Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Most Great Hallowen Decorations for Halloween Day 2011 Part 3

1. Craft Stick Mummy

Halloween Craft Stick Mummy
Party guests are sure to get wrapped up in this activity: crafting mini mummies to take home as favors when the festivities are over.

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Materials
  • Wire snips
  • Wooden craft sticks
  • Wooden craft spoons
  • Glue dots
  • 1 square yard of muslin torn into 1-inch-wide strips (this should be enough for at least 7 mummies)
  • Small googly eyes
Instructions
  1. Craft Stick Mummy - Step 1 With the wire snips, trim 2 craft sticks to 2 1/2 inches for the arms and 2 more to 3 inches for the legs. Attach an arm and a leg to each side of a wooden craft spoon using 1 glue dot per limb.
  2. Stick the end of a muslin strip to the skeleton with a glue dot and wrap the rest of the length around the wood, using another dot at the end. Wrap 4 or so more strips around the skeleton in this way. Use glue dots to attach googly eyes.

2. Creepy Crawlers

Creepy Spider Halloween Decoration
Just like the real McCoy, these metallic spiders make an eerie appearance dangling from the ceiling or crawling across a table top.
Materials
  • Wire cutters
  • Lead-free solid soldering wire
  • Copper or steel pot scrubber
  • Elastic thread
Instructions
  1. Creepy Crawlers - Step 1 Use wire cutters or a strong pair of scissors to cut the lead-free solid soldering wire (sold in most hardware stores) into four 15-inch lengths (a parent's job).
  2. Twist one end of a copper or steel pot scrubber to form a spider's head and wrap the center portion of each wire just under the head to create four legs on each side of the body.
  3. Bend the midpoints and tips of the legs. To turn your creation into a hanging spider, simply tie a long piece of elastic thread to the scrubber.
Variations:
Use a metal measuring spoon for the spider's body, bending the spoon handle under with pliers to shorten the head.
 
 3. Floating Ghost

Floating Ghost Halloween Craft
Give this spirited specter a little push to get it moving, and let partygoers conjure up guesses as to what keeps it floating eerily just above the floor.
Materials
  • Lightweight white craft wire
  • Clear tape
  • White tissue paper
  • Lemon
  • Black marker
Instructions
 
  1. Floating Ghost - Step 1 Tape 2 pieces of 12-inch-long white craft wire in criss-cross fashion to a 14-inch square of double-layer white tissue paper.
  2. Floating Ghost - Step 2 Trim the paper into a circle, cutting through the wire, then flip over the tissue and set it over a lemon. Use your hands to loosely mold the center of the paper over the lemon to form a ghost head, then use a black marker to add facial details.
  3. Concealing the lemon, place the ghost on the floor or a table and give it a nudge to set it in motion.

4. Ghost Town

Ghost Town Halloween Decoration
Haunt your home with a tabletop village inhabited by spooky ghosts and tiny trick-or-treaters.
Materials
 
  • Paper lunch bags
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Crayons, markers or tempera paint
  • Newspaper
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Small tree branch
  • Colored tissue paper
  • Cotton batting
  • Poster board
  • Plastic bottle cap
  • Small orange beads
Instructions
 
  1. Ghost Town - Step 1 BUILDINGS: To construct each building, trace around an unopened paper lunch bag onto a piece of corrugated cardboard and then cut out the tracing. Use the same method to make a second cardboard cutout.
  2. Ghost Town - Step 2 Now fit the matching cardboard pieces into the bag and stuff the middle with newspaper. Then use markers or paints to transform the stuffed bag into a store or house (remember that the bottom of the bag will be the roof). Once you've finished making buildings, arrange them on a sheet of poster board.
  3. Ghost Town - Step 3 LANDSCAPING: For an autumn tree, just use a bare trimmed branch. Cut a hole in the poster board to fit the base of the branch and apply glue if needed to hold it in place. (You can even use a craft punch to make miniature tissue-paper leaves to glue onto the tree or pile on the ground.)
  4. Ghost Town - Step 4 Add a plastic bottle cap basket filled with orange-bead pumpkins and a stack of miniature dried-grass hay bales. Then you can haunt the finished village with paper bats, cotton ghosts and tiny trick-or-treaters (see instructions for crafting them below).
  5. Ghost Town - Step 5 WITCHES: For a body, bend a pipe cleaner into an inverted V. Twist a second pipe cleaner around the first to create arms. Glue on tissue-paper boots. For a dress, cut a head hole in a black tissue-paper square, then slip it on and tie it with yarn. Glue on thread for hair and a paper hat.
  6. BATS: Bend a 1-inch length of pipe cleaner into a V, then glue it onto black tissue-paper bat wings. Use floral wire to attach the bat to a building or tree.
  7. SPIRITS: Using the same method described for making a witch, but fashion a body from white pipe cleaners. Glue cotton batting to the body, front and back, until well covered. Use a black marker to draw on eyes and a mouth. Then tuck the finished ghosts between buildings.
  8. GHOSTS: For a trick-or-treater ghost, craft a stick figure from pipe cleaners. Drape a white tissue over the body and then use your fingers to scrunch and shape. Draw on eyes and a mouth.

5. Little Trick-or-Treater

Homemade Ghost Costume for Kids
For those of you who don't have enough money to hire a professional ghost to haunt your Halloween hideaway, just make this great Little Trick-or-Treater to haunt your porch. Plus, he'll work for free!

Materials
  • 2 dowels, each 24 inches long and 1 inch in diameter (or use pieces of an old broom handle--just be sure it's not your best flying broom!)
  • 1 pair of old children's sneakers (size 12 or larger)
  • Electric drill and drill bit
  • Two 3/4-inch screws
  • 1 pair of tube socks
  • Sand
  • Duct tape
  • 1 pair of child's pants (size 4 or larger)
  • 1 shoe box
  • Ribbon (optional)
  • Stapler
  • 7-inch lightweight ball
  • Circle of white material, about 40 inches in diameter. Buy fabric or recycle an old sheet, tablecloth, or ghost. Use a double layer if fabric is see-through.
  • Black permanent marker
  • Paper bag with handle (for goody bag)
  • Binder clip (optional)
Instructions
 
  1. Fit a dowel inside and up against the center back of one sneaker. Drill through the back of the sneaker into the dowel to make a screw hole. Screw the sneaker and the dowel together. Repeat to make the other leg.
  2. Fill each tube sock with enough sand to fill the shoe and knot the top. Stuff the sand-filled socks deep into the shoes and tie the shoes tightly. Duct-tape the tops of the socks to the dowel legs.
  3. Fit the pants over the tops of the dowel legs and let them rest at the ankles.
  4. Tape a shoe box between the dowel legs so that the tops of the legs are about halfway up the sides of the box. Pull up the pants and secure them with staples, tape, or a ribbon strung through the belt loops and knotted.
  5. Tape the ball to the top of the shoe box as shown. Drape the circle of white material over the ball and secure it by stapling the cloth to the pants in back.
  6. Use the marker to draw black eyes and a mouth on the fabric. Decorate the goody bag if you like, then staple the material around the handle or fasten it with a binder clip so it looks as though the Little Trick-or-Treater is holding the bag.
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