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Homemade Halloween Decorations Using Everyday Items

Our current rough economic times call for spirited individuals to get even more creative when it comes to decorating their homes for the Halloween season. The following seasonal art projects call for minimal shopping (and spending). Rather, they rely more on everyday items that most of us have sitting around our house. Scour your home and grab the kids to make these simple (no sewing involved) yet adorable Halloween crafts.

HALLOWEEN WITCHES MADE FROM SPARE GLOVES

Materials:

Glove

Fiberfill

Black Felt

Curly Doll Hair

Scraps of Fabric

Ribbon

Googly Eyes

Pipe Cleaner

Scissors

Fabric glue

Black Sharpie

Directions:

Stuff palm of glove with fiberfill. Push pinky and thumb inside the glove. Roll the cuff up and glue.

Fold the middle finger down and glue in place. Bend the remaining fingers down and glue down.

Use felt to roll a little witch cone hat and glue to felt circle as a brim.

Glue hair to head and glue hat on head.

Glue on felt rectangle for cape.

Make a small bow out of ribbon and tie at neck.

Cut fabric scraps into small squares to use for witch’s clothes (in any pattern you desire). Glue clothes on glove witch.

Glue on eyes, use Sharpie to color in a nose and use pipe cleaner as a broom.

HALLOWEEN CRACKERS

These Halloween treat holders are modeled after British Christmas crackers courtesy of Martha Stewart Living.

Materials:

Crepe paper in colors of your choice

Construction paper in your choice of colors

Scissors

Stickers or rubber stamps

Toilet paper rolls

Glue stick

Twine

Plastic spider or bat rings

Directions:

Cut an 11-inch square of crepe paper and a 4-by-7-inch piece of paper in another color; decorate with stickers or stamps.

Roll crepe paper around a candy-filled toilet paper roll; glue seams closed. Wrap a paper rectangle piece around center of roll and glue.

Tie ends with twine; snip for fringe. Slip rings over twine. Pull ends to break open.

Michele Cheplic writes about red-hot celebrities in POP CULTURE, fiery topics in PARENTS, sizzling recipes in FOOD, calorie burning exercises in FITNESS, and hot new kid-friendly crafts in FUN. Check out all of her articles here.

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About Michele Cheplic

Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism. She spent the next ten years as a television anchor and reporter at various stations throughout the country (from the CBS affiliate in Honolulu to the NBC affiliate in Green Bay). She has won numerous honors including an Emmy Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow awards honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast journalism. In addition, she has received awards from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for her reports on air travel and the Wisconsin Education Association Council for her stories on education. Michele has since left television to concentrate on being a mom and freelance writer.