| A fun activity during Halloween is to decorate | | | | A glass luminary can be made by using simple |
| your home with hand made art and craft | | | | glass canning jars. Cut out a skeleton face, a |
| decorations. With a little imagination, one can make | | | | ghost face or a pumpkin face on a sheet of |
| wonderful decorations to beautify the house and | | | | paper. Tape the paper to the front of the jar and |
| give it that festive look during Halloween. It is not | | | | spray paint with either black or orange color. Place |
| necessary to be an expert at craft making, but a | | | | a candle inside the jar and light it up to give an |
| little imagination and ingenuity will go a long way to | | | | eerie look to the house! |
| succeed in this project. A quick search on the | | | | Another simple Halloween decoration can be made |
| Internet for ideas on homemade decorations will | | | | with the help of orange construction paper. Cut |
| speed up your imaginative powers. You can come | | | | out several pumpkin faces and tape these to the |
| up with some creepy looking decorations by | | | | windowpane. You can light up the window by just |
| making use of simple household items. | | | | placing a table lamp on the inside. This will throw |
| One way to decorate your driveway or walkway | | | | up spooky shadows to greet your visitors. |
| is to place pumpkin or skeleton luminaries. All you | | | | Decorative candles are another easy Halloween |
| need is brown paper lunch bags, orange or red | | | | art décor. Glue on trinkets, beads, colored |
| spray paint, sand, and candles. Take the brown | | | | threads or buttons to some dark colored candles, |
| paper bag and cut out a skeleton face or a | | | | or use candles in the classic Halloween colors of |
| pumpkin face. You can spray-paint the bags either | | | | orange and black. You can use decorations like |
| orange or black or use the colors for alternately | | | | fake cobwebs or spiders to give a creepy look to |
| placed bags. Weigh down the bags with sand and | | | | the candles. Simple white school glue will be |
| place small tea candles or votive candles inside | | | | sufficient to stick on these items. |
| glass votive cups in the bags. You can place these | | | | There are various websites to give you an idea |
| creepy luminaries all along the walkway up to the | | | | of making easy Halloween art and craft |
| front porch for a spooky effect. It is a great way | | | | décor. Get your kids involved in the |
| to lead the trick-or-treaters towards the treats | | | | project, and they will have great fun designing |
| awaiting them. | | | | some ghoulish decorations for Halloween! |