House Haunting: Decorate Your Home for a Halloween Party

Throw a spook-tacular Halloween party for all the ghouls and goblins in your neighborhood.

By Amanda Kingloff and Suzonne Stirling

Heather Weston

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Ceiling Spider

What you'll need: Hot glue, black Fun Fringe (plumparty.com), large and small black paper lanterns, monofilament, white painter's tape, white and black sticky-back felt, scissors.

Make it: Hot-glue eight lengths of black Fun Fringe, four on each side, evenly spaced, to large black paper lantern. Use monofilament and white painter's tape to suspend small lantern to the ceiling in front of large lantern and to create the bends in the spider's legs. Cut two large white ovals and two small black ovals from sticky-back felt; adhere to small lantern as eyes.

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Comments (4)

sjr_and_dar wrote:

Jedi Training Camp: Cut foam pool noodles in half and use as light sabres. Kids pop bubbles from bubble machine with their new light sabres and can work in teams to keep a blown up balloon in the air. You can also set up an obstacle course with chairs, rope, extra pool noodles, etc.... You can also draw a huge "death star" with chalk on the driveway and let kids use water balloons to make the death star disappear.

10/6/2010 08:09:49 AM Report Abuse

mikstor2409855 wrote:

Let me know your Star Wars ideas, I'm looking for ideas for my sons birthday.

10/26/2009 10:12:50 AM Report Abuse

marybruin wrote:

But I want to hear your Star Wars idea!

10/19/2009 11:21:28 PM Report Abuse

cybersurfing.junkie wrote:

How cute This gives me another idea for the Star Wars themed party decor I am currently making! Thank you! I am just full of inspiration this year, and I got them all from the internet. It all started when I got so excited about Halloween last Spring (!!!!) and found this website (http://babycostumesusa.com/). It's amazing!

10/6/2009 10:46:28 AM Report Abuse