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Dollar Tree ghosts

Dollar Tree ghosts

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Since it’s Halloween around here and we wanted to get our spook on but not be too spooky with an easily-spooked four-year-old, I decided to make some homemade ghosts to hang up in the house because (a) they are less scary than the store-bought ones and (b) they are cheaper to make!

Lots of tutorials showed using styrofoam skulls or balls for the heads but I decided to try a different route with balloons! They’re way cheaper, have the same effect, and they should hold air for about a month (considering we still have balloons creepily hanging around the corners of our house from previous birthday parties!).

I would have loved to use lace as the sheath but I couldn’t bring myself to pay that much for a simple decoration that will be up for no longer than a month. I had originally planned to use cheese cloth since I think it would have turned out great, but the Dollar Tree didn’t have it. Instead they had two last packages of Creepy Cloth which was perfect!

You will need:

Cheese cloth or Creepy cloth (one package per ghost)

One white rectangle plastic tablecloth

white balloons

Black sharpie

paper clip/string

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Cut your tablecloth in half for two medium-sized ghosts

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Blow up the balloons and turn so the knot is facing up. Draw two spoooky eyes. Make a hole in the tablecloth and slip the knot through. Then place the cheese cloth/creepy cloth over it. Pull the knot through the paper clip and tie with a string to hang. Once hung, use some scissors and trim off the pointy edges so they’re rounded.

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