I love this idea from Martha Stewart...
I have some bats from last year that i cut out and put on the wall...but not as many as she has here. Going to have to go and get myself some more black paper, lol!
The kids and i have been busy creating lots of spooky decorations. I love watching them get all excited and creative. An easy craft idea for kids is our pipecleaner spiders.
All you need is a styrafoam ball, some black paint, black pipe cleaners, and either red paint or googly-eyes for thier eyes, and a skewer.
- Pop the styrafoam ball onto the skewer and paint it black. Let dry.
- Paint or glue on eyes. You can paint some fangs on too if u want.
- Get the pipe cleaners and stick 4 in each side of the ball, making the spiders legs. Bend pipe cleaner in the middle.
- Viola! You have a spider!
We hang them up from the cieling,or attach them to webs on the walls.
I also always hang some from the trees in the front yard...it's always fun to watch people freak out when they feel the 'spider' brush thier shoulder.
I also created this centre-piece for the table.
This super super easy . I got some branches off a dead tree in the backyard, and spray painted them black. Then i added some black glitter to the branches as well. When they were dry, i stuck them in a vase and hung some cheap decorations from the $2 store off them.
And my Little helper....
Isn't he cute?
You've sure been busy, the house is lookin' spookygreat! I wanna to come to the party!
Posted by: debbie | October 26, 2008 at 03:28 AM