HOME KIDS TEACHERS COSTUMES PARTY DECORATE RECIPES SITE WREATHS Wreaths are easy to make. Purchase a styrofoam or straw wreath at a craft store. Cover the wreath with black or orange ribbon and cover with small plastic Halloween ornaments such as pumpkins, ghosts and bats. Spooky Group: • 1 yard of 14-gauge wire • 12 Styrofoam balls • 6 orange buttons • felt = choose your colors • paint -green, lavender, white & orange • Fabric glue • Scraps of black fabric • Yarn in lavender and black 1. Purchase 12 inch Styrofoam wreath. 2. Paint the balls, 3 green, 3 lavender, 3 white and 3 orange. 3. Make three each of the following characters: Pumpkin: Cut face from black fabric and glue to orange ball. Roll a 1 piece of green felt tightly to make stem, glue stem to pumpkin. Witch: Glue 2 button eyes and triangular orange felt nose to each green ball. Draw zigzag mouth with marker. Glue on lavender yarn hair. For hat, cut a circular piece of felt and form a cone, than cut a 3" circle for brim from black felt. Roll and glue peak and than cut even and glue to brim. Ghoul: Paint white eyes and mouth on lavender tennis balls. Add black lines for teeth. Roll a 1 inch strip of green felt for nose and glue to ball. Add black yarn for hair. For hat, roll 1 inch piece orange felt and glue end closed; glue bottom to center of a 2- inch felt circle for brim. Ghost: Draw face with black marker on white balls, leave eyes white in center. For the top hat roll a 1 inch piece lavender felt; glue side closed; glue to3 inch lavender circle for brim. Hot glue balls to wreath, alternating colors. Welcoming Hand: Made by twisting vines (from a craft store) into a circle and securing it with wire. Put on some fake plastic bugs, skulls, pumpkins, small witch or a rubber hand and attach with light wire. You can cut the letters "Keep out" from construction paper and attach them or make your own message. Eye see you: This wreath can be made by twisting vines (from a craft store) into a circle and securing it with wire. You can either cut the sets of eyes from thin wood and paint them or just use colored construction paper. Use a piece of felt to personalize your wreath with a message such as "dare to enter" or Happy Halloween". Wreath for all seasons: Made by twisting vines (from your garden) into a circle and securing it with wire. Add some berries by attaching with wire. This attractive wreath will look great from Halloween time to Thanksgiving. Candy wreath: This wreath might be too tempting to remain for long. You'll need 2 pounds of hard candy in wrappers, 8-foot length of strong thread, and a round wire wreath form 8 inches in diameter. First, tie the thread to the form, leaving two ends of equal length. Hold the form between your knees, and make a loose knot on the outside of the form; place ends of 3 candy wrappers through loop; tighten the knot. Tie another knot to the form, tie 3 candies to the inside of the wreath form, repeat until wreath is full, hang it from a ribbon. Back