Spooky Ghosts

Just like we did with our family of pumpkins the other week, we have created a family of ghosts to add to our Halloween decorations.

 For a household that goes through more than 4 gallons of milk PER week, it seemed like an obvious choice for some cheap Halloween decorations. 

 

Things you need:

milk containers

black permanent marker

cutting shears/sharp scissors to cut hole in bottom

LED tea lights (or a string of white xmas lights)

 

To get started, make sure you rinse out the milk containers well & allow them to dry out.  If not, when you cut a hole in the bottom it will be messy.

 Although this Halloween decoration was done primarily me, I had the kids draw the ghost face they wanted me to put on their milk container.  Not only did they design it & had fun doing that, the completed ghost was much more personal because they helped create it.

 

I'll give you one guess which one Thomas did?

How 'bout Abbigail?

{Answers: T is the far right.  A is the center one}

 

Once the faces are drawn on using the black marker, be sure to let it dry before cutting a hole in the bottom of the milk container for the light.

 We decided to buy a pack of LED tea lights, but you can easily use a string of xmas lights for each milk container.  I guess I was just too lazy to go dig out my holiday decorations in the middle of October.  A little suggestion though if you use a string of lights - cut your hole low on the back side of the container so the milk container will not be sitting on the cord.

 Even during the day, our Spooky Ghosts look great in the windows.  Surprisingly, we have gotten a lot of great comments from the neighbors & kids who walk by.

 But they look especially spooky at night when they are glowing in the dark while watching everyone go by.

 

Happy Halloween decorating everyone!