I realize this is posted at the eleventh hour, however I came up with a couple fast decorations for halloween themed windows for my little guy to enjoy.
I took some transfer tape, applied it to a window, penciled in silouettes of ghosts, pumpkins, whatever, then hand cut them and weeded them. The images are easy to remove, kids can color them if they wish, and it has a ghosting appearance on the windows. Turned out neat!
I have a large picture window on my shop. I took some 20" white intermediate vinyl, lined it side by side on my cutting table, taped it together, then on the back I drew a huge ghost silouette. I hand cut it and scotch taped it to the window with a moon and stars, vinyl side facing out. HUGE impact!
As I have alot of vinyl roll tape in stock, I took some white thin, and created spider webs on our windowed doors in the house.
Probably too lake for most of you to decorate at this point, however if you DID decorate or have any ideas on easy stuff utilizing our trade, I'd love to hear about it!
[ October 31, 2001: Message edited by: Donna in BC ]
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One Halloween my son (then 4)had planned to go out wearing one of those thin plastic costumes that tie in the back.
The weather turned cold, windy and was snowing as we were getting ready. This costume was not going to cut it as it would not fit over the layers of clothing needed to keep him warm.
So, I found a dark sweat shirt and sweat pants... large enough to cover his layers... grabbed an exacto and some scrap white reflective material and started cutting "bones". He was a very cool and visible skeleton that year.
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Sitting here waiting for trick-r-treaters (kids out treat'n with ma)... this sucks, I should be swamped with em' (as years past) ... I've had 9, this sucks, I love halloween. This year we made a spontanious scarecrow from corn stalks ... threw the kids in the car (not telling them where we were going) ... drove over to the nearest dead corn field and filled the trunk ... my son (concience of family haha) was so worried someone was gonna care we took a dozen dead corn stalks out of miles of fields ... "here comes a car, hide!" ... "aw dad cut that out" .... haha plus (wait more treat'rs ... yeah) as every year I hang my reflective coroplast webs on my house (this year the peices are together centered above light ... still had this pic on old server)
speaking of old pics on servers I still have one I did a few years back with my kids sidewalk chalk (on my driveway duh) inside the text is/was about a 16' circle (wait - treat'rs ... nope ... damm this sucks) anywho...
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We didn't get a whole lot of trickertreeters, maybe a couple of dozen (normal) but there were a lot of comments like, "This is the coolest house I've ever seen!!" Mostly it was parents coming up and telling us how cool they thought it was.
What really helped was I put up a double set of 4 foot long black lights.
I wove a giant spider web next to the door, had a black light on the grave yard (complete with tomb stones, a hand clawing it's way out of the grave, and a giant spider on top of the mailbox)
I had CD players in parts of the yard with CDs i burned from sounds I downloaded off the internet.
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This was the first year we didn't go all out decorating. We usually put up a haunted house type maze in the front yard, dress up as zombie types and scare the bejesus out of the big kids. Then for the little ones, we have a separate area with a little bowling game for candy. I make the pins out of the little MacArthur milk bottles and decorate them as spooky ghosts. The bowling ball is a squash (the kind that look like mini pumpkins). We didn't have time to do that this year and just as well, we only had 4 kids come to the door. We live in a very large neighborhood with a LOT of kids. I guess people weren't taking any chances and kept their kids home. Next year we'll plan a neighborhood party with haunted house and send invitations.
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