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Halloween is a big event on the Web. You can find animated bats, black and orange backgrounds, eerie sound clips, and electronic Halloween greeting cards at every turn. But I've tried to assemble for you here some useful materials for celebrating the holiday off the Web — especially fonts, clip art, and templates to create printable Halloweeen craft projects such as cards and invitations, party decorations, costumes, trick or treat bags, and even coloring pages for kids. This page and the templates pages contain design tips and ideas for Halloween party invitations.

• Halloween Craft Templates
  If you need to save time or just don't want to do custom designs, there are plenty of ready-to-print templates you can download. Some are for specific software programs but most are in PDF or on printable Web pages. Grab a ghoulish template for Halloween cards and other printable Halloween crafts. There are even templates to help you carve your Jack-o-Lantern.

• Kids Printable Halloween Crafts
  Halloween is for kids too. Help them print their own kid-friendly cards, coloring pages, trick or treat bags, and Halloween party games. Most of these these templates are in PDF format or on printable Web pages.

Invitation/Card Idea: Don't fret over finding the right clip art. Use pre-designed holiday papers. Want to make your party a bit more dignified than the usual Halloween bash? Use color paper in warm fall colors and pick a not too outrageous typeface. Put your time and effort into writing a nice invite and having a fun party. Or, try this Fall Harvest Stationary template from HP.

• Clip Art & Fonts
  Prefer to create your own designs? Write your message in dripping blood or Gothic fonts. Spook up your printed Halloween projects with ghosts, goblins, bats, or black cats. Browse this collection of Halloween Clip Art & Fonts and download the ones that make your skin crawl. Includes clip art in a font — crafty dingbat fonts that double as mini-collections of Halloween clip art.

Design Tip: Many of the Halloween fonts that are so fun to use are also difficult to read. Choose and use these decorative fonts carefully. Use them at large sizes for short headlines and easy to recognize words (Boo! Happy Halloween). Choose a nice, easy to read serif or sans serif font for body copy — and especially for important information like dates, times, and locations for your Halloween festivities.

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