How-Tos
Spookify Your Home’s Halloween Decorations
Give your guests the fright of their lives!
You’ve selected the scary finger-foods, picked out the games, and sent out the invitations. Now, it’s time to think about transforming your humble abode into a haunting experience. Look no further than the roll of duct tape in your toolbox to create decorations that are sure to give your guests a fright. Below are some creepy ideas:
Step 1
Worried about the water rings left on your coffee table from bubbling mugs of bug juice? Simply create a small fabric circle out of duct tape to make coasters that are sure to clean up! Make a larger, matching, fabric circle to place under the punch bowl to help catch spills and splatters.
Step 2
Turn your front yard into a haunted graveyard with simple-to-make duct tape tombstones.
· Cut cardboard into tombstone shapes and cover them with silver Duck Tape®.
· The duct tape makes for an authentic look and it’s weatherproof!
· To complete, add names with a marker or black Duck Tape.*
Step 3
Fold black and orange Duck Tape® over itself, sticky side to sticky side, to create streamers to string throughout rooms and in doorways.
Step 4
A giant spider web is a great party decoration that can easily be created by twisting gray or black Duck Tape® strips (sticky side out for an authentic web characteristic) and stringing them in web form over doors and windows.
· For an added scare, cover two Styrofoam balls (or wadded up newspaper) with black duct tape to form the body of a spider.
· Attach eight legs made out of rolled black or silver Duck Tape®, and use red Duck Tape® for the eyes.*
Step 5
Too late to get a piñata for your party? Never!
· Insert small candies into several balloons and blow them up.
· Duck Tape® the balloons together into whatever shape you choose.
· Hang the candy-filled beast from the ceiling.
· Blindfold contestants and have them hit the balloon beast with a stick until it spills its contents, one body cavity at a time.*
Step 6
Use your lamps to create a dimly lit and eerie ambiance. Use Duck Tape® to make a ghost pattern stencil on the lens of a flashlight and project ghost images on the walls throughout the night.*
Step 7
If you don’t have time to carve your pumpkin, or if you don’t want the mess, try this:
· Simply cut a pair of eyes, a nose and a mouth out of Duck Tape® and stick them on your chosen gourd.
· This will allow you to change the face or expression on your pumpkin from day to day.
· Using duct tape is also a good way to test your design before you actually cut it into the pumpkin.
Step 8
To really scare your guests, create a giant bat using black Duck Tape® and crumpled newspaper.
· Cut wings out of a black duct tape fabric and tape them onto a body made of crumpled newspaper covered with duct tape.
· To keep the wings up, tape a coat hanger to them.
· Hang your giant bat with black thread to create the illusion that it’s flying.*
Step 9
Make guests part of your spooky décor by hosting a costume contest.
· Encourage guests to come dressed in Duck Tape® duds that fright or amuse, and offer fun prizes for the best and most unique costumes.
· From wigs to full costumes, Duck Tape® offers guests creativity on a roll.*
*Adapted with permission from The Original Duct Tape Halloween Book, by Jim and Tim, the Duct Tape Guys, published by Workman Publishing, New York, N.Y., www.workman.com
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Thats really cool! Way to get spooky!!!!
superduck1 Date Added: 09/26/2010 01:45:00 p
These were also some really great tips for Halloween. or for other occasional parties.
juswakiforduckbrand Date Added: 03/05/2011 11:37:00 p
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the blaze orange is so bright when you open it!! Especially the shhets of it!! great ideas!!
sweetreesee Date Added: 03/24/2011 05:40:00 p
orange is the first color of duct tape :)
ducttapeninja12 Date Added: 03/25/2011 06:10:00 p
great tips!
blueredducktape10 Date Added: 05/20/2011 01:44:00 p
well it would be better if u had pics to show us .its better than justa roll of duck tape
lemlime Date Added: 07/26/2011 07:38:00 p
This is the best duct tape ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shelbythebest Date Added: 02/24/2013 02:05:16 p