Photo: © Antonis Achilleos/Woman's Day
Everyone's favorite Halloween sweet is no longer limited to the candy dish! This easy-to-make wreath utilizes the colorful candy for a fun homemade decoration.
1. You’ll need a Styrofoam wreath (ours is 16 in.), black duct tape, a hot-glue gun, a wide ribbon and candy corn (we used Brach’s).
2. Cover the wreath in tape.
3. To get a sense of how the corns will fit, lay them around the wreath in single rows, with one row pointing left and the next pointing right, but don’t glue down. (It won’t take long and your final product will be more polished.) Remove the corn from the wreath and hot-glue the pieces in the pattern one at a time, starting from the outer edge of the wreath inward, until you’ve covered the entire top and side.
4. Repeat the process in the center, starting at the same point as you did for the top so that you can cover any corn-free space with the ribbon when you’re finished.
5. Wrap ribbon through the wreath at the candy corn seam, tie into a bow and hang on a sturdy nail.
5 Spooktacular Wine Bottle Crafts
Turn empty glass vessels into scary Halloween decorations with these easy projects
Vampire & Ghost
1. Using a paint scraper, remove labels from empty bottles of wine. Soak to loosen glue, scrubbing with a sponge. Dry. (You can also use Goo Gone, found at most grocery stores.)
2. With black and white paint pens, draw on faces.
Jack-0’-Lantern
1. Remove label from an empty green bottle using the instructions for Vampire & Ghost (see above).
2. Wrap blue painter’s tape around the barrel of the bottle, stopping where the base begins to curve toward the neck. Using a pen or marker, draw triangle eyes and a toothy grin in center.
3. Lay bottle faceup on a dishtowel to keep it from rolling around. Carefully cut along the markings with an X-Acto knife. Peel off the surrounding tape, leaving the eyes and mouth stuck to the bottle.
4. Using orange spray paint, cover the bottle from the base to the neck. Let dry until paint is no longer tacky, then remove the tape.
Witch
1. Remove label from an empty green bottle using the instructions for Vampire & Ghost (see above).
2. Wrap blue painter’s tape around the barrel of the bottle, stopping where the base begins to curve toward the neck.
3. Using black spray paint, cover the untaped part of the neck to form the cone portion of the hat. Let dry until the paint is no longer tacky.
4. To make the brim, cut a circle about 8 inches in diameter from black card stock. Center the bottom of the bottle inside the circle, trace it and cut out with an X-Acto knife. Peel off the tape. With a black paint pen, draw on eyes, nose, mole and scowl. Slip circle over bottle neck and rest at black spray paint edge.
Ghouls
1. Remove labels from empty bottles using instructions for Vampire & Ghost (see above).
2. Cut out droopy eye and moaning mouth shapes from copy paper. Imperfections in shape will only add to the spookiness.
3. One at a time, hold the paper pieces up to the bottles. Using white spray paint, lightly spray the pieces. The paint will bleed through the paper and land softly on the bottles.
4. Slightly heat bottoms of taper candles with a flame, then set in bottles; don’t leave lit candles unattended.
Spiderwebs
1. Remove the labels from full bottles of red wine
using the instructions for Vampire & Ghost (see above). (When soaking bottles, be careful not to get the corks wet.)
2. Using a fine-tipped white paint pen, mark a dot for the web centers and draw lines outward. Starting near the center, connect lines with arcs that curve toward the midpoint, spacing arcs farther apart as you go out.
Photographed for Woman's Day by Antonis Achilleos
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