Jackolantern Pictures

Need some quick Halloween decorations, that even children can help? Here are three great Halloween decorating ideas using easy to find, inexpensive materials.

Thugs Foam Craft

Craft foam is sold in sheets at the craft shop in a variety of colors. It is similar to construction paper, but thin, durable foam, you can easily cut with scissors. Trace simple Halloween shapes on the back of the foam sheets and cut. Use contrasting colors and a glue stick to add details such as Jack o lantern face, red eyes on a bat, or the face of a ghost ridiculous. You can make these cutouts as large or smaller than you want. Hang them in windows or hang with threaded rods as light curtains, doors, or in your front entrance. (This works very well with bats, hang them at the end of each wing, and a place on the body to make them appear to flying) These can even be used on protected porches as the foam is water resistant.

Cemetery

A cemetery near your front foot is a bit scary and creative spirit of Halloween. We used scrap pieces of plywood and siding and cut into rectangles with rounded tops, like a tombstone. We first painted them gray, then washed over them with a watery white paint for the age factor and the phantom. We used black paint to add fun names and epitaphs, such as "IM Gone" or "Ben dismembered." Screw participation wooded back and pound the ground. I want to consolidate an area of grass outside the ropes and chains, add a little pumpkin (and in my neck of the woods, tumbleweeds be nice) and line the edge of your "graveyard" with lighted for jackolanterns Hallows Eve. My children have lost the fun with this!

giant spiders and webs

Firstly, the decor of your spiders by picking up the straps ... it is really cheap, and stretches a long way! The corners of rooms or porches, or stretched on a door are great effects. For the spiders, pick up large black pom poms and large black chenille stems from the craft store. Take 4 chenille stems and twist them together in the middle. This creates the eight legs. Bend the stems down to halfway down each leg. Now use tacky glue or a glue gun (glue gun is my choice because it sets almost instantly, but the adult must handle this!) To ensure a large pom pom in the center of the legs twist to form the body. You can add google eyes as some do, but I prefer to cut scary red eyes from felt or craft foam and glue on. Set your spiders in their webs, and you can fold the legs of advice to attach a picture frame or a lamp chain. Remember, with this project, the bigger the better, to buy the bargest legs and pompoms you can find!

Three major projects for Halloween, to get enough of any of these and you can transform your home into a haunted house without the exorbitant price. (Do not forget to store for next year!)