Milk Jug Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkins

I started working on some milk jug Jack-o-lanterns today from some milk jugs I been saving to use for Halloween decorations. I got the idea from there Spirit Jugs project I found while looking up DIY Halloween decorations for the yard. I thought they were soooo cute, but I love Pumpkins during Halloween and Thanksgiving time so I decided to make mine pumpkins : )


Here's what I have done to make mine:

Milk Jug Jack-O-Lanterns

(It's being lite by a Flash Light to give you the idea of what it will look like)

What you will need:

• Milk Jugs
• X-acto knife
• Jack-o-lantern face patterns
• Orange, black, red, and green paint (either spray paint or acrylic paint will work)
• Clear coat paint
• Pumpkin lights
• Optional: Newspaper for stems

What I did:

I took some pumpkin face patterns online and drew them onto the Milk jugs.

 I then used the X-acto knife to cut out the faces on the milk jugs, on the back side I cut out a little flap spot to be opened to place the pumpkin lights in later.

 I then painted the whole jug orange.

 Once the orange was dried I used black and red to trace around the areas I had cut out so that when the light is on you are able to see the face design better.

I plan to get a news paper and twist pieces of it up and then paint them green. Once they are dry I will use a glue gun to glue them to the top of the Milk jugs to make it look even more like a pumpkin. Once I do this part I will use the clear coat paint on the entire pumpkin to protect the paint from the elements.

As soon as I finish them I will up-date this post asap so that the finished pumpkin can be seen : D

Aud

I made Halloween Bats

One of my favorite Holidays is Halloween and I wanted to start making some decorations for it. We can't always afford the big huge things I would love to have for the Holidays so I wanted to look stuff up and find things we could make that would look awesome and some creepy scary for our yard. I found a bunch of cool things we will be making but I made these bats first because I was able to use stuff I already had here at home : D


I used Martha Stewart's Hanging bats as an idea and looked online for some smaller templates as well. You can use the one from this blog or use the allyou "bat storm" template. I made a bunch for our home to decorate with and used clear packing tape to seal them so if we use them outdoors (which we plan to) the rain or other weather elements wont ruin them and we can use them for more Halloweens!! Here are some pictures of the ones we made : )

They are so cute, I made some solid black ones with black construction paper and the orange and purple ones I used some of my Halloween scrapbook paper I had. I can't wait to work on some of the other projects I want to try and do like Black cat window silhouettes, Homemade tombstones, reusable jack o' lanterns, Human sized ghosts, spirit jugs, spooky trees, and mouse motel out of a pumpkin just to name some  of the stuff we are excited about. I will post pictures of the things we make and do my best to post links to how to make your own like I did with the bats!! I know it's early for Halloween but I wanted to try and get some things made here and there so we wont be n a hurry to to make them in time for Halloween. Later all    : )

Aud