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[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"39743","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","alt":"Halloween porch"}}]]The Children's Museum Guild Witches—known for designing our spook-tacular Haunted House—are sharing their expert spooky decorating tips! This Halloween, make your home look just as fa-BOO-lous as a real haunted house!
- Floating Witch hats. In your entryway, hang witch hats with fishing line or invisible thread from the ceiling so they seem to be floating. Put a witches broom or two in the corner.
- Make your own ghost. Blow up a balloon. Use a plastic cup or other container to hold the balloon. Cover the balloon in cheesecloth and cut to desired length. Spray with starch. Let dry and pop the balloon. Glue on googly eyes or use felt to make eyes and mouth to glue on. Use invisible thread to hang.
- Candy Centerpiece. Use two clear vases. One must be shorter and able to fit inside the bigger vase, but only allows 1 to 1-1/2 inches between the two. This space is where you will layer different types of Halloween candy. You can start with jelly beans on the bottom, then Peeps, candy corn, or any other Halloween sweets you like. Finish by adding flowers to the center inside vase.
- Vampire Fangs Place Card Holder. Get a pair of vampire fangs. Cut an appropriate size piece of card stock to fit between the upper and lower teeth. Use this for place cards at the dinner table or to let guests know what food items are on the buffet.
- Decorate mirrors in your entryway, guest bath mirror and kids bath mirror with Halloween window or gel clings.
- Halloween art. Find online and print one of the many free Halloween Subway Art signs. Get a frame from the dollar store. Paint it black or orange. Frame your sign and place it on your table.
- Buy spider webbing. Place it in the corners of a window and stretch it out to the desired thickness of your web and secure it. Decorate with spiders and other creepy crawly things.
- Make a Halloween Tree. Get a spooky looking sturdy branch from your yard. Keep it natural or paint it black. Secure it in whatever type of container you like so the branch will not move. You can use rocks, dirt, florist stones, etc. Hang Halloween ornaments and display on a tabletop.
- Glowing Eyes. Take an empty cardboard toilet paper tube and cut a creepy looking eye shape into it. Do this with several tubes and cut many different looking eye shapes into them. Insert a glow stick in each one. Put these outside in the bushes to make them creepy.
- Change your outdoor light bulbs to orange or purple to give your home a creepy look.
Make sure to get your tickets and come to see the witches’ spooky décor at The Children’s Museum’s Creepy Carnival Haunted House this Halloween season, Wednesdays to Sundays October 11-31. Come if you dare…
Photo courtesy of Good Housekeeping.
