Halloween Projects

Ghost and Pumpkin Garden Decorations

Great Halloween ghost and pumpkin decorations ideal to use to greet your neighbourhood treat or treaters. Older children and assist in the entire process, younger children can be involved in the decoration.

You will need:
• Orange corrugated plastic for the pumpkin
• White corrugated plastic for the ghost
• Small piece green corrugated plastic for the stem of the pumpkin
• Yellow waterproof marker or paint with small brush
• Black waterproof marker or paint with small brush
• 4 wire coat hangers
• Wire cutters
• Pliers
• Electrical tape in orange and white
• Scissors
• Scotch brand foam Mounting Tape

How to make your garden decorations:
1. Draw a pumpkin shape onto the orange corrugated plastic and cut out. Make sure you cut it
  so that the channels in the plastic are vertical for maximum strength and to aid fixing.
2. Cut out a stem from the small piece of green corrugated plastic and attach to the pumpkin
  with the mounting tape.
3. Draw a ghost shape onto the white corrugated plastic and cut out remembering to ensure
  that the channels are vertical.
4. Decorate your cut outs using either waterproof markers or exterior paint.
5. Cut the bent hooks off the hangers with the wire cutters and unfold and straighten them..
6. Using the pliers, create a folded hook at one end of the straightened wire – the hook should
  be a tight fold.
7. Push two of these hooks down through the decoration so that they come out of the bottom
  and can be used to stake the decoration into the ground.
8. Secure the hooks at the top of the decoration with electrical tape.