There is no need to spend lots of money decorating
your house for Halloween. These quick and easy
decorations use items you may well have around the
home.
Large hanging ghosts that will
sway spookily in the breeze outside can be made
easily by draping a white sheet, tablecloth or
pillowcase over a balloon and tying below the head.
Small ones for indoors can be made from white paper
napkins or kitchen paper tied over any small ball or
crumpled tissue paper or stuffed sock then secured
with string or thread and a face drawn on with
marker pens.
Scarecrows to decorate the party
room, trees, patio or porch can be put together
cheaply by stuffing old clothes with rags or rolled
up newspapers tied at elbow and knee to look
jointed. Faces can be made from the back of old
shirts or tee shirts tied over a ball or balloon and
hair can be stuck on made from straw from a pet
supplies shop, raffia, yarn or strips of fabric
poking out from beneath an old hat.
Creepy looking headstones can be
fashioned from painted cardboard or wood and joke
shop spiders and flies can be stuck on to windows
and doors with sticky tack. Spiders and flies are
also good for decorating sandwiches and the table,
but not if there are very young children around who
may actually try to eat them!
Children will enjoy cutting cats
from black paper and sticking on large eyes made
from kitchen foil or making bats to hang from the
ceiling by folding an oblong of black paper in half,
drawing half of a bat shape and cutting away the
excess.
Even very young children can paint
or colour in huge orange paper pumpkins using bright
yellow to represent the light shining through the
eyes and mouth.
Any old Ghostbuster toys that you
have around can be fun decorations for the table and
an inexpensive centrepiece can be made by using a
dollar store/pound shop black plant cauldron with a
large bowl inside it, or just a large bowl covered
with black tissue paper and filled with cola or
blackcurrant cordial plus a few grapes, cubes of
pineapple or pieces of apple floating around for a
gruesome looking witches brew. Have Fun!
Colleen Moulding
Copyright 2000
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jokes, party food, costume ideas, games and lots
more spooky stuff on a selection of sites reviewed
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About the author: Colleen Moulding
is a freelance writer from England where she has had
many features on parenting, childcare, travel, the
Internet and many more subjects published in
national magazines and newspapers. All That Women
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