If i did it this week I’d prob be the first in my town. I LOVE Halloween and really hate to have to take them down so soon. (I take mine down the day after–im not one of those tacky people that leave lights up all year!) Me and my daughter really have fun putting all the stuff up.
Any good/simple/CHEAP ideas for decorating my yard?
It’s actually the PERFECT time yo decorate!!! …People love to drive by and see festive holiday yards…..and I think it’s actually becoming a dieing art…so few people are doing it any more…or they just put a pumpkin out and that’s about it….
As for fun inexpensive, yet impressive ideas for the yard is the GIANT black widow spider…here’s what yo need and how to make her…
supplies needed are : Hit a 99cent store for these…
Kite string..
tape..
3-4 boxes of cheap trash bags…
NOW take 2 bags and stuff them with something light weight like leaves and tie shut. make 1st bag fully stuffed for the body..
and the 2nd bag half full for the head….
Decorate the head to have a face and mop hair.a tall witch hat? Give it really BIG eyes and great BIG white toothy smile so it can be easily seen at a distance….now tie the ends of the trash bags together and or tape it.. the head and body are now ready to hang…..
One year I hung the body using kite string , suspended in the air near my front porch so people coming walk past it and it’s looking at my visitors…
Now for the 8 legs…each leg has 3 sections to it so use 5-6 trash bags for each leg……or use even more to make the legs REALLY long!!! Stuff each leg ( bag ) long ways and tie the end…use the clear tape now to shape the bags into narrow long tube shapes about as thick around as your upper leg…..( get it ?) Now connect these together to make REALLY long legs….
Now tape these legs one at a time to the spiders body and drape them here and there using kite string…..
get creative with hanging the legs…drape some on the roof. hang some from the roof….even make some extend out to nearby tree branches……have one hang over you walk way path to get to your porch….ect……
Now that mama spider is hung and done , spend a couple days on the floor in front of the TV and make a whole bunch of babies ……As dats go by add more and more babies to the yard….people love to come by and watch the yard decorations grow and grow …..
The babies can be hung in the same way ALL over the place. Make them using only one bag stuffed and pinched at the middle to create head and body…make the head smaller then the bodies half….BIG WHITE EYES and LONG skinny legs are needed for the babies…you don’t even need to stuff the legs just scrunch the bags together loosely and tape to shape…..
Have fun !!!!!!
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