It’s that time
of year where very odd humans appear on the lawns of many homes in Vermont. You
have to do something with all those fallen leaves, so they become the stuffing
for various clothing items, resulting in odd looking characters on lawns, roof
tops, sitting in chairs or guarding the mail box. Since many places don’t have
the volume of leaves Vermont offers, make a Halloween wreath for the door.
Start with a
wreath form that you can pick up at the Dollar Store or repurpose one you have
on hand. The Dollar Store is the perfect place for inexpensive skulls,
feathers-particularly black, orange and purple, ribbons and anything else that
may give you that spooky edge. Wrap the wreath form in ribbon (strips of
yellow, black and purple give you that witches’ sock feel), duct tape or
feathers. Start adding various Halloween items and enjoy.
This weekend I
went looking for interesting items and found that Wilton makes pieces of
skeleton candy mold. Since they were 50% off, for a dollar I now have a way to
make lots of bones for my own wreath. At the moment, it’s covered in duct tape,
with a group of black flowers, also made from duct tape. Think a few white
bones, made from air dried clay, will be the perfect addition.
If the wreath
is going to hang in a sunny spot during the day, be sure to add some day glow
paint so it glows eerily after dark. Of course, you can always pick up glow
sticks and insert them in the wreath after dark. Look around and you can
probably find very inexpensive eyeballs and skeleton parts that are designed to
be “glow in the dark.”
Nothing sets
the scene like music. The stores are loaded with all sorts of Halloween music
on CD’s and of course you can download from iTunes. However, Spooky Soundtrack offers sound effects, music and even scary stories for free. Pandora offers four stations including Halloween
Party, Family Halloween, Spooky Symphonies, and Ghostly Groves.
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