Going batty for Halloween
Every year at Halloween we are facing a bit of a dilemma. We both love Halloween and everything related to it: pumpkins, decorations, costumes, crazy food, trick or treating, etc. But Halloween is not celebrated in Austria, and if we decided to go all out and build a pirate ship (my dream) or a full graveyard (Richard’s choice) in our front yard, our whole town would deem us totally cuckoo and untrustworthy. Bummer. So, in order to minimise the pain, we have so far limited ourselves to carving pumpkins and displaying them in places that cannot be seen by the neighbours. However, this year we also decided to decorate one corner of our flat for Halloween.
We wanted something cheap and fairly easy, and we came up with paper bats. Since our printer is currently out of ink, we had to trace the outlines of the bats from our computer screens onto some white paper:
We used a free template from Martha Stewart for this. We then cut out the white bats,
and used them as templates on some thicker black paper. Because we are cheap, we tried to fit as many bats on a sheet of paper as possible.
When the sheet was covered in bat outlines, we cut them out, which was the most labour intensive step of the whole process.
We wanted to stick the paper bats on a wall, and since we didn’t have any bluetack or doublesided tape in the house, we used simple tape.
When we tried to decide how to arrange the bats on the wall, Richard had one amazing idea. You see, we have these round white covers that hide electric cables and can be taken off easily. This is what it looks like when you do take one off:
And what my genious boyfriend came up with was this:
Brilliant, don’t you think? And because we really liked the bats and they had been much easier and quicker to make than we expected, we decided to add a crow into the mix as well:
We sat her on an old and dry branch, which we decorated with some spiderwebs made from some cotton wool.
The rest of the set-up includes one of our lovely crates we got from Richard’s granddad, as well as some pumpkins (including our creepy viking), some little plastic spiders and an old lamp that is hiding behind the crate. This is what our finished Halloween corner looks like now:
How do you decorate your home for Halloween?
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