Halloween

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Halloween Decoration Ideas:
With Halloween not far away, it is time to think of how to decorate your home and patio with spooky delights which will not only be easy to make and also not cost you much. If you are planning to make your own decorations at home, this is a good time to start. Small Halloween ornaments and eerie candles and theme-based spooky centerpieces are sure to scare monsters of all age groups. You need to check through your supplies for weird props, products that could be used. A little bit of pre-planning and checking with your neighborhood shops for creepy, scary supplies will also yield good results. Think of your lighting effects and how much battery operated votive candles are required, procure your pumpkins for innovative jack-o-lanterns, paper plates for masks, witch hats, accessories; card-boards, ribbons, glitter glues, silk flowers, skulls and everything that you need beforehand. Plan what you want to make and place in which part of your house. Think of the safety hazards if you have small children.

Easiest Homemade Halloween Decorations Crafts:
A. Hanging Decoration Crafts:

1. Ghost Hangers:
Materials Required: White golf balls; white handkerchiefs; paint; black marker pen; glue; transparent tape; scissors; white or clear yarn; pencil; Googly eyes;
Method: Glue the handkerchiefs to cover the head of the golf ball and let it hang. Tie them at the neck with yarn. When dry draw eyes and mouth with pencil on the golf balls. Stick googly eyes in the eye area. Leave to dry. Paint the mouth and teeth red. Leave to dry. When dry stick some yarn to the head of the ghost with transparent tape and hang from curtain rods or fireplace mantel.

2. Spider Glow Cobwebs:
Materials Required: 3 Ice cream sticks; glue; small round glow stickers; black paint; plastic spiders; transparent yarn/elastic;
Method: Glue the sticks together in a criss cross pattern and leave to dry. Paint the sticks black and leave to dry. Tie the transparent yarn to the center of the sticks and start wrapping all round from one stick to another to form a web. When the sticks are fully covered till the tip, tie the yarn securely and cut off extra. Stick the small circular glow stickers at equal intervals on the sticks and the yarn web. Fix a plastic spider with yarn and tie it to the web so that it dangles. You could make a string of such cobwebs and spiders and hang them on the doorway.

3. Eerie Mummy Door Hanger:
Materials Required: 30 inches white muslin cloth; sewing machine; polyester fiberfill; thread and needle; 2 black beads for eyes; scarf; pencil; scissors; pins;
Method: Spread out the muslin cloth and draw a simple doll pattern on it with a pencil. Fix the body pattern with straight pins and stitch the doll. Leaving 1/2 inch margin for seam allowance, cut the body. Pinch the back if the body and cut a slit. Now turn the doll inside out and stuff the fiberfill through the back slit. Stitch the back slit well. Now cut thin strips of the muslin cloth and tie a secure knot at the leg of the doll and keep tying the doll till it is covered from head to toe well. You could place two old buttons on his chest and two on his legs to make him more secure. Cut a small piece from the discarded scarf and tie it around the mummy. Stitch it in place. Stitch the two black beads as eyes. Take a thin piece of muslin and tie it from one hand of the mummy to another. This can act as the hanger.

4. Dangling Bats:
Materials Required: Black paint and brush; Black felt paper; googly eyes; elastic; glue; clothespin clips; black construction paper; stapler; Bat template;
Method: Paint the clothespin black and leave to dry. Spread the felt paper and cut out the bat's body and head using the help of a template. Paste the bat on the clothespin clip. Cut out big wings and staple them to the bat's body. Glue googly eyes to the head. Make as many bats as possible. Take the elastic cord and clip the bats hanging upside down to it. Tie the elastic near the window and curtain rods or any place suitable.

5. Halloween Banner Craft:
Materials Required: Construction paper of different colors; black construction paper; Scissors; Glitter glue; embellishments (adhesive gemstones; Halloween stickers); Paint and brush; Big alphabet stickers; glue; punching machine; elastic cord;
Method: Think of a write up for your banner. For Example "Spooky Halloween". Take a black construction paper and cut in into 15 squares (no of alphabets), 2 inch larger on all sides than the size of your alphabets. Take an orange colored construction paper and cut it slightly smaller than the black squares. Stick the orange squares to the black ones. Embellish the outer boundary with adhesive gemstones. Spread a white construction paper. Arrange the black embellished squares evenly spacing them. Leave more space between 5th square and 6th square as they will form 2 words. Draw scallops or any other pattern on the white chart paper as boundary decoration. Cut on the lines drawn. Remember to leave some space for your embellishments on the white space. Stick the alphabets very carefully. Add spiders, stickers and ribbons and other embellishments as you want. Sprinkle glitter glue where ever you want some shading. Punch holes at the top of each alphabet and string them. attach to a fireplace mantel or entrance or any place of choice.

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