cups sugar - 2 eggs - ½ teaspoon vanilla - 2 ½ cups flour - 1 teaspoons baking powder - ½ teaspoon salt - Chocolate chips - Almonds - Bottle cap, cleaned - Small fork - An adult assistant to help you with this recipe What you do: 1. Preheat oven to 400°. 2. Mix butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. 3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. 4. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix to form a ball. 5. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least an hour. 6. On a floured surface, roll out dough to about ½” thickness. 7. Using a small glass or cup as a cookie as a cookie cutter, cut cookies out in circle shapes. 8. Set your circles on an ungreased baking sheet about 1” apart. 9. Using leftover dough, form two small balls for each cookie and press them into the top half of one of your larger circles. These are your owls’ eyes. 10. Press a chocolate chip into the centre of … Read more
Clay Owl Craft
This craft is so easy you’d be wise to make a few. What you need: - Sculpting clay - Marker cap What you do: 1. Roll out clay to about ¼” thickness and cut out a circle using a drinking glass as a cookie cutter. 2. Use the cap of a marker to lightly press overlapping semi-circles into the front of the circle to form the breast feathers of your owl. 3. Fold in the two sides of your circle to create the wings. 4. Fold down the top of your circle to form the head and squeeze the middle of the flap slightly to make a beak shape. 5. Mold the ears into points. 6. Make two eyes with the top of the marker. 7. If you’re using baking clay, have an adult assistant help you bake it according to instructions and then paint your creation. These little owls are a real hoot!
Molly and Millie Fly a Kite
Hey! It’s me, Molly. I just had the most fun day ever with my little sister, Millie. Today I took her to the park with her new kite. It was a really windy day so I knew it would be perfect. I told Millie to hang on to the spool of string and I ran and ran with the kite until the wind caught it. It flew so high! At first Millie was a bit scared she was going to let go of the spool but I ran back and helped her hold it. As she watched the kite dance and bob around she giggled and giggled! She thought it was so much fun. Suddenly, though, the wind changed and all of a sudden the kite started diving down. I tried to run in a different direction to catch the wind again, but it was too late – the kite plunged right into a tree. We ran over to the tree to get the kite, but it was totally stuck. Millie was so upset! I didn’t really know what to do. I tried tugging at it but it was really wedged … Read more
Crafty Critterz: Candy Table
Submitted by: Chr with Jules What you need: Black table cloth Glass jars Candy Chocolates Figure cut outs Black take out containers Sliver boxes Blue & black tissue Cookies What you do: 1. Place black table cloth over table. 2. Put all your favorite candy in glass jars and arrange on table. 3. Place black take out containers in the middle of table. 4. Line silver boxes with tissue paper and fill with cookies. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Milk Carton Bats
What you need: - Empty milk carton - Black paint - Large googly eyes - White paper - Black paper or card - Glue - Scissors - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Cut the top off of your milk carton and cut two points in the front to form ears. 2. Paint the outside of the carton black. 3. Cut out two wings from black paper and glue to the back of the carton. 4. Glue two large googly eyes to the front of the carton. 5. Cut out two triangles from white paper to form fangs and glue to the front of the carton. After you’ve gone trick or treating, why not hide your stash in this wacky bat?
Roberta’s Costume Dilemma
By Roberta Rabbit Okay, can you help me out? I am stuck. I have to figure out what to be for Halloween – it’s only ten days away! – and I still don’t have a clue. I had been thinking of being a mermaid, but I’m kind of worried that with Sera around in the Adventure Park, any other mermaid would pale in comparison. So I thought about being a pirate, but what if Laurabeard decides to go out as a pirate? I mean, her brother is Dogbeard. He can probably give her loads of cool stuff for a pirate costume. How could I compete with a real pirate? I saw this cute Turkey costume, but I’m not sure the Gravy Boat Hat really suits me. I found this wild Werewolf costume but will any of my friends even recognize me? Does that even matter? I AM pretty scary in this get up, aren’t I? Then I saw this cool witch costume. It’s wicked huh? But I’m … Read more
The ‘Kinz Carve Pumpkins
By Sparky Hi there! My Uncle Arte said I could invite some friends over to his friend’s farm today and we could carve pumpkins for Halloween! This is so cool because they have a really neat pumpkin patch so we could each choose our own. When everyone got here we were all searching around in the pumpkin patch for the biggest pumpkins. I think we found the best ones! Then we all planned out how we wanted to decorate our jack-o-lanterns. I wanted a super scary face – with giant fangs and really angry eyes. Molly said that she was going to do a cute one because she didn’t want to scare Millie when she brought it home. Cute? What is the point of that? Halloween is all about being scared! The scarier, the better if you ask me. Sally said she was going to do a funny one. She saved one of the pieces that she cut out for the eyes and put it in her pumpkin’s mouth so it looked like its tongue was sticking out! Isn’t that a cool idea (I kind of wish I had thought of … Read more
Leaf-Shaped Sandwiches
You can use pretty much any filling you like to make these autumn sandwiches. What you need: - Bread – a variety of whole wheat, white and rye bread makes for a more ‘colorful’ collection of leaves. - Your favorite sandwich fillings: cheese, ham, peanut butter & jam (if you’re not taking them to school), tuna, egg - Leaf shaped cookie cutters What you do: 1. Make your sandwich. 2. Cut out leaf shapes. 3. Eat.
Halloween Peek-A-Newz Reminder
There’s still time to win lots of great prizes! Play the Halloween Peek-A-Newz Challenge each day from October 1 until October 31 to get a prize each day! Log in to Peek-A-Newz from the Contests page and then look for the Pumpkin by clicking through pages on Webkinz Newz. The Pumpkin will be “peeking” out from behind ads — and could be anywhere on the page! Find the Pumpkin 5 times and a random Webkinz Newz exclusive Halloween prize will be added to your Webkinz World account. Each day runs from 12:00am EST to 11:59pm EST. Limit of one prize per Webkinz World account per day.
Spot Spooky and Win a Halloween Themed Prize!
Look for Spooky between Oct 20 and Oct 31 to win a Halloween prize! Read more
Pink Whipped Cream
This is a super-easy pink topping for your favorite desserts! What you need: 1 cup whipping cream, mixer, adult assistant, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, ¼ cup of icing sugar, red or pink food coloring What you do: Have your adult use the mixer to whip the cream. When it’s about halfway whipped, add the vanilla and gradually add the powdered sugar. Add a drop of red or pink food coloring when the cream is almost entirely whipped (if you only use one drop, the red will look pink). Serve with strawberries or use as a topping for your dessert!
Crafty Critterz: Paper Bag Googlies
Submitted by: ale with happy What you need: Brown paper bag Magazine photos of eyes, nose, lips Scissors Glue What you do: 1. Cut out pictures of eyes, noses and lips from your favorite magazine. 2. Clip the top of each bag to create fringe. 3. Glue the faces on each bag. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
