subject: Halloween Decor Gore [print this page] Want to have some fun and decorate your home with creepy, eerie decorations sure to get oooowwhhs, aaawwhhhs and screams?
Here are 7 fun ideas that will do just that.
1. Creepy little shrunken heads in a jar. This will creep out your guests with a collection of severed heads. These little skulls are actually just peeled and cleverly carved out apples in a jar full of white vinegar. After carving out the eye sockets and nostrils, fill them in with black gel icing from the cake-decorating aisle at your favorite craft store so these features will stand out. Create several jars of these gruesome little heads. Label each jar with gruesome creative names such as Hannibal Lector victim or the Donner party leftovers.
2. Specimens Framed. Go thru your kid's toys for plastic spiders, snakes or black bugs and frame them under glass, use vintage specimen frames or new shadow boxes. Spruce up the frame with a coat of black paint and add a new paper background, such as beige to show off the bugs more clearly. Hot-glue the specimen of choose to the paper background to your liking. perhaps 3 of different sizes shown vertically in the center of the page. Finding ugly, ghostly skeleton leaves can be fun to frame as well. Maybe small ugly skeleton heads or black rats of different size.
3. Ghostly rocks. This is a fun project for adults and kids. Using fine-tip black gel pens, the gel pens which are found with scrap-booking supplies because they have such intense inks, draw or trace the skeleton and skull faces of different sizes and shapes to flat white river rocks. The kids can collect these for you or you can find the very flat smooth ones in craft stores or with the accessories you can buy for plants. You can then fill a shallow dish with them, or hot-glue magnets to the back of the rocks and stack them on the refrigerator door.
4. Shocking Lab containers. Select an arrangement of glass canisters, vases, and goblets of your choosing, fill them with the imaginative ingredients of a witch's brew. Purchase a bag of cotton from a fabric store or craft store to fill a couple of the containers with to look like smoke, or scary spider webs. Use plastic spiders to mix in. Have fun using seed pods, twigs, shells, black plastic snakes and eerie looking bugs to place in the containers. Create you own labels or find some on-line to download. Get creative with these labels, things like Warlock Root, Petrified body parts, you can use gummy body part candies for these containers also. Toy rats, or eyeballs work for potions. Red food coloring works for drips of blood on the container or labels.
5. Bold Skulls. Make a papier-mache skull, purchase the supplies at your favorite craft store. Make it look recently unearthed from a grave by painting it with cream-colored acrylic paint. Give it the look of age with a light wash of burnt-sienna pigment from the craft store. Use a dark grey color for around the eye sockets.
6. Screamin spiders. Dangle spiders on the fridge or magnetic bulletin board, pin it in place with decorated rocks turned into magnets. There are some pretty spooky looking ones out there. Many spooky enough to get a few screams out of your guests, especially if the room is a bit dark.
7. Mumified bones.This is very easy to do yet effective. Find some long twigs, peel off all the bark to look like human leg or arm bones, then, with hot-glue, pick out some funky looking rocks to act as the bone tips, pick out two for each bone tip. Glue them to the tops of each twig, one on each side. When they have dried, wrap the bones as you would if it were a mummy, round and round with narrow long strips of white muslin or sheeting. Dab on wet tea to stain the bone wrappings. Create some fun labels to describe them. Something like bones of my former boss, Norm or my husband caught cheating.
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Halloween Decor Gore
By: Becky E Day
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