Quick
And Easy Halloween Decorations
by
Colleen Moulding
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 secured with
string or thread ancd 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 color in
huge orange paper pumpkins using bright yellow to
represent the light shining through the eyes and mouth.
Any old Ghost buster toys that you have around can be fun
decorations for the table and an inexpensive centerpiece
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
Find
Halloween screensavers, scary jokes, party food, costume
ideas, games and lots more spooky stuff on a selection
of sites reviewed at <http://www.allthatwomenwant.com/halloween.htm>
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. She has
also published a variety of women’s and children’s
fiction. Her work frequently appears at many sites on
the Internet and at her own site for women and children
All That Women Want.com a magazine, web guide and
resource for women everywhere. Why not drop by? It was
made for you! <http://www.allthatwomenwant.com>
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