Fresh Harvest for DIY-ers
Make DIY tin can jack-o'-lantern luminaries for Halloween: freeze, punch, paint and light them safely with LED tea lights. Materials, steps and safety tips.
Make a glowing cardboard haunted house in under an hour: materials, cutting windows, tissue paper glow, black paint, and tube stands, plus safety tips.
Make a Halloween paper bat wall swarm from black cardstock: print a template, cut, fold the wings and tape up a flying flock. Supplies, tips and layout ideas.
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Make zombie hands for your Halloween yard: pour concrete into gloves for grave-rising hands, or build a bucket zombie with PVC. Supplies, steps and tips.
Make DIY Halloween silhouettes two ways: jigsaw plywood yard cutouts on stakes, or poster board and vinyl window shadows. Materials, steps and weatherproofing.
Make Halloween potion bottles from recycled jars: aged apothecary bottles, herb-filled mini potions and layered glitter potions, with safe liquid fills.
Make a creepy Halloween scarecrow two ways: a tall PVC and burlap corn stalker, or a taped-branch rotting corpse. Supply lists, steps and yard setup tips.
Build a lightweight DIY Halloween cemetery fence from PVC pipe and furring strips: materials, cut list, assembly steps, aging paint tips and how to anchor it.
Build a life-size grim reaper for your yard: PVC frame, chicken wire shaping, burlap or gauze cloak and monster mud finish, plus a base that keeps it standing.