Comments for Homemade Halloween Decorations Guide at http://www.orenoque.com/topten , comment 0 to 20 out of 35 comments http://www.orenoque.com/topten Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:34:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_132 What about making some salt dough decorations? The kids can help, its inexpensive and you can make some really effective decorations. You will need 2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of table salt and 1 cup of water for the salt dough mix (some people add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to aid the mixture's elasticity). Knead the dough until smooth and roll out until about half an inch thick. Use cookie cutters or the lids from jars or canisters to cut round shapes, then use something like an empty biro case to place a small hole at the top of the circle, for hanging. These can be placed on an oven tray and baked for approx half an hour on a very low temperature, say gas mark 1 - keep checking the shapes and if they start to bubble, remove them from the oven, press the bubbles down and put them back in. Once the shapes are dry, paint them like halloween characters (lots of different-looking pumpkins can look effective) and thread string or wire through the holes in the top of them and hang them around the house as a rustic-looking halloween garland. You could also roll the salt dough into different sized balls and have them as mini-pumpkins or you could be really creative and mould some salt dough monsters! You could also collect dead leaves, wash them and dry them out and string them along a piece of wire and hang as a garland. Pumpkin seeds from a carved pumpkin can be dried out and added to oil (or butter), garlic and chilli and baked on a low heat for about 20 minutes and served in a bowl as 'witches fingernails'. Black bin bags can be opened out fully and shredded, then hung over doorways, and they can also be used as spooky-looking curtains over windows. Another very effective idea (although this should be done by adults only) is to collect empty food cans, wash them, fill them with water, and freeze them. Then, after approx 24 hours, take the cans out of the freezer, and, using a long nail and a hammer, hammer holes in the can, maybe in a star or moon shape or a witches hat. Wait for the water to thaw (the ice keeps the can in shape while you're hammering it) and use the can as a candle holder - it will throw the shapes you've hammered in all around the room, and they look great if you paint them in halloweeny colours! Hope these have been of some help! - Rachel Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:21 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_131 dood i like the idea with the tissue paper ghosts. very kewl and inexpensive. hmm. any more ideas.? - nataliya Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:52:58 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_130 it doesnt helo me at all - Jordanne Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:32:51 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_127 All you need is some tissue a foam ball and toothpick.Take The tissue and place it on the fome ball evenly then use the toothpick to keep it in place. Put the tooTh pick in the top. - Ryan Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:47:28 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_126 I need a good idea for halloween decorations and I'm not really too thrilled about th ones you guys have been putting out. Any ideas? - deeda Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:47:29 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_125 If you have old plastic trick or treat pails, or you can go buy them cheap for a dollar at walmart, get the scariest one you can find, or one that looks like a pumpkin. White or orange is the best for the light to shine through. Put it over your outside light and you instantly have a spooky lighted halloween face. We have a sensor light and I hang it to the light with fish line, without covering the sensor, then on Halloween night I flip the switch so the light stays on. You can also use white trash bags and old milk cartons to make ghosts. cut a hole in the bottom of the carton and thread white bag through, then draw a face on the carton. Or cover the carton with the bag leaving enough to hang below, tie a string around the neck part and draw a face on part of bag that is covering the carton, Use your imagination. Also you can make grave stones out of cardboard, if your afraid the cardboard will get wet and yucky in the weather, cover with black garbage bag, and use white spray paint write RIP, or Here Lies Last Years Trick or Treaters. Here's a quick tree decoration for the yard. Instead of buying those little ghosts you stuff with news paper. cut squares out of a white garbage bag, wrap a long twist tie around a wad of newspaper, poke the end of the twist tie through center of the plastic square, wrap the square around a wad of newspaper with enough plastic to hang down and tie the head off with another smaller twist tie or string. Hang a bunch of them from the tree branches or along a fence. One more idea, If you have old unused costumes, stuff them with cloth or newspaper to bring them to life and stick a pumpikin or again an old trick or treat pail with a face on it, or even a mask, and use that for the head. Bring the costume to life and either hang from a tree, or sit on a chair next to your front door. Use your imagination, have fun, think like a kid, and you'll have a spooktacular Halloween! :) - rosebud79 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:38:39 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_124 there all brill idears i might do these idears - georgia Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:36:16 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_121 i need really creative ideas for halloween party. INDOOR decor.. but nothing sad or cheesy. - mel Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:23:15 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_120 what if you have not mutch time and you want to make your parents scared have no money and want a realy good halloween partey plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz reply xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx great ideas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from gemma age:11 - gemma Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:54:07 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_119 i ♥ crafts do u ♥ it 2 - Hannah Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:32:09 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_118 i want 2 fuck u - i want 2 **** u Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:30:17 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_117 rugayimnotbutwhocareswecandoitanywaygetitswawty - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:27:53 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_116 sabrina up their is GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAYYYYYY jk ily not - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:26:23 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_115 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:24:56 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_114 &heart; &heart; &heart; &heart;&heart; &heart; &heart; &heart;&heart; &heart; &heart; &heart;&heart; &heart; &heart; &heart; - &heart; &heart; &heart; &heart; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:23:20 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_113 &heart;&heart;&&heart;heart;&heart;&heart;&heart;&heart;&heart;&heart; - &heart; &heart; &heart; &heart; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:22:16 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_112 &heart;[s]♥[/s] - o Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:21:08 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_110 You can make egg carton bats. Take an egg carton, cut out a piece of it (3 egg cups is one piece) Cut the front half of the left cup, leave the middle cup alone and cut the front half of the third cup. Paint the whole thing black. Then add eyes and fangs with white paint. (white out works just as well) - Halloweenfreak Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:20:02 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_109 I WANT TO HAVE THE COOLEST CREEPYST HOUSE ON THE BLOCK IDEAS - SABRINA Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:02:11 +0100 http://www.orenoque.com/topten/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=163#pc_108 GET A BLACK TRASH BAG AND SHRED IT ALL THE WAY BUT ABOUT 3 INCHES AT THE TOP AND TAPE IT TO THE FRONT OF THE DOOR AND TADA! YOU HAVE A CREEPY DOOR ENTRENCE - Sarah Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:54:45 +0100