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Halloween/Spooky Disco Decorations on Large Scale
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Tired_Mom
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Hoping some of you can help me with this as you seem to have such good ideas. We are doing a spooky disco for the infant school at halloween and I have got the fun job of organising decorations on a minute budget.
I have looked at the other threads about halloween but most seem to be about food or decorations on a small scale. The hall is quite large, bold paint and also fairly cluttered so things need to be big and bold to stand out.
I won't be able to hang anything from the ceiling as it is too high and also have to be careful on the image, i.e. it needs to be more spooky than halloween, so that nobody is offeneded, if that makes sense.
I am very happy to paint, glue whatever and will also be able to use school resources.
Thanks for reading.
I have looked at the other threads about halloween but most seem to be about food or decorations on a small scale. The hall is quite large, bold paint and also fairly cluttered so things need to be big and bold to stand out.
I won't be able to hang anything from the ceiling as it is too high and also have to be careful on the image, i.e. it needs to be more spooky than halloween, so that nobody is offeneded, if that makes sense.
I am very happy to paint, glue whatever and will also be able to use school resources.
Thanks for reading.
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It is a shame but in my children's primary school, the current Parish Priest feels strongly about Halloween and we are no longer able to have the fun of a disco for it anymore.
This is what we used to do. We made a lot of of decorations out of black bin bags as these cling to painted walls or you can use blue tack. Hissing cats, bats, spiders. A black crescent shaped moon with bats circling around looked good. We made Jack O Lanterns by cutting scarey faces in pumpkins and using tea lights in them. These were placed near the Tuck shop for health and safety reasons. We filled disposable gloves (got from Medical) with a red coloured squash and froze them. We had big round bowls (purchased from local cheap shop) full of red squash and the severed bloodied looking hands floated in them. We made full length black crepe streamers to hang down from the entrance door, and put spiders on them. We made 6 ft black skeletons, backed with reflective paper and purchased a lot of reflective Jack O lantern baloons which we hung on the walls. We got old white sheets from the charity shop and used these over a balloon to make several floating ghosts. We made a mummy out a cardboard lino tube and toilet paper. We covered the tables in black paper table cloths with glow in the dark spiders scattered on them. We also purchased a few sets of cheap fairy lights and hung them on the walls, so we did not have to use the main lights. We bought the spiders webs (about £1) and stretched it about to amke cob webs. A ball of black wool with black pipe cleaners out of it makes great hanging spiders.0 -
We made a Mummy and Witch Last year along the lines of making a GUY for bonfire night.
Used old Jeans and Shirt to make the body(Adult Size), Made a big head out of a carrier bag stuffed with newspaper.
For the mummy we just wrapped it in cheapo Loo Roll, and stuck a couple of cheapo Haloween Eyeball decs for the eyes.
For the Witch, we made the body and used black bin liners for the dress and cape, bought a cheapo witch hat (One of the ones with a bit of hair at the back) and nose and broom.
I'm sure you could make more spooky people (dracula, Zombie etc..) and mini ones too (Using kids Clothes)
They looked a treat sat on the chairs in the house.
We also made paper chains using Black and Orange paper, and eye balls out of ping pong balls (Just drew on them).
Have a look in the local £shops, Poundland have got some haloween stuff out already.
You could also try cutting headstones out of card board and have a grave yard with some ghosties floating around.
HTH:D:D:D:D
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Those are great idea, thank you so much. It is such as shame that you are no longer allowed to put the disco on, it is why we have to call it a spooky disco though and be careful to keep away from witches etc.
I'm sure though that a lot of the girls we be dressed as them.
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Just found this Idea
Get a GREAT BIG sponge. Like the ones they sell to wash cars with. Cut out a huge footprint form. Pour some washable paint into a flat container. Dip your sponge in the paint. Wipe off excess paint! Remember you just want to leave an impression. Next, sponge onto to your sidewalk creating a path to the door. Wash off later with a little dish soap and the outside water hose.
From this Website:
http://members.tripod.com/~AngieCooks/Halloween/HalloweenDecor.html
hth:D:D:D:D
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I've used very large sheets of corrugated cardboard to make silhouettes of cats, haunted houses,ghosts, moon, bats, tombstones and pumpkins to decorate walls this year.
I got cardboard from skips around the local industrial estate, esp car showroom places, some are the size of big freezers0
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