Outdoor Halloween decorations – Ring Around the Ghosties

Ring Around the Ghosties

This is a really neat looking craft and pretty easy to make with materials you can find around the house, for the most part. They look especially good when circling a central pole, such as a tree or lamppost.

Here are the materials you will need:

• 6 wooden dowels
• Small white garbage bags
• Newspaper
• Masking tape
• Old white sheets
• String
• Black permanent marker

Cut your dowels to the height you’d like your ghosts to be. They can be any size from toddler height which is quite cute to larger than life which is quite spooky! Remember: the larger the ghosts, the more sheets you’ll need to use.

To make a ghost head, stuff a small white garbage or paper bag with crumpled newspaper or leaves to the size you like. Push one of the dowels into the bag, and then wrap masking tape around the neck to secure. Repeat for the rest of the ghosts.

Drape a sheet (or half a sheet, if you’re making small ghosts) over each head and tie a piece of string around each neck. You may need to experiment with cutting your sheets to the right size; here, we used a queen-size sheet for each ghost and rounded the bottom edges to the desired length.

Use permanent black markers to draw a face on each ghost.

Gather your ghosts around the tree or pole — with a foot or two between each one — and push the dowels into the earth so that the sheets touch the ground. Angle the ghosts so that they are leaning slightly backward, and then knot the corners of the sheets together as if the ghosts were holding hands.