A Halloween Tree..

simply a branch painted black... Home made decorations...

Ornaments to make:


These little ornaments are perfectly spooky, in a friendly kind of way. Definitely fun to make, perfect for hanging around for trick or treaters!

You will need:

Glass ornaments
Acrylic Paint: passion, pumpkin, black, leaf green
Jones Tones Dimensional Paint: black, pearl green, red
Glow in the dark paint
Water based varnish
Brushes
Masking Tape
Scissors
Ribbon orange, purple, black
Shrink plastic
Scraps of black and orange felt


What you do

Clean ornaments first. Use glass cleaner or rubbing alcohol inside and out, wipe with a paper towel to dry. Be sure the inside is dry if you put paint in it.

You can pour paint inside and roll around to cover completely then place open end in a paper cup to drip out excess paint. Alternatively, you can sponge 2 or 3 coats of paint on the outside. After features are painted on, these will need a coat of water based varnish.

The caps can be painted if you like to match the ball. The paint on this will not stick as well, so handle carefully. They do look better painted! After the caps are replaced, tie a bow around just below the cap using appropriate color of ribbon.


Cat - black ball: Cut larger ear from black felt and smaller piece from orange felt.Glue orange pieces to black pieces. Use the black dimensional paint for glue. Paint on eyes, mouth, nose, whiskers. Let dry. You can add glow in the dark on eyes and teeth. Attach ears with black dimensional paint. Let dry.

Spider - purple ball: (pictured above) Cut legs from shrink plastic. Paint purple to match ball, 2 or 3 coats to cover. Use black dimensional paint for mouth, nose and eyes. Fill eyes with glow in the dark paint. Let dry. Use black dimensional paint to glue legs on. Use masking tape to hold while drying.


Bat - black ball: Cut wings from shrink plastic. Paint same color as ball on one side. Use dimensional paint to outline the other side. Let dry. Use the green pearl to make the eyes, nose, mouth and teeth. Fill eyes and teeth with white or glow in the dark paint. Use shiny red for pupils and drops of blood below teeth. Let dry. Use Dimensional black paint to glue wings in place with outlined side to the front, hold till dry with masking tape.

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Spooky Halloween Tree with Ornaments
This crafty Halloween tree shows you're in the scary spirit! Get the kids involved in creating and decorating a tree using Christmas ornaments.

Halloween heralds the beginning of the holiday season and displaying a crafty Halloween tree shows you're in the scary spirit. Get the kids involved in creating and decorating a tree using Christmas ornaments.

Collect twigs and small branches from your yard or purchase some at a craft store. We used curly willow for our tree. Look for twisted, spooky-looking branches sturdy enough to hold your decorations and tall or short enough to fit the scale of your ornaments. You can use the twigs as-is or spray-paint them black on a tarp or newspapers outdoors.


While those dry, embellish the ornaments for the tree with a variety of peel-and-stick Halloween stickers. We decorated white Christmas glass balls for our tree but you can use any color and mix decorated balls with plain ones if you want.

Finish the ornaments by threading the tops with 9- or 10-inch lengths of narrow ribbon in black, orange, purple, or black-and-white dots. Knot it at the top so you can slip it over a branch of your tree.

To create the tree branches, simply arrange your painted twigs in Styrofoam or floral foam, being careful to stick the twigs in as far as they'll go. If you want a tree that will last year to year, secure the branches in plaster of Paris. To cover the foam, dot the top with hot glue and press a handful of Spanish moss over the top.

With your decorated ornaments dangling from its limbs, your Halloween tree is sure to give a friendly fright to anyone who sees it.



Supplies
* Gnarled twigs (such as curly willow)
* Black spray paint (optional -- could use twigs as-is)
* Tall pot, tin container, or other tall narrow vase
* Styrofoam or floral foam
* Spanish moss
* Satin or matte ball Christmas ornaments (in orange, black, or white)
* Halloween stickers
* 3 yards of narrow (1/4-inch) black and white ribbon (3 yards will make about 10 hanging loops)
* Scissors



Instructions
1. If desired, spray-paint gnarled twigs black and let dry.

2. Push sticks into a block of Styrofoam or floral foam in a container. Or secure the sticks in plaster of Paris and let set up.

3. Arrange handfuls of gray Spanish moss to cover foam and hot-glue here and there to hold it in place.


4. Carefully peel stickers from the backing paper. Position them gently on the ornament, pressing in place until the shapes adhere.

5. Add a ribbon hanger to the ornament top. Knot ends and trim as desired.

6. Hang ornaments on your homemade twig tree.

This was the Halloween Tree I made:



I couldn't find a small black tree, but I found black garland with tree like branches. So I bought a small Xmas tree and cut off the branches with a wire cutter. I then cut new branches from the black 6' garland and twisted them to the base of the xmas tree, until I had all new black branches.

I picked up Halloween ornaments from Michaels... oh and strung orange string lights..