My brother & his wife challenged us to decorate the outside of their house for Halloween on a $20 budget. Easy-peasy – check out what we accomplished over the last few days:
I admit – Tom is the creative genius behind the entire concept. Everyone else contributed but Tom was the mastermind.
The scarecrow head, witch head, and large spider were all made with 2 coats of paper mache over balloons.
Yeah, Tom, ummm, working the paper mache on the witch nose. He had a really good technique.
The finished witch is AWESOME and we made it practically for free. We made the broom from some sticks & straw, the old graduation robe was in their “tag sale” box, and the hat was from a garage sale for a quarter.
Amanda painted the face of the witch and it is just so cool.
I painted the face of the scarecrow and it’s just a *tad* more simplistic.
But I stuffed the scarecrow in all the right places, if you know what I’m saying.
Here, we’re adding some finishing touches to the spiders. Tom glued pieces from a metal pie tin to give the spider some bling.
Bad ass spidey comin’ to get’cha.
Little baby spiders surround the momma spider. These spiders are made from an egg crate pieces and strips from a cardboard paper towel roll. The web is a metal pie tin with pieces cut out of it.
Ahhh! Our creation revolts and we’re treated to a fang-tastic death.
This piece is all Tom. He free-handed the skeleton bones to make a stencil.
And a few ghosts to round out our display. The heads are held up with plastic milk jugs and the hands are golf balls.
They now have the most awesomely decorated house in the neighborhood. We ended spending closer to $40 -- $14 on straw bales, $2.50 at a garage sale for a BUNCH of stuff, $15 on spray paint & urethane, $4 at Goodwill, and $5 on some miscellaneous things. But who cares, right? The decorations should be reusable next year and they ROCK. Plus, we had a lot of fun building all this stuff. Christmas ideas are already brewing…
We could probably have our own TV show on TLC or something.
-Jessie
6 comments:
And think of all the money you'll save on candy because that witch is CRAZY scary and little kids won't want to come to the door. :) Very, very nice.
That is sweet - Great Job, guys! Can we reserve you for next Halloween?!?! :-)
wow! very impressive. now i have to teach the kids how to decorate on a budget like that!
:) This stuff is awesome. I need to decorate my dorm room for Halloween because we do trick-or-treaty in the dorms. Not the students though, elementary kids from Fairbanks come and if we sign up then we can participate and give them candy. I am gonna do it but I am supposed to decorate my door, I am lazy though so it will probably be GMS!(<- for you Jessie :p)
Chels.
witch nose technique? did Tom teach that to you or learn it from you?
Paper Mache + rain = mess. So far we've lost one of the large spider legs, and the head is very close to falling off. The witch is doing okay but if you look closely or touch anything it decays in your finger tips. Keep your fingers crossed that it makes it to Halloween!
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