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Every year since I was young, my mom has served up chili and homemade breadsticks each Halloween night.  It’s a delicious stop for friends and neighbors along their trick or treat route.  About 10 years ago, she started serving piping hot homemade donuts on Halloween along with her other offerings.  There is standing room only these days in her home on the most haunted night of the year, and she goes through dozens and dozens of donuts.

I’ve continued her wonderful tradition in my own neighborhood.  My husband makes pots of his amazing chili and I made lots of homemade breadsticks, right out of the oven.  I love the IDEA of homemade donuts.  But they will have to wait for when my kids are older and don’t need help getting into spooky makeup and costumes.

I still serve donuts, just the store bought variety.  This donut tree would be just the perfect and charming way to serve my donuts.  Brittany, from one of my favorites sites- One Charming Party, shares a perfect step by step tutorial.  It looks so easy, I think my kids could help.

Thank you Brittany for letting my share your fun project here on Make it Do.

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My daughter is going to be raven this year for Halloween.  The base of the costume was a lovely long tutu from last year’s dance performance.

It was easy to add the other elements of the costume with such a good start.

I looked around the internet and found a template for a costume on Martha Stewart.

We used her download template to make the collar and the beak of the costume.

We cut the template out with the specified tabs at the neck.

This allowed us to hot glue a length of grosgrain ribbon at the collar so it could tie around the neck.

The next step was gluing on the rows of feathers.

Luckily this was a job that my daughter could do with a little help with the hot glue gun.

When all the feathers were glued, we glued a length of sequin to cover the ugly tops of the feathers.

Martha beak was made from paper, but we preferred foamies sprinkled with black glitter.  It was a nice improvement, both comfortable and looks great.

We added a fun black feather boa and a raven is taking shape.

We can hardly wait to for Halloween!