With a few simple kitchen tools and a little time you can turn this:
Into this:
Simply take an apple, peel it, carve features with an apple corer or pumpkin carving tools, give it a lemon juice and salt bath, add some eyes made from cloves, dried whole peas or peppercorns, teeth made from rice or seeds and watch the apple transform as it dries into a ghoulish shrunken head Halloween decoration! For detailed step by step instructions about how to make shrunken appleheads for Halloween, visit my Squidoo page: Shrunken Apple Heads