by A. C. O'Brien

Created on: July 01, 2010   Last Updated: October 11, 2010

"Halloween," the word brings to mind scary ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks, spiders, scare crows and things that go bump in the night. Ghouls of all sorts crawl out of the depths of the frightful darkness and roam the streets startling the innocents. Halloween has been known to scare many an parent too. Fear of the price of all that spooky fun for your home can quickly put the kibosh on many a frightful idea. If you are looking to dress up your home for this harrowing holiday you need more then a few orange and black balloons in the doorway.

Yet we dream of clever easy home decoration for the front porch or stoop. We wish for an easy non-fi-fearful process to decorate for this fun filled holiday.

Halloween deco does not have to be costly. It can be done easily with a few simple items that you already have around your home. Take out your supply of plastic garbage bags and the those supermarket plastic bags that are hanging out somewhere in your home., The white trash bags, with a rounded stuffed corner for a head, make wonderful ghastly ghosts. The black ones with a bit of scissor work and some stuffing can be transformed into an amazingly huge spider.

Take that white bag trash bag and tatter the open edge with a scissor leaving it shredded and raggedy. Stuff one of the corners with some old recycle plastic bags from the grocery store creating a rounded head shape. With a black marker place an open, "O," for the mouth and two solid black spots for eyes. Hang this casper creature from the back of his head and pull up one or two corners of the tattered edge to create the illusion of flight. It will for all the world look like a true and fearful ghost at night.

For your spider, the process is similar. Divide the open end for the legs, you will need 8 legs cutting the bag from the open end, leave enough of the bag in tact to stuff a head and body on either corner at the closed end of the bag. You can always cut deeper but once you've cut too deeply it is difficult to repair. Cut two points, lobster claw style on the end of each leg. If you take two pointed leaves and overlap them at the stem end, you will have a perfect pattern for your spider claw foot, just leave the stem end of the leaf shapes attached to the spider's leg. Save the trimmings from this process, you will need them later. Your next step is to create the body of the spider. Use the same recycle plastic grocery bags

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