Make your Own Halloween Decorations
Get in the Spirit with Easy to Make Halloween Decorations
Halloween is a fun time of the year. It is the time when all the skeletons come out of the closet literally as well as witches, black cats and jack-o-lanterns. The great things about Halloween decorations is that they don’t have to be expensive and can turn your home either into a scary place to visit or a whimsical place to be.
While many people spend hundreds of dollars on Halloween decorations this doesn’t have to be the case. You can make very simple and expensive Halloween decorations or pick many up for a song to decorate your table, your mantle, your door or even the entire outside of your house.
Make Pumpkins The Focal Point of your Halloween Decorations
In the fall pumpkins are quite cheap and come in a variety of shapes and sizes that make them the ideal decorating medium for this Holiday. By using large and small, round and oblong pumpkins you can create an amazing group of Halloween decorations for your table, stands and even outside your home.
By using small mini pumpkins and carving them into jack-o-lanterns and then putting either a votive or tea candle inside you can create unique, funny, scary or simply cute candle holders for your table, buffet or mantle. Using a large carved out pumpkin that will hold a flower vase inside you can create a lovely floral Halloween center piece for your dinner table or living room stand. You can even use a permanent marker to put a face on your pumpkin flower vase if so desire.
Oblong pumpkins are great for turning into scarecrow and witches heads. Simply draw on the the eyes and mouth and then use modeling clay or even a carrot to attach a nose. A little green yarn for hair and a paper witches hat and you have a witches head that only takes minutes to make. You can also draw a face on a pumpkin, set it on straw and give it a straw hat to create a scarecrow head. You can then set these heads on stuffed clothing to complete the witch or scarecrow or simply line them up on your deck or porch railing to create a eerie headless entourage. Clearing a small area of the yard to look like a hole and setting the head on that will give the appearance of your witch or scare crow being buried up to their neck in your yard.
Ghostly Visions
You can inexpensively create small ghosts for display in your home by simply scrunching up tin foil to form a ball for a head or buying small Styrofoam balls and gluing them to milk bottles and covering the entire thing with white material and drawing on a face. For those who want arms on their figurines dowels run through the plastic bottle at the appropriate place can make great arms.
Outside, white garbage bags can be used to create Ghostly visions hanging from trees or even the overhang of your roof.
There are many other decoration ideas that can be found to make your Halloween holiday special and fun.
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