Top 5 Pinterest Pins for August 2019

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August 30, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

Save and enjoy the top pins on Pinterest for the month of August 2019. Make sure you are following Frugal Coupon Living on Pinterest!

Top 5 Pinterest Pins for August 2019

August is such an awkward month when it comes to Pinterest. Summer is over. People who use Pinterest are not actively online as they prepare for back to school. Additionally, it’s fall in the months before the holiday season hits, so searches for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are quiet.

Below are some of our top trending pins on Pinterest. If you look back at our August 2018 top trending Pinterest Pins, you would find the same pins in the top today (only I didn’t include them below to not be redundant!)

I encourage you to pin the pins below for later to your favorite Pinterest boards and make sure you are following Frugal Coupon Living on Pinterest!

Previous Top 5 Pins

Sheet Pan Suppers. Only a month old, this is a brand new post and it is going crazy. Save these easy to make recipes for your school nights. Simple, healthy, yummy. Pin this idea to Pinterest.

Camping Hacks, Tips and Tricks. Go on those last minute camping adventures before the weather gets too cold. Pin this idea to Pinterest. (Don’t forget our Camping Recipes too!)

Wine and Cheese Party Ideas. We just released this post. It is great going to the fall season as you start hosting gatherings with family and friends. Pin this idea to Pinterest. (Don’t forget our Hosting Tips for the Holiday Season too!)

Dorm Room Recipes. These recipes require no oven or stove top. Make with a microwave or they are no bake. Share with your child headed off to school. Pin this idea to Pinterest.

Kids Party Games. Kids Party Games were trending at the end of the year possibly with end of the year parties. You guys must still be partying this summer getting ready for the Back to School Season. Pin this idea to Pinterest.

WHAT’S TRENDING? Looking for a few engaging activities? Grab Minute to Win it Games – Traditional, Holiday, Group, and more! Use these fun activities in the office, classroom, or at your next birthday party.

Halloween Dollar Tree Craft | How to Make a Sugar Skull

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June 29, 2020 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Facebook, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

Celebrating the Day of the Dead or Halloween? We have a frugal-friendly Dollar Tree Craft. Learn the steps of How to Make a Sugar Skull with affordable supplies.

How to Make a Sugar Skull

We incorporated the traditional Latin-American Day of the Day into some of our Homemade Halloween Decor. This Halloween craft uses the basic of supplies and you might get away with creating this craft for only $1 if you have some of these supplies on hand!

What is Day of the Day?

The Day of the Dead “Día de los Muertos” is a three day festival commemorating friends and family who have passed away. It is often a misunderstood holiday as some attribute it to the American holiday called Halloween. This Latin American Holiday began with the Aztec Harvest at the end of summer. This multi-day festival is a time to honor loved ones who had gone before and not to recognize ghosts, goblins, witches or other scary mythological creatures.

The day of the dead celebration takes place October 31 to November 2. Children who have died are represented by skulls and are celebrated on November 1. Larger sugar skulls represent adults, whose celebration takes place on November 2. These dates coincide with the Western Christian holiday All Saints Eve and All Souls’ Day. The Mexican holiday also overlaps with the better known holiday, Halloween on October 31.

What is a Sugar Skull?

A calavera (English translation for skull is a representation of a human head. The term is most often used for edible or decorative skulls made from either sugar or clay. In celebrate of Día de los Muertos, calaveras were crafted. Sugar skulls represent a departed soul, often with the souls name written on the forehead. This too can be replaced with hearts, perhaps a number of hearts to represent the number of souls being honored. Sugar skulls are often adorned with colorful folk artwork. These adornments include hearts, flowers, paisley patterns, and dots.

Halloween Dollar Tree Craft Supplies

For this Halloween craft, we used a plastic skull from The Dollar Tree. It was only $1 (wink!) I also used chalkboard paint I had on hand and chalkboard markers. Hairspray will help keep the chalkboard markers in place once your craft is complete.

Sugar Skull Craft Supplies:

1 Plastic Skull (I got mine from the Dollar Store)
Black Chalkboard Paint
Chalkboard Fluorescent Markers
Optional: Aerosol Hairspray

Sugar Skull Craft Tools:

Paintbrush
Wax Paper (to protect your table)

Sugar Skull Craft Tips

You can purchase Dollar Tree Skeletons and skulls online. Another option is to check out Michael Crafts Skulls and Halloween Decor.

Another craft option is to use chalkboard makers but to go over that with glow in the dark puffy paint. That will really pop with a black light and a makes fun glow in the dark party decor.

When picking up your Dollar Tree supplies, don’t forget our other Halloween Dollar Store Craft- How to Make a Halloween Wreath Under $10.

How to Make a Sugar Skull

Learning how to make a sugar skull is not that much of a challenge. I used the internet to get inspired including Pinterest and Etsy. Etsy has some cute sugar skull patterns. When creating your pattern, think hearts, circles (dots), flowers and paisley patterns. Always start with your larger patterns.

To get started:

First, paint the plastic skull with the black chalkboard paint. Use the wax paper underneath the skull to protect your table.

Allow paint to dry fully. I would suggest at least a day.

Once dry, begin drawing your designs on the skull with the chalkboard marker of your choice.

To make a faux sugar skull like mine, begin with the eyes. I drew flowers in the sockets.

Next, I moved to the forehead where I drew a flower using hearts.

I outlined the nose with an upside down heart shape. I added birds kissing on the chin.

Finish with larger designs before adding your details. Added details include swirls and dots.

Allow chalkboard marker to dry completely before touching it.

Lastly, if desired, seal the chalkboard marker in place by spraying evenly with hairspray about 6-inches from the skull surface.

Optional: Another idea is to use chalkboard makers but to go over that with glow in the dark puffy paint. That will really pop with a black light.

Our Pinterest community and I would love to see how this worked out for you. Share your final Sugar Skull Halloween Craft. Leave a comment and/or add a photo here on Pinterest!

Decorating for Halloween? Check out these Spellbinding Halloween Lighting Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

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Spellbinding Halloween Lighting Ideas

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October 28, 2020 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, Facebook, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

Spellbinding Halloween lighting ideas and decorations to bring your haunted house to life! Hues of orange, green and purple Halloween lights to welcome your trick-or-treaters on a crisp October night.

Halloween Lighting Ideas

You know what can change the entire feel of your Halloween decor? The lighting. Adding pink, orange, purple or green adds a pretty ambiance to make a spooky, eerie Halloween vignette. The following Halloween hues will create the perfect haunted (or friendly) Halloween home.

Outdoor Halloween Lights

The first thing people see when it comes to your home is the outside. In order to set the ambiance, the Halloween feel people get when they arrive, you must have the most perfect welcome. These Outdoor Halloween Lights Ideas will perfect your yard, patio and even backyard venue.

Do you have a pond or even a pool that will be visual to trick-or-treaters or part of a Halloween soiree? Put LED tealights inside plastic jack-o-lantern buckets and let ’em float. | Source

Transition from Halloween outdoor lighting to Christmas cheer. We recommend going ahead and wrapping your trees. Add a spooky web to create Halloween yard decor. Turn off a few weeks until it is socially acceptable to start turning on Christmas lights! | Source

So many lighting possibilities in this yard. It is truly a place you will want to explore this Halloween. Touches of falling cheese cloth, tombstones and of course lights – 11 different Halloween lighting ideas, to be exact. | Entertaining Diva

Cardboard turned into a spooky vignette is an incredibly easy Outdoor Halloween Lights Display. On November 1, fold it up and toss it into the trash. |
Source (Directions on Inscrutables)

Get inspired with this Outdoor Halloween lighting and decorate with hues of orange, purple and green. | Christmas Lights Etc

Just as these chilling creatures of the night have flocked to these Pre-lit Eerie Bat Trees, so will compliments from guests. Pick them up at Grandin Road.

Indoor Halloween Lights

Your family and guests of of your home spend a lot of time in common living spaces. Decorate lamps, mantles, kitchen islands and even your stairs to create the perfect glow. Indoor Halloween Lights create a hue to provide both eerie and warm tones to your home.

Even non working fire places can stand out. Use a combination of tealights and column candles to bring light to your fireplace. Four inch mirror tiles, hot glued them to the inside of the fire box bring a beautiful reflection. | In memory of Sweet Something Design

Cheese clothes and candles sticks = Indoor Halloween Lights. We recommend flameless candle sticks. | Heart Spun Imagery

Wrap orange lights around the stair rail and add vinyl bats to the wall – easy peasy. | Source

Indoor Halloween Lights can be perfect with a sheer spiderweb fabric. Ttransform a standard lamp from something average to something spooky. | Somewhat Simple

Halloween Lighting Crafts

Get crafty mama. These Halloween lighting crafts are perfect for the beginner to the more experienced crafter. Add a glow to a hallway with hanging candles, turn a night light into Frankenstein or create ghosts out of tomato cages (you read that right!)

Harry Potter or Halloween – whichever. Decorate the hall with floating candles! | The Sway

Bring the memory of the dead to life with these black and white photograph Luminaries. You can decorate the steps or your home with these ideas. Flameless candles are best! | The House that Lars Built

Decorate your front walk or drive away. Simply drop Tap Lights, thick glow sticks, or other flameless lights into cheap plastic pumpkins, and BOOM – you’ve got the cutest glowing pumpkin lanterns on the block! | Making Lemonade Blog (She tells you where she bought hers.)

Turn your stairs into a fun runway with this cheap Halloween lighting crafts decor. Use milk or water gallons, draw Jack O’ Lantern faces, puncture a hole in the back and insert Christmas lights. | Source

Baby food jars can turn into night light covers! Frankenstein, ghosts, and more. | While He Was Napping

Turn a tomato cage and lightsinto a welcome ghost. | My Cotton Creations

These are made by cutting eyes out of paper towel rolls. Add glow sticks and cover ends with duct tape. Place in the yard, in bushes, or hang around the house. | Rust and Sunshine

This witch cauldron is an easy Halloween lighting craft. Painted a flower pot black, add green LED lights and use pillow stuffing. Three logs and some orange LED lights create the perfect fire glow. | Source is Crystal Scott on Pinterest

Turn latex gloves into spooky skeleton hands with this easy Halloween craft. | Taryn Williford

They eyes are watching you. Decorate your space with a string of lights and ping pong balls decorated like eyes. | Landeelu

Get festive with these creative Trunk or Treat Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

Get inspired with these Fall-O-Ween Farmhouse Halloween Decor Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

Copycat Chick-fil-A Cole Slaw

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September 29, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media

Bring home your very own restaurant recipe with this original copycat Chick-fil-A cole slaw. It might be retired from their menu, but this original recipe can still be shared at home with those your love!

Copycat Chick-fil-A Cole Slaw

Did you know that Chick-fil-A had the death of an item on their menu in January of 2016? Much to the displeasure of thousands, cole slaw was taken off the menu. However, if you are a huge fan of this recipe, Chick-fil-A did not disappoint (does it ever?!?) They released their famous recipe so you can bring this copycat tasty treat home or to your next picnic.

Also check out our Copycat Chick-fil-A Lemonade Recipe.

Copycat Chick-fil-A Cole Slaw

Makes six to eight servings.

Copycat Cole Slaw Ingredients:

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Copycat Chick-fil-A Cole Slaw

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Yield: 6-8 1x

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4 teaspoons vinegar
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon dry mustard
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup mayonnaise
2 10 oz bags finely shredded cabbage and carrots

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First, whisk together your mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, mustard and salt.

Add cabbage and carrot combination.

Mix to evenly combine.

For best taste, refrigerate for 2 hours and serve.

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Copycat Cole Slaw Directions:

First, whisk together your mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, mustard and salt.

Add cabbage and carrot combination.

Mix to evenly combine.

For best taste, refrigerate for 2 hours and serve.

Enjoy these Chick-fil-A Copycat Recipes including chicken, fries, sides, drinks and more! Pin to Pinterest.

Also check out these Panera Cocpycat Recipes. Pin to Pinterest.

FREE National Park Day in August 2019 – Hundreds of Parks for FREE

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August 20, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Entertainment, Free

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Quick & Easy Church Halloween Costumes

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September 14, 2021 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

Quick & Easy Church Halloween Costumes. Ideas for trunk or treat, Sunday school parites, bible study, Awana and more!

Quick & Easy Church Halloween Costumes

When I had one child, I think I was ready for Halloween around August. Even if I did not have my child’s costume (I always did), I knew what my child was going to dress up as. So things have changed. Preparing ahead isn’t a thing anymore ( I say that, preparing this post in May), in fact I am lucky to get it all done last minute. I have learned to perfect the last minute.

If you are last minute like me, we put together some quick and easy Halloween Costumes for Church. These are not necessarily biblical Joseph and Mary costumes, but they are fun costumes (some quite funny/punny) that are appropriate for church. The bible costume we did for Awana last year, was all done within a few minutes before we had to leave. Some of these costumes, you might want to do a few days ahead as paint or dyeing could be involved, others can be done in just a few short minutes!

Happy candy collecting… Happy Halloween!

We share with you earlier in our 31+ Family Halloween Costume Ideas, our Awana costume – the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament.

Fruits of the Spirt Costume – Love, Joy and Peace (boy it would be fun to have some of those other fruits too!) We picked up these Fruit T-Shirt Costumes.

Also see this year’s Awana costume, I was the Burning Bush (what Moses saw in Exodus.)

One of my girls was the Red Sea (a red C – get it.) We planned for her to wear red but the clothes were too small, so some confused it with the Black Sea.

Another daughter, was a Blessing in Disguise! Get it?

Bust out your hot glue gun and bag of multi-colored pom-poms for this Gumball Machine Halloween Costume Idea. | A Casarella

Mac n Cheese Halloween Costume. We don’t think this is cheesy, do you? | Costume Works (Detailed directions can be found here.)

One easy 10 minutes Halloween costumes using supplies at home include this Shepherd Nativity Costume. | Vanilla Joy

Make a quick and easy rain cloud costume. This great last minute costume can be made in under 2 hours for under $15! Bonus: it works for kids and adults alike. Pair this with the rainbow costume and rain coat costume we shared in 12 DIY Costumes. | Make It Love It

Oh dear, holy cow! Turn this idiom into a costume. Pick up an antler headband and an angel halo. | Source

The Fruit of the Spirit Costume. I would love if they had the fruits attached to the costume – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. | Source Unknown

The Price is Right Halloween Costumes. You could even make some of your bids your memory verses! Like (John) 316. More on how to make a Price is Right costume! Amazon has a game show microphone, perfect for a Bob Barker host. | Source

Put on a clear trash bag and put balloons inside your bag to create a bag of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans Costume. This is cute for a prego woman with a jelly belly or works for the kids too! | The Sway – The SIIts Girls (Wiki has the Jelly Belly logo)

Jonah in the whale! | Source Unknown

This punny costume is based on popular US saying – Blessing in disguise. You will need disguise glasses and nose. | Club Crafted

Want some ranch with that salad? Load up on green tissue paper. | Justine Huxley on Instagram

Anything no sew is perfect for me. Save the sewer system with this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Costume. Can you tell what makes this shell? Hint. | A Night Owl

A red scarf, a black and white stripe shirt and (maybe) a beret are likely found in your closet. Craft a piece of toast for a French Toast punny costume. | Shontemarie on Instagram

Brown felt and yellow poster board make this easy giraffe Halloween costume. | Source Unknown

Pink or White Outfit + multi-colored pom-poms + Felt Ears = DIY Frosted Animal Cookie Costume. | Studio DIY

Love Curious George? Grab a monkey lovie and perfect this Man With the Yellow Hat Halloween costume. Pick up some Rit Liquid Fabric Dye. | Haute Apple Pie

This DIY Crayola costume is cute for a single crayon or multiple. A water bottle keeps the hair up. | Source

Tracie did such an amazing job with this Icee Costume. See her step by step tutorial. | Penny Pinchin Mom

Be a ceiling fan! Get your Go Celings t-shirt online or make your own with a white t-shirt and Sharpie or washi tape. | Source

It’s not a challenge to make an Easy Lego Costume, all for the cost of paint and some time. | Lovely Indeed

Holy guacamole! This punny Halloween costume combo is both heavenly and delicious.| Woman’s Day

A blanket, pig ears and a pig nose make this pig in a blanket costume so easy! | Almost Super Mom

Any churches do Trunk-or-Treat? Save these Trunk or Treat Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

Also save these group and Family Halloween Costume Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

And for later in the year, save these Awana Grand Prix Rules, Templates, Cars and more. Pin to Pinterest.

Edible Fake Blood Cupcakes Recipe

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September 8, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media

Making Edible Fake Blood is easier than you think – only two ingredients. Pour your bloody drizzle on our homemade cupcakes for the perfect Halloween Food Craft.

Edible Fake Blood Cupcakes

We love when the fall season hits – Halloween,Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are kicking off our Halloween ideas with our Edible Fake Blood Cupcakes Recipe. This fits perfectly with our Halloween Food Crafts for the Kids. Be sure to pair this sweet recipe with our salty and tasty Halloween Jalapeño Popper Mummies.

We supplied a homemade vanilla cupcake recipe, but you can use a box mix or you could pick up cupcakes from your local bakery. Just ask them not to ice the cupcakes. Sometimes I do that when I don’t have time for all the steps (aka baking the cupcakes) but I still want to personalize, home make cupcakes. No one ever knows (well they do, because I tell them. They find it as genius as I do!)

This cupcake recipe also goes perfectly with our trailer park murder mystery party!

Cupcake Ingredients:

Edible Blood Ingredients

Edible Fake Blood Cupcakes Recipe

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Cupcake Ingredients:

2 cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vinegar
2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup oil
1 cup water
1 can of your favorite white frosting

Edible Blood Ingredients

½ cup corn syrup
10–20 drops red gel food coloring

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First, reheat oven to 350-degrees.
Mix dry cupcake ingredients together in a medium bowl.
Mix wet cupcake ingredients together in a medium bowl.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients in 1/3 cup increments and mix until smooth.
Next, fill muffin cups almost full as this recipe does not rise a significant amount.
Place in the oven and cook for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from heat and cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
While your cupcakes are cooling, make the fake blood by combining the corn syrup and food coloring into a bowl and stirring until the color is consistent throughout.
Using a decorating tip, make a hole in the top of each cupcake, saving the remnants from each hole for use filling the hole in a moment.
Place 1 teaspoon of the fake blood in each cupcake hole.
Replace the top of each cupcake hole.
Using your largest star tip and a piping bag, frost the cupcakes in a circular fashion.
Drizzle each cupcake with ample amounts of fake blood.

Enjoy!

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Edible blood is so easy to make. Only two ingredients – corn syrup and red gel food coloring. You could add some flavoring like vanilla or cherry, but be sure to not change the thick consistency the corn syrup provides. Drizzle over the cupcakes until you get the right look. You could also pickup these edible knives (meat cleavers) for spooky cupcake decor.

Edible Fake Blood Cupcakes Recipe

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Very easy to make, only two ingredients for fake blood!

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½ cup corn syrup
10–20 drops red GEL food coloring

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Make the fake blood by combining the corn syrup and food coloring into a bowl and stirring until the color is consistent throughout.

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Our Pinterest community and I would love to see how this worked out for you. Share your final bloodly cupcakes recipe. Leave a comment and/or add a photo here on Pinterest!

Bloody Cupcakes Directions:

First, reheat oven to 350-degrees.

Mix dry cupcake ingredients together in a medium bowl.

Mix wet cupcake ingredients together in a medium bowl.

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients in 1/3 cup increments and mix until smooth.

Next, fill muffin cups almost full as this recipe does not rise a significant amount.

Place in the oven and cook for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Remove from heat and cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.

While your cupcakes are cooling, make the fake blood by combining the corn syrup and food coloring into a bowl and stirring until the color is consistent throughout.

As seen above, using a decorating tip, make a hole in the top of each cupcake, saving the remnants from each hole for use filling the hole in a moment.

Place 1 teaspoon of the fake blood in each cupcake hole.

Replace the top of each cupcake hole.

Using your largest star tip and a piping bag, frost the cupcakes in a circular fashion.

Drizzle each cupcake with ample amounts of fake blood.

Enjoy!

Also enjoy our 31+ Edible Kid’s Halloween Food Crafts. Pin to Pinterest.

Save your candy with these Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes. Pin to Pinterest.

Take your bloody cupcake recipe to a Trailer Park Murder Mystery Party. Pin to Pinterest.

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August 14, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Amazon, Online Shopping

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