Homemade Halloween Decorations

Easy To Make Ghosts

Make Your Own Halloween Decorations

Decorating your house can follow the theme that you set with your homemade Halloween party invitations.

For decorations here are couple of simple Halloween party ideas that will thrill the kids and not take up too much of your time. The kids can also color in some of our free Halloween printable decorations which you can also use as decorations.

Cheesecloth Ghosts
We have two different Halloween party ideas here both using inexpensive cheesecloth. The first are a little fiddly but give a superb result which can be kept for future Halloweens.

The Floating Ghosts are much easier and will really excite the younger kids. To keep the ghostly theme, you can cover your furniture with white sheets. The mood can be completed by synthetic cobwebs and pipecleaner spiders.

Materials
Cheesecloth
Fabric stiffner or PVA/white glue
Googly eyes
Balloons
Nylon thread

First, blow up the balloons and sit them in drinking glasses; this will provide a form for you to mold the ghosts around.
Cut squares about 12-14" of double layers of cheesecloth.
Dilute the fabric stiffener/glue 1:1 with water and dip the cheesecloth squares into the glue mixture.
Wring out the excess and drape the cheesecloth over the balloon in a ghostly shape.
You can have the ghost's hemline trail on the table for a standup ghost, or you can have a sheer drop for a flying ghost.
Allow the ghosts to dry overnight. When dry, remove the balloons, glue on the googly eyes and attach nylon thread to the heads of any ghosts you want to hang.
Hang the flying ghosts wherever appropriate!
The standup ghosts can stand on a table while your guests try to work out how they stand up!

Floating Ghosts

Materials
Cheesecloth
Helium Filled Balloons
Nylon Thread

Start with a piece of cheesecloth 2 yards long and 1 yard wide. Place a helium filled balloon (white is best) in the middle of the fabric and gather loosely around balloon. Draw a face or features on the cloth with a felt pen. You can put some ghosts in a box and when people open the box they will float up and scare everyone! Or, you can place them on string in front of an open window or a fan and watch them gently float in the breeze.

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