Spookifying the House and Felt Pillows

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Video: Check out these great Halloween ideas for your home!
Turn your house into a Halloween-themed space with these ideas, including easy felt pillows!
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These flickering, spooky-faced candles are made by taping a solid piece of vellum to a glass container, and then cutting a face out of a second piece with a matte knife.
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Make pumpkin and bat garlands by folding tissue paper, and then cut out the traced shape, leaving some of the fold to hold them together.
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For a Halloween centerpiece, hang tiny bats, pumpkins and ghosts made of craft foam from string or thread from fallen branches in pottery or a vase.
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Tear the edges off an orange paper plate, and then hot-glue it to a black one so the effect stands out. The same look works well for cups!
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Fill orange gift bags with treats, and then close the top with green ribbon. Add twisted green pipe cleaners to finish the effect. If you squish them around just right, they look like little pumpkins.
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Dye pretzel dough green and stick an almond in one end to look like a fingernail. Bake them as directed and they come out looking like spooky fingers!
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Add a few Halloween-themed pillows to a couch or chair covered in a sheet to make your living room come alive for this fun holiday!
Felt Pillows

Materials:

felt
fabric glue
pillow form
scissors
measuring tape
white fabric marker

Steps:

1. Measure the pillow form and cut a rectangle of felt that measures one inch higher and double the width, plus four inches for overlap and seams.
2. Sew the short-end seams, and then fold the fabric end over, creating the overlap in the middle of the back. Mark along the fold lines, and then find the center of the front face of the pillow cover.

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3. Glue the desired holiday design to the front center (figure A). Fold the pillow cover on the fold lines with the right sides together (this will cover the design temporarily). Pin along the top and bottom edges, and then sew the openings closed.
4. Turn the pillow cover right side out, and then tuck the pillow form inside.
Also in this Episode
Special Presentation : Episode HRRS2-H04
•Blueberry Cluster Costume
•Foam Tombstones
•Metal Halloween Lanterns
•Bat Costume
•Floating Jack-O'-Lantern
•Ghoulish Ghosts
•Spaghetti and Meatballs Costume
•Witch Cauldron Candy Holder
•Spooky Garland
•Pet Costume
•Spookifying the House and Felt Pillows
•Daffodil Costume
•Haunted House Centerpiece
•Trick-or-Treat Bags