Devilish decor
Give your home that Hammer House of Horror feel without going overboard on plastic tat...
Give your home that Hammer House of Horror feel without going overboard on plastic tat...
- Make monster hands by stuffing clear plastic disposable gloves with popcorn that's been shaken in green food colouring. Califrau
- Buy a plastic brain from a toy/joke shop then put it in a clear plastic tub and fill it up with green jelly. It will look like one of those medical specimens. If you cant find toy brain you could always use a cauliflower. hisgirlfriday
- Make a ghost and bat mobile. You need two long strips of strong card, coloured black. Arrange them in a cross with glue or sellotape. Make two ghosts and two bats to hang on the mobile. The ghosts are the very cheapest white cups that you get in office water coolers. Turn upside down. Drape a mansize tissue over the cup, thread some ordinary black sewing thread through the bottom of the cup to tie onto the cardboard cross and use black felt pen to draw on a scary ghost face. The bats are simply a bat shape cut out of black paper. The clever bit is that you must use three threads to get the bat to hang correctly - one at the end of each wing and one in the middle. Pacific
- Make floating ghosts: balloons draped in crepe paper, suspended from the ceiling on invisible thread. Purpleduck
- Be careful buying 'spooky sounds' CDs. I bought one once that sounded like the soundtrack to a snuff movie. It reduced my hard-nut Goth of a daughter to tears and totally creeped me out, too. GrumpyOldHorsewoman
- When the time comes to carve your pumpkin, draw the pattern on the pumpkin first, then stab along the lines - in a dot-to-dot fashion - with something pointy. Then carve. Califrau
- How about pom-pom spiders? All you need is two rings of cardboard and some black wool to make the pom-poms & black pipecleaners or wool to make the legs.Stick on 2 white bits of cardboard for eyes & there you go. If the mobile is hung above a radiator the rising heat makes the bat wings flap and the tissues on the ghosts flutter. Mirage
- Spooks Punch - it's basically a blood red punch (mainly cranberry juice) with ice hands floating in it. Freeze water or lemonade in surgical gloves tied at the end. They look really effective. Bamboo
