Fall Crafts (Sweeney and Sampson

Reduce, Reuse, and Spook!

By Audrey Sweeney and Maggie Sampson

Reduce, Reuse, and Spook!

It's time to transform your home into a festive Halloween town with easy, low budget, DIYs that will impress all the trick-or-treaters and make your environmentalist heart happy. Every wreath, pumpkin, and cute decor can already be found in your recycling bin. There is no need to waste money on convenience store spider webs when you can make your own reusable spiderwebs out of your trash! So, save that extra cash to buy the jumbosized candy bars and make these sustainable DIY fall crafts:

Egg Carton Wreath:

Materials: 1-2 empty egg cartons, paint, glue, miscellaneous cardboard

Steps: 1. Cut your cardboard into a circular wreath shape 2. Cut each individual egg holder from the carton and cut even slits on the sides (for flower petals) 3. Paint each “flower” 4. Arrange and glue “flowers” on carboard wreath

Sweater Pumpkin:

Materials: 1 sweater sleeve, newspaper ball (or really anything you can shape into a pumpkin), Hot glue, green ribbon

Steps: 1. Open the sleeve by making a cut down the length of the sleeve 2. Wrap the opened sleeve around the newspaper ball and shape into pumpkin 3. Close any gaps with hot glue 4. Apply embellishments with ribbon or anything else you’d like to use! 11

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Fabric Ghost Statues

Materials: Any sort of white fabric, scissors, tape, black marker, old newspaper/ anything that malleable

Steps: 1. Cut white fabric into large squares 2. Form old newspaper into ghost body parts with tape and attach 3. Drape white fabric over newspaper mold 4. Draw eyes/add embellishments

Trash Bag Spider Webs

Materials: 1 trash bag, Scissors, Tape/wall applicators

Steps: 1. Decide on a spider web design 2. Cut open the trash bag so that it lies completely flat 3. Cut trash bag into a large square 4. Fold the trash bag in half 2-4 times over 5. Cut designs into the folded bag (think paper snowflakes)

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