Halloween is a fun holiday when mummers go from door to door, demanding food and gifts, threatening stingy owners with revenge of evil spirits. The symbol of All Saints Day is a “pumpkin head” – a pumpkin lantern with slits in the form of eyes and a toothy mouth, as well as a witch on a broomstick. On the eve of the holiday, a lantern with a lit candle is displayed in the windows of houses so that the evil spirits wandering around the neighborhood do not enter the house, thinking that it is already occupied by one of its.
Halloween Ideas
Many countries are carefully preparing for the mystical Halloween. Modern Halloween dates back to the ancient Celtic New Year, which was celebrated on November 1 according to the ancient calendar. The Celts believed that on this day they would be reunited with their deceased relatives for a while. (Hence the other name for Halloween, the Festival of the Dead.)
Halloween is a fun but also scary holiday. That’s why Halloween decorations should be fun as well as scary. Looking for something to surprise and scare your guests? So let’s get started!
How to decorate your house for Halloween
Mummy vase. For work you will need: a glass vase or jar, bandage, toy eyes and a small candle. In principle, everything is simple, we wrap a jar in a mess with bandages, deliberately leaving gaps, at the final stage we glue the eyes and install a candle inside.
Ghosts and ghosts
The ghosts floating around the house look especially impressive. To make them, you will need a large amount of gauze or plain white cloth. Gauze should be immersed in a solution of PVA glue mixed with water, inflate a balloon and wet gauze put on a ball, straighten it in the form of a ghost and leave to dry completely. After drying, deflate the ball, and draw on the surface of the gauze with a black marker – the eyes and mouth of the ghost. After that, such ghosts can be hung around the house, fixed on chandeliers, lamps, doors and hangers..
Jack’s Lantern.
Jack’s Lantern – Of course, this holiday cannot do without the well-known Jack’s lamp, carved from a pumpkin.
You can make original vases from pumpkin.
Candlesticks and lamps
Candlesticks and lamps. You can make such candlesticks from jars or glasses, paper and paint.
Candy bowl
Candy bowl. This holiday simply cannot do without all kinds of sweets, in particular sweets … Therefore, you can prepare cute vases for sweets, for example, paint transparent or tin cans with orange paint, draw eyes, nose, mouth and admire the result.
Entrance door
Front door that will immediately plunge you into the atmosphere of the holiday. Ravens and cobwebs, a homemade ghost and even a gravestone can all make a festive atmosphere and scare at the same time!
You can make a festive bouquet for Halloween from an old tree covered with cobwebs, with bats, spiders and a gloomy pot. Decorate windows and doors with black wreaths, with spiders and skulls.
