Clip-on Bats and Using Dry Ice
Two Terrifying Ideas for Haunting Your House for Halloween
Oct 4, 2008
Clip-on Bats
As creepy as it appears, a gathering of bats suspended from the highest spaces of your home can be a great way to welcome guests-if you're hosting a Halloween party. You can also attach these clip-on bats onto bushes or tree branches to greet the trick-or-treaters.
TECHNIQUE
Making Clip-on Bats
Materials:
- Template (below), or make your own
- Pencil
- Oak tag
- Scissors
- White pencil
- Black construction paper
- Pushpin or mini hole punch
- Glue stick
- Medium black binder clips
- Craft glue
Directions:
- Draw a bat or trace the template (below) onto a piece of oak tag. Cut out the tracing.
- Use the oak tag template to trace bats onto black construction paper with the white pencil; you will need two bat cutouts for each binder clip. Cut out each bat.
- Use the pushpin or hole punch to create eyes in each cutout. Then, use the glue stick to attach two bat cutouts together at wingtips.
- Place a dab of craft glue onto the black portion on each side of the binder clip. Carefully slip the open binder clip between two bat cutouts. Press bats to binder clip for a few seconds, until glue holds.
Clip-on Bats Template
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Dry Ice
To obtain the ultimate ghoulish effect with your Halloween decor, consider adding dry ice. The eerie, smoky effect it yields conjures up images of foggy bogs, bubbling cauldrons and the murky landscape surrounding a haunted house. It's an easy way to add an eerie element to your Halloween decor.
Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide that's been frozen to 109 degrees below zero. Since the extreme cold can burn your skin, it's imperative to wear thick, heavy gloves when handling dry ice. To create the mist, pour hot water on the dry ice; the hotter you make the water, the greater the amount of mist you'll produce. When the smoke starts to decrease, you can recharge the dry ice by stirring it up or adding more water.
A word of caution: Don't put the dry ice directly into drinks. Dry ice is poisonous, and you certainly don't want to go quite that far on Halloween. To locate distributors in your area, consult your local Yellow Pages under the category "dry ice."
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