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 and 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 colour in huge orange paper
pumpkins using bright yellow to represent the light shining through the
eyes and mouth.

Any old Ghostbuster toys that you have around can be fun decorations
for the table and an inexpensive centrepiece 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!



Copyright
Colleen Moulding

Colleen Moulding is owner/editor of http://www.allthatwomenwant.com
a magazine and web guide for women everywhere. Visit our Christmas
pages at http://www.allthatwomenwant.com/xmasindex.htm where you
can check out Colleen's new Christmas ebook full of decorating and gift
ideas, foodie treats and printable wish lists, place cards and a
printable
letter from Santa.