Make it - Halloween Bunting
Make it - Halloween Bunting
This is an enjoyable way to start preparing for Halloween and for decorating your home for the autumn. You can be as versatile as you like and either go for the gruesome look (for example, using rags stained with red food colouring to look like blood-stained bandages) or for the sleek and stylish Goth look (using black and purple satin), or for colours of autumn (using strips of fabric of the earthy, russet, flame and berry colours). Then again you can just go for any colourful look or theme that fits in with your home and the mood of your particular Halloween festival.
Step 1
Gather your chosen selection of fabric together - you can use cheaply-bought off-cuts, or even old items of clothing you no longer want. Cut them into 30 - 50 cm long strips and about 4 - 6 cmd wide. For ease of use, lay each strip on top of each other to make small piles, with each pile being of one specific fabric. This makes it easier and quicker to gather and collate into your bunting.
Step 2
Cut a length of string - the length of this based on where you want to drape it - then tie one of your strips of cloth onto the strip so that the cloth drapes evenly from the string. Create different colourful patterns and make each piece of bunting as full or as sparse as you wish.
Step 3
Once ready, drape around your home, office, school room, nursery... wherever you want to decorate for Halloween.
Alternatives
Use different coloured tissue paper, plastic strips or paper strips that you have decorated previously.
Cut out bat silhouettes from black paper and hang with different lengths of black string from your main length of bunting string - hang across a doorway and it will look like hundreds of bats are flying into your room! Add day-glo yellow eyes cut out of sticky labels and the effect can be unnerving if you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night!
You can use different cut-out paper shapes - try bones, skulls and pumpkins!
If you have old net curtains, tie-dye the in grey dye and then cut long strips of fabric to make your bunting. Then drape over the windows for the abandoned, haunted house effect.
Happy Halloween!
This is an enjoyable way to start preparing for Halloween and for decorating your home for the autumn. You can be as versatile as you like and either go for the gruesome look (for example, using rags stained with red food colouring to look like blood-stained bandages) or for the sleek and stylish Goth look (using black and purple satin), or for colours of autumn (using strips of fabric of the earthy, russet, flame and berry colours). Then again you can just go for any colourful look or theme that fits in with your home and the mood of your particular Halloween festival.
Step 1
Gather your chosen selection of fabric together - you can use cheaply-bought off-cuts, or even old items of clothing you no longer want. Cut them into 30 - 50 cm long strips and about 4 - 6 cmd wide. For ease of use, lay each strip on top of each other to make small piles, with each pile being of one specific fabric. This makes it easier and quicker to gather and collate into your bunting.
Step 2
Cut a length of string - the length of this based on where you want to drape it - then tie one of your strips of cloth onto the strip so that the cloth drapes evenly from the string. Create different colourful patterns and make each piece of bunting as full or as sparse as you wish.
Step 3
Once ready, drape around your home, office, school room, nursery... wherever you want to decorate for Halloween.
Alternatives
Use different coloured tissue paper, plastic strips or paper strips that you have decorated previously.
Cut out bat silhouettes from black paper and hang with different lengths of black string from your main length of bunting string - hang across a doorway and it will look like hundreds of bats are flying into your room! Add day-glo yellow eyes cut out of sticky labels and the effect can be unnerving if you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night!
You can use different cut-out paper shapes - try bones, skulls and pumpkins!
If you have old net curtains, tie-dye the in grey dye and then cut long strips of fabric to make your bunting. Then drape over the windows for the abandoned, haunted house effect.
Happy Halloween!
Photographs of the bunting have been provided courtesy of Little Lenses Photography.
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